Quotes about light
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George Lincoln Rockwell photo
Morihei Ueshiba photo
Albert Schweitzer photo
Dorothy Thompson photo
Mwanandeke Kindembo photo
Bob Marley photo

“Excuse me while I light my spliff (spliff)
Good God I gotta' take a lift (lift)
From reality I just can't drift (drift)
That's why I am staying with this riff (riff)

Take it easy, easy skanking
Got to take it easy, easy skanking.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

Easy Skanking, from the album Kaya (1978) · Video on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlqB13iJu2o
Song lyrics

Prevale photo

“True friends know how to listen with the heart, evaluate with reason and relate through their experiences. They treasure everything that lights up their eyes and warms their soul.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) I veri amici sanno ascoltare con il cuore, valutare con la ragione e relazionarsi attraverso le proprie esperienze. Fanno tesoro di tutto ciò che illumina i loro occhi e riscalda la loro anima.
Source: prevale.net

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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien photo
Vera Rubin photo
Cassandra Clare photo

“I've never felt so… light.”

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Albert Einstein photo
Milan Kundera photo
Paulo Coelho photo
Jeanette Winterson photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Albert Einstein photo

“As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Variant: As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

Tom Waits photo

“It is better to recognise that we are in darkness than to pretend that we can see the light.”

Hedley Bull (1932–1985) Australian academic

Source: The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics

Simon Armitage photo

“I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Source: The Irrational Season

Francesca Lia Block photo

“There is no light for those who do not know darkness.”

Takehiko Inoue (1967) Japanese artist

Source: Takehiko Inoue Quotes https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/147221.Takehiko_Inoue

Garrison Keillor photo

“Some people have a love of their fellow man in their hearts, and others require a light anesthetic.”

Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer

Source: Life Among the Lutherans

Neal Shusterman photo
Arthur Nersesian photo
Jeanette Winterson photo

“You are a pool of clear water where the light plays”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: Written on the Body

“You are a light that will always guide me, a whisper I'll always strain to hear.”

Lora Leigh (1965) American writer

Source: Maverick

Rick Riordan photo
Gertrude Stein photo
Nicholas Sparks photo
Winston S. Churchill photo
Ray Bradbury photo
Marianne Williamson photo
Patrick Rothfuss photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Franz Kafka photo

“A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.”

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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Variant: Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.

Henry James photo
Nicholas Sparks photo
Justin Cronin photo
Paulo Coelho photo
Charles Bukowski photo
David Foster Wallace photo
Juliet Marillier photo
Arthur Conan Doyle photo

“There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.”

Source: The Hound of the Baskervilles

Lydia Millet photo
Mark Z. Danielewski photo
John Wesley photo

“Light yourself on fire with passion and people will come from miles to watch you burn.”

John Wesley (1703–1791) Christian theologian

As quoted in The Peaceful Path of Prosperity : Practical and Spiritual Approaches to Enrich Your Life with Your Inner Wealth (2001) by Danny Babineaux; not found in any record of Wesley before 2001.
Misattributed
Variant: I set myself on fire and people come to watch me burn.

Patrick Rothfuss photo
Juliet Marillier photo
Laurell K. Hamilton photo
Zadie Smith photo
Cormac McCarthy photo
Jeffrey Eugenides photo
Joseph Conrad photo
Sarah Dessen photo
George Carlin photo
Lorrie Moore photo
Richard Siken photo
Flannery O’Connor photo

“Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Jodi Picoult photo

“You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.”

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Richard Brautigan photo
Alyson Nöel photo
Edith Wharton photo
Haruki Murakami photo
Italo Calvino photo

“One should be light like a bird and not like a feather.”

Italo Calvino (1923–1985) Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels

Source: Six Memos For The Next Millennium

Leonard Cohen photo

“Everything has a crack in it; that's how the light gets in.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

"Anthem"
The Future (1992)
Variant: There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
Source: Selected Poems, 1956-1968
Context: Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.

Richelle Mead photo
Laura Ingalls Wilder photo
Jim Butcher photo
Giordano Bruno photo
Jerry Garcia photo
Robert Jordan photo

“By the Creator at the moment of creation. May we shelter safe beneath the Light, in the Creator’s hand.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

Source: (January 2004), Chapter 1: The Hook. p. 6

Jack Vance photo
Martin Luther King, Jr. photo
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