What Light Quotes

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

Seek Unity and you will find neither Unity nor Truth.Seek the light of truth, and you will find Unity and Truth.

I could live in the woods with thee in sight, Where never should human foot intrude: Or with thee find light in the darkest night, And a social crowd in solitude.

Just be the same person you are in the dark that you are in the light.

In this Music [the singing of the angels in harmony] the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible the song of the Ainur,and they beheld it as a light in the darkness.

You have to see human rights as an all-embracing concept. It could be something that would unite the world, if it could only be seen in that light.

Is not Fire a Body heated so hot as to emit Light copiously? For what else is a red hot Iron than Fire? And what else is a burning Coal than red hot Wood?

For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating for us, however briefly, our deep meanings.

I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.

Men look to the East for the dawning things, for the light of a raising sun But they look to the West, to the crimson West, for the things that are done, are done.

Invoking removes darkness and brings forth radiant lights.

It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.

The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.

Play the man, Mastre Ridley; we shall this day light such a cndle, by God's grace in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

That old star that you been wishin' on is shining mighty bright, but it's the fire inside your heart that's gonna lead you to the light.

Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night.

As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.

When you go to a bar that has a black light, everybody looks cool. Except for me, because I was under the impression that the mustard stain came out.

A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.

My wife is a light eater. As soon as it's light, she starts to eat.

I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

I link dar's many a slaveholder'll git to Heaven. Dey don't know no better. Dey acts up to de light dey hab.

Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.

Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a light bulb.

The speed of light sucks.

I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of modern scientific knowledge.

The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!

It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

The only whole heart is a broken one because it lets the light in.

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.

We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light skin. It's just how it is.

From toil he wins his spirits light, From busy day the peaceful night; Rich, from the very want of wealth, In heaven's best treasures, peace and health.

Joy adapts and changes, but it always endures, even as a flicker of light born of our personal certainty that, when everything is said and done, we are infinitely loved.

That's what all painting is about, it”s space and light occupied by human presences.

See yourself and others through the eyes of an angel and you will see a beautiful world that is light, bright, and hopeful.

You can dream the American Dream But you sleep with the lights on And wake up with a scream

Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.

Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more certain than deduction.

Nothing glows brighter than the heart awakened to the unseen light of love that lives within it.

Your task? To work with all the passion of your being to acquire an inner light.

The art of lighting the stage consists of putting light where you want it and taking it away from where you don't want it.

Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial.

Just as darkness is born of the absence of light, the shadow side of our collective experience is born of ignorance of the underlying truth of the unity of life.

I think 'Breaking Bad' is brilliant. Good drama in the U.S. is also so funny and blurs the line between light and dark.

Where there is darkness, let there be light.