Quotes about lighting
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“Let nothing dim the light that shines from within”
Variant: Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
“Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?”
Source: A Voice in the Wind
"Nathaniel Hawthorne" in Library of the World's Best Literature, vol. XII (1897), ed. Charles Dudley Warner.
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
Source: Awakened
“Nothing is hidden that will not be made known; nothing is secret that will not come to light.”
Source: The Lost Symbol
Optimism
Poetry quotes, Poems of Pleasure (1900)
Context: I find a rapture linked with each despair,
Well worth the price of anguish. I detect
More good than evil in humanity.
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes,
And men grow better as the world grows old.
“There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it.”
Source: Kit's Wilderness
Source: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
Source: A Streetcar Named Desire
“In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.”
Source: The Library at Night
Source: Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy
“Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.”
“Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The sun is gone
But I have a light”
Dumb.
Song lyrics, In Utero (1993)
Source: The Northern Farm: A Glorious Year on a Small Maine Farm
“Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greates gems of light.”
Source: Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living
“There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.”
“Lighting new cigarettes,
pouring more
drinks.
It has been a beautiful
fight.
Still
is.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Speak, Memory: A Memoir (1951)
Context: The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour).
“I'm a born entertainer, when I open the fridge and the light comes on, I burst into song.”
“Green was the silence, wet was the light,
the month of June trembled like a butterfly.”
Source: 100 Love Sonnets
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“We are all broken—that’s how the light gets in.”
This quotation was not crafted by Ernest Hemingway. Its exact genesis is uncertain, but QI hypothesizes that the 1929 statement by Hemingway and the 1992 lyric by Leonard Cohen both strongly influenced the evolution of the expression and its ascription. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/11/16/light/
As quoted in Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review by ? Vol. IV, No. 8 (1847) by Dallas Theological Seminary, p. 107
Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), Ch. 43.
Source: The Adventures of Huck Finn
Context: So there ain't nothing more to write about, and I am rotten glad of it, because if I'd a knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn't a tackled it and aint't agoing to no more. But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before.
Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front
Source: The Museum of Innocence
18 December 1831
Table Talk (1821–1834)
Source: The Power and the Glory
J'accuse! (1898)
Context: These military tribunals have, decidedly, a most singular idea of justice.
This is the plain truth, Mr. President, and it is terrifying. It will leave an indelible stain on your presidency. I realise that you have no power over this case, that you are limited by the Constitution and your entourage. You have, nonetheless, your duty as a man, which you will recognise and fulfill. As for myself, I have not despaired in the least, of the triumph of right. I repeat with the most vehement conviction: truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it. Today is only the beginning, for it is only today that the positions have become clear: on one side, those who are guilty, who do not want the light to shine forth, on the other, those who seek justice and who will give their lives to attain it. I said it before and I repeat it now: when truth is buried underground, it grows and it builds up so much force that the day it explodes it blasts everything with it. We shall see whether we have been setting ourselves up for the most resounding of disasters, yet to come.
“There was no light at the end of the tunnel--or if there was, it was an oncoming train.”
Variant: He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“Turn to the light. Don't fear the shadow it creates.”
"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility — I welcome it." is one of seven quotes inscribed on the walls at the gravesite of John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery.
"The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it — and the glow from that fire can truly light the world." is one of seven quotes inscribed on the walls at the gravesite of John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery.
"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." is one of seven quotes inscribed on the walls at the gravesite of John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery.
It has been reported at various places on the internet that in JFK's Inaugural address, the famous line "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country", was inspired by, or even a direct quotation of the famous and much esteemed writer and poet Khalil Gibran. Gibran in 1925 wrote in Arabic a line that has been translated as:
::Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country?
::If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in a desert.
However, this translation of Gibran is one that occurred over a decade after Kennedy's 1961 speech, appearing in A Third Treasury of Kahlil Gibran (1975) edited by Andrew Dib Sherfan, and the translator most likely drew upon Kennedy's famous words in expressing Gibran's prior ideas. For a further discussion regarding the quote see here.
1961, Inaugural Address
Context: In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility — I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it — and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”
“And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.”
Source: The Owl and the Pussycat
“Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.”
Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have
Source: The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
“One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.”
“Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.”
Source: Letters and Papers from Prison
“One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.”
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“the power of philosophy floats through my head.. light like a feather, heavy as lead.”
“Even this late it happens:
the coming of love, the coming of light.”
Source: Selected Poems
Malcolm X: The Man and his Times, edited by John Henrik Clarke and published by Africa World Press in 1990, p. 304 http://books.google.de/books?id=43NsDThPEzgC&q=We+need+more+light+about+each+other.+Light,+creates+understanding,+understanding+creates+love,+love+creates+patience,+and+patience+creates+unity.+Once+we+have+more+knowledge+(light)+about+each+other,+we+will+stop+condemning+each+other+and+a+United+front+will+be+brought+about&dq=We+need+more+light+about+each+other.+Light,+creates+understanding,+understanding+creates+love,+love+creates+patience,+and+patience+creates+unity.+Once+we+have+more+knowledge+(light)+about+each+other,+we+will+stop+condemning+each+other+and+a+United+front+will+be+brought+about&hl=de&sa=X&ei=RhSgT_XXCsHVtAaW_sGlAQ&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA
Context: Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past. Therefore we need enlightenment. We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity. Once we have more knowledge (light) about each other, we will stop condemning each other and a United front will be brought about.