Quotes about light page 11
Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.”
Garth Nix book Mister Monday
Source: Mister Monday
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.”
Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.”
Francine Rivers book A Voice in the Wind
Source: A Voice in the Wind
David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor
On the Alex Jones Radio show, as quoted in "David Lynch Questions 9/11 On National U.S. Radio" in Prison Planet (25 January 2007)
Source: Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
Context: There's so many problems in our world, so much negativity. Don't worry about the darkness — turn on the light and the darkness automatically goes. Ramp up the light of unity within — help do that for yourself, help do that for the world and then we're really doing something, we're doing something that brings that light of unity.
Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author
"Investigations of a Dog"
The Complete Stories (1971)
Source: The Great Wall of China and Other Stories
Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time
Source: A Wrinkle in Time
“Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
“The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.”
Anne McCaffrey (1926–2011) American-Irish novelist
“Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.”
Madeleine L'Engle A Ring of Endless Light
Source: A Ring of Endless Light (1980)
Eloisa James (1962) American academic
Source: When Beauty Tamed the Beast
“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
“The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.”
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
“Go forth and light the lights of war”
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough”
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.”
Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina
Variant: All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
Source: Anna Karenina
Marisha Pessl Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853)
Source: Bartleby the Scrivener
“Numb the dark and you numb the light.”
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Katrina Kenison American writer
Source: The Gift of an Ordinary Day: A Mother's Memoir
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Gifts
“He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
“Remember that each light between sunrise and sunset is worth dying for at least once.”
Tad Williams (1957) novelist
Source: Shadowrise
Terri Blackstock (1957) American writer
Source: Intervention
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
“Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
"Alaska Glaciers: Graphic Description of the Yosemite of the Far Northwest", San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin (part 5 of 11 part series "Notes of a Naturalist") dated 7 September 1879, published 27 September 1879; reprinted as "Baird Glacier" in Letters from Alaska, edited by Robert Engberg and Bruce Merrell (University of Wisconsin Press, 1993), pages 28-32 (at page 31); modified slightly and reprinted in Travels in Alaska http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/travels_in_alaska/ (1915), chapter 5, A Cruise in the Cassiar <br class="br">First lines of the documentary film series " The National Parks: America's Best Idea http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/" by Ken Burns. <br class="br">1910s
Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 40, The Rat Who Wound the Clock
Barbara Taylor Bradford (1933) British author
Source: Her Own Rules
“… only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.”
David Eddings book King of the Murgos
Source: King of the Murgos
Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young
Source: Only the Good Spy Young
“One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle
Source: The Glass Castle
“In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be
The candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer
"Vesalius in Zante (1564)", in North American Review (November 1902), p. 631
Variant: There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.
“Why do men think you can pick love up and re-light it like a candle? Women know when love is over.”
Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Welsh poet and writer
“Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, "Let Newton be!"”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
and all was light.
Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton.
“Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)
Context: Throw away the lights, the definitions,
And say of what you see in the dark
That it is this or that it is that,
But do not use the rotted names.
Context: Throw away the lights, the definitions,
And say of what you see in the dark
That it is this or that it is that,
But do not use the rotted names.
How should you walk in that space and know
Nothing of the madness of space,
Nothing of its jocular procreations?
Throw the lights away. Nothing must stand
Between you and the shapes you take
When the crust of shape has been destroyed.
