quotations about light
Light is God's first law.
VEDA
attributed, Day's Collacon
Against the darkness outer
God's light his likeness takes,
And he from the mighty doubter
The great believer makes.
R. W. GILDER
The New Day
No one can live in the light all the time.
LIBBA BRAY
A Great and Terrible Beauty
Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.
GEORGE DENISON PRENTICE
Prenticeana: Or, Wit and Humor in Paragraphs
Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
BIBLE
John 12:35
More light!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
his dying words, Publications of the English Goethe Society
To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
A Wizard of Earthsea
Children always turn toward the light. O that grown-up people in this would become like little children!
JULIUS CHARLES HARE
Guesses at Truth
When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be [those] who envy and oppose, if it come not first in at their casements.
JOHN MILTON
"Areopagitica", The Prose Works of John Milton
If we prefer darkness better than light, we must be suffered long to dwell in darkness; if we would hasten the time, we must take the light and diffuse it; the light which the few have must be made common to the many.
E. D. MANSFIELD
attributed, Day's Collacon
Nations will certainly go to your light, and kings to the brightness of your shining forth.
BIBLE
Isaiah 60:3
At the darkest moment comes the light.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
The Power of Myth
The best way to see Divine light, is to put out thine own candle.
FRANCIS QUARLES
attributed, Day's Collacon
Life isn't just about darkness or light, rather it's about finding light within the darkness.
LANDON PARHAM
First Night of Summer
After darkness comes the light.
NEPOS
attributed, Day's Collacon
I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.
LIBBA BRAY
A Great and Terrible Beauty
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
PLATO
attributed, Remarks of Famous People
Where there is much light the shade is deepest.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Goetz Von Berlichingen
'Twas a light that made
Darkness itself appear
A thing of comfort.
ROBERT SOUTHEY
The Curse of Kehama
Light seeking light doth light of light beguile:
So, ere you find where light in darkness lies,
Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Love's Labour's Lost