L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Light is the chaser away of darkness. Shade is the obstruction of light”
“Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.”
Source: The Best Read Naturalist
“Light is the foundation of sight.”
“Light is the in-utterable name of God; the YHWH form. It is the emotional life of a bee and the distance to Icarus, the farthest visible star. It is the finding of compassion amidst tyranny, the networked communication between trees, and the whale song. Light is woven through the gauze of grief and is “the limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns” (John Lennon). It is what Catholic theologians called “the inexpressible, the incomprehensible, the invisible, the ungraspable, the thing we cannot conceive” (John Chrysostom) . “Tell me, if you have understanding. What is the way to the place where the light is distributed?” (Job 38:4) And unable to answer, in dumb obliviousness, instead, we point at the Sun”
Source: THE MAP: Archetypes of the Major Arcana
“Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“Light is the most important person in the picture.”
“Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connection our ancestors had with anything beyond Earth. Follow the light and we can journey from the confines of our planet to other worlds that orbit the Sun without ever dreaming of spacecraft. To look up is to look back in time, because the ancient beams of light are messengers from the Universe's distant past.”
Source: Wonders of the Universe
“Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter; wood, metal, stone, or clay to the sculptor.”
Source: Photographic seeing
“Light is the rose. Darkness is the thorn. Light becomes pronounced because of the darkness it emerged from; dawn is pronounced because of the night, just like a rose is pronounced because of the thorn.”
“Light is the shadow of God.”
Source: Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall
“Light is the spirit of love.”
“Light is the symbol of truth.”
Source: Poems
“Light is the task where many share the toil.”
“Light is the world's emperor.”
“Light is therefore color.”
“Light is time reflecting on time.”
Source: A Draft of Shadows and Other Poems
“Light is time thinking about itself.”
“Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one the other disappears.”
Source: A Year of Miracles: Daily Devotions and Reflections
“Light is undiminishable, eternal and omni-present. In every religion that existed these qualities have been recognized as divine. So that we are forced to the conclusion that light, actual sensible light, is indeed the direct vehicle of divinity: it is the consciousness of God.”
“Light is used when it is dark, but if we brighten up our lives, we'll not need the light”
Source: Ventures of Gem Land-3: The Alchemic Presage
“Light is warmer than darkness.”
“Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.”
Source: Table-talk: To which are added Imaginary conversations of Pope and Swift
“Light it up, bitch.'
'Light it up, asshole,' ...”
Source: House of Earth and Blood
“Light it up, Bryce!' -- Danika
Then Bryce was laughing and sobbing as she screamed, 'LIGHT IT UP, DANIKA! LIGHT IT UP! LIGHT IT UP! LIGHT IT UP!'
And soul to soul with the friend whom she had not forgotten, the friend who had not forgotten her, even in death, Bryce made the Drop.”
Source: House of Earth and Blood
“Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.”
“Light
jumping out of window
is staring the dark
from afar.”
“Light knows no bigotry, wind knows no discrimination, rain knows no snobbery, crops know no segregation.”
Source: Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty
“Light, light.”
“Light Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light.”
Source: Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950
“Light like thin grey soup seeped through the windows. The door opened and Mrs. Dark came in, followed by her sister, who had no head, only the white bone of her spine protruding from her raggedly severed neck.”
Source: Clockwork Prince
“Light like this does not exist, but we wish it did. We wish the sun could make us young and beautiful, we wish our clothes could glisten and ripple against our skins, most of all, we wish that everyone we knew could be brightened simply by our looking at them, as are the maid with the letter and the soldier with the hat.”
Source: Girl, Interrupted
“Light lost in dark.
Dark died in light.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.”
Source: Max
“Light loves windows because light can pass through them! Wisdom also looks for windows, not walls, because wisdom means nothing if it can't get inside!”
“Light makes photography. Embrace light.”
“Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”
“light makes shadow. Truth makes lies.”
Source: Words of Radiance
“Light makes you see beautiful things, darkness is beautiful itself.”
“Light matters should be dealt with seriously. Serious matters should be dealt with lightly.”
“Light may be shed on man and his origins.”
“Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily”
“Light may feel like darkness at first, dawn may feel like night at first, diamonds may feel like dust at first, for growth begins from where you are broken at first.”
“Light may seem at times to be an impertinent intruder, but it is always beneficial in the end.”
Source: Christianity and Liberalism
“Light means knowledge in the Greek language it can also be translated as illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding and wisdom”
“Light means nothing to a blind man.”
“Light might be absent for a moment, but it is absence that evidences existence.”
“Light = mind = life = energy = motion = information = numbers = math. That’s the secret of existence. Have you seen the light?”
Source: Causation and the Principle of Sufficient Reason
“Light moves differently underground.”
Source: Underground Echoes: Field Edition: A Short Memoir of Grief, Wilderness, and Return
“Light must be saved for those moments when the night is dark, when the moon doesn't appear in the sky.”
Source: फरक [Pharak]
“Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.”