Light Quotes - Page 11

• Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile . . . I like to work with it so that you feel it physically, so you feel the presence of light inhabiting a space.

  James Turrell

  Powerful, Space, Connections

  James Turrell, Julia Brown, Craig E. Adcock, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1985). “Occluded front, James Turrell”, Lapis Pr

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• You don't have to blow out the other person's light to let your own shine.

  Bernard Baruch

  Blow, Shining, Persons

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• I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  World, Forgotten

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.

  Robert Alden

  Sad, Appreciation, Darkness

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• If when I am able to discover something which has baffled others, I forget Him who revealeth the deep and secret things, and knoweth what is in the darkness and showeth it to us; if I forget that it was He who granted that ray of light to His most unworthy servant, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, Darkness, Secret

  Amy Carmichael (2003). “If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?”, p.32, CLC Publications

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• In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me had said could not be, must not be, and upon which the penalty of death had been placed. Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it, the locomotive of my heart was rushing down a dangerously steep slope, heading for a collision, heedless of the warning red lights that blinked all about me, the sirens and the ells and the screams that filled the air.

  Richard Wright

  Heart, Night, Air

  Richard Wright (1998). “Black Boy”, Turtleback

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  I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.

  Geronimo

  Break Up, Freedom, Native American

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There has never been a time on Earth like we see today. What we need are more ways to experience our interconnectedness - it is a precursor to deep love. So in this quickening light, with the dawn of each new day, let us look for love. Let us no longer struggle. Let us ever become who we most want to be. As we begin to be who we truly are, the world will be a better place.

  John Denver

  Struggle, Deep Love, New Day

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• The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Darkness, Enlightenment

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience”, p.304, First Avenue Editions

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• The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Balance, Shadow, World

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• And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright.

  Omar Khayyam

  Wrath, Taverns, Temples

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.201, University of Virginia Press

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• Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

  Karl Kraus

  Art, Science, Vision

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.

  Emily Dickinson

  Winter, Tunes, Afternoon

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.59, First Avenue Editions

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• What he means by this is that instead of saying you'll "try", you need to "do".
  And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Nelson Mandela

  Motivational, Mean, People

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• Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!

  John Milton

  Essence, Heaven, May

  John Milton, Sarah Siddons (1822). “The Story of Our First Parents: Selected from Milton's Paradise Lost: for the Use of Young Persons”, p.43

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• When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

  Tecumseh

  Good Morning, Strength, Thanksgiving

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  For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.

  Claude Monet

  Life, Change, Stars

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• Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best.

  Ross Turnbull

  Beautiful, Spring, Darkness

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• He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.

  John Milton

  Dark, Soul, Dungeons

  'Comus' (1637) l. 373

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• It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun

  Algernon Sidney

  Sun, Candle

  'Discourses concerning Government' (1698) ch. 2, sect. 23.

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• Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry: "More light." Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlight. Neon. Incandescent. Lights that banish the darkness from our caves, to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's field. Little tiny flashlight for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor... Light is knowledge. Light is life. Light is light.

  Diane Frolov

  Book, Knowledge, Night

  "Northern Exposure". www.imdb.com. 1990-1995.

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• I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

  Muhammad Ali

  Funny, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Jan 18, 2011

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• Sets of lines can say something about the direction and nature of the light. They are used by great fresco painters as a sign for shade.

  John French Sloan

  Lines, Shade, Used

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• No one can live in the light all the time.

  Libba Bray

  Chiaroscuro

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• The light in the North is constantly a thrill for me.

  Wanda Koop

  Thrill

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