Light Quotes

And because also there are many Objects to be met with in the night, which cannot so conveniently be kept perhaps till the day, therefore to procure and cast a sufficient quantity of light on an Object in the night, I thought of, and often used this, Expedient.

Sunlight is painting.

To be the shadow for a moment, to remind the light that it’s real.

You are what it feels like to watch the final silvers of sun fall and die into the silver ocean; tangerine sky giving way to moon-glow and starlight.

Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.

Two lost vessels can’t guide each other home when neither can see light lining the hidden horizon. – lost at sea.

You must have the guts to throw off the chains of modesty and mediocrity in order to be the light that the world needs.

Light can always be found in love.

The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.

What a victory it will be to taste the light again.