Lit Quotes
442 Lit quotes by 364 unique authors
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Ringo had this habit of lighting up two cigarettes, one for Maureen at the same time that he lit his own. I remember thinking it…
— Cynthia Lennon
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Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.
— William Kennedy
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This is the world. Half of it is lit by the sun and the other half remains in darkness. It is the same with life.…
— Unknown Author
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Dimly lit restaurants always make me think they're trying to hide the food.
— Michael Kurland
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What boy my age didn’t dream of fleeing the well-tended lawn and lamp-lit street for the untamed wilderness, where grand adventure awaited on the other…
— Rick Yancey
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Turn away from the world this year and begin to listen. Listen to the whispers of your heart. Look within. Your silent companion has lit…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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We live in a kind of dark age, craftily lit with synthetic light, so that no one can tell how dark it has really gotten.…
— Martin Prechtel
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That which you give to another will become your own sustenance; if you light a lamp for another, your own way will be lit.
— Nichiren
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We're not really afraid to die. We're only afraid of being forgotten. We know that we'll be forgotten, and the idea is unbearable, don't you…
— Karin Fossum
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No matter how long the room has been dark, an hour or a million years, the moment the lamp of awareness is lit the entire…
— Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
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Libraries are magical places. There's nothing quite like strolling the hushed aisles, letting your eye rove along dimly lit shelves. Each spine, each title, seems…
— John Jakes
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The VIP area, which is geared to live entertainment, is a black-lit stage with a neon painting resembling New York City on the walls. It's…
— Unknown Author
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Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace.
— Duff Cooper
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The Holy Night We sate among the stalls at Bethlehem; The dumb kine from their fodder turning them, Softened their horned faces To almost human…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the abs on their…
— Michael Bergin
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Go forth in every direction- for the happiness, the harmony, the welfare of the many. Offer your heart, the seeds of understanding, like a lamp…
— Gautama Buddha
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Extroverts want us to have fun, because they assume we want what they want. And sometimes we do. But "fun" itself is a "bright" word,…
— Laurie Helgoe
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I run down to meet Floriana who is breathless from her hike. She stops in the road, the last light at her back. Prickles of…
— Marlena De Blasi
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In a last violent protest against the hopelessness of imminent death, I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt it transcend that…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Sometimes you say to yourself: the fire in me is going out. But you were not the one who lit that fire. Your faith does…
— Brother Roger
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Homer and Candy passed by the empty and brightly lit dispensary; they peeked into Nurse Angela's empty office. Homer knew better than to peek into…
— John Irving
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Usability is not everything. If usability engineers designed a nightclub, it would be clean, quiet, brightly lit, with lots of places to sit down, plenty…
— Joel Spolsky
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When we sleep the soul is lit up... by many eyes, and with them, we can see everything that we cannot see in the daytime.
— Aeschylus
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Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.
— H.G. Wells
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Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
Who Wrote These Lit Quotes
364 authors contributed a total of 442 Lit Quotes, led by these top contributors: