Quotes of Illumination - somelinesforyou

“ The light of all lights, He is said to be beyond darkness. ”

- Bhagavad Gita

“ And the light shineth in the darkness, and the darkness comprehendeth it not. ”

- John

“ And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. ”

- Bible

“ Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting. ”

- Alan Dean Foster

“ Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars. ”

- J. R. R. Tolkien

“ Run for daylight. ”

- Vince Lombardi

“ He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. ”

- Bible

“ Darkness yields to starlight, to the light of the rising sun, and to the light of the soul. ”

- Dennis Kucinich

“ What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight. ”

- Joseph Joubert

“ Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes. ”

- Blaise Cendrars Sauser

“ Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light — and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau — into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being. ”

- Nadine Gordimer

“ There is strong shadow where there is much light. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ For I light my candle from their torches. ”

- Robert Burton

“ While many a glowworm in the shade Lights up her love torch. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ Stumbling through darkness and racing through light, we have persisted in the creation of a Canadian civilization. ”

- Adrienne Clarkson

“ Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Faith is the little night light that burns in a sick room; as long as it is there, the obscurity is not complete, we turn towards it and await the daylight. ”

- Abbe Henri Huvelin

“ Genius, without talent, is a wild, and beautiful, and erratic meteor; talent, without genius, is a steady light, which lasts long, but never throws a flood of radiance upon earth or sky. ”

- Unknown

“ Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible. ”

- John Milton

“ The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine. ”

- Oprah Winfrey

“ You are welcome to the festival of lights, which reflects the beauty of the fest that good always victory over bad and brightness victory over darkness. ”

- Unknown

“ Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light, Which I must ne'er enjoy? What are the blessings of the sight? Oh, tell your poor blind boy! ”

- Colley Cibber

“ And God made two great lights, great for their use To man, the greater to have rule by day, The less by night, altern. ”

- John Milton

“ And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. ”

- Bible

“ May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out. ”

- J. R. R. Tolkien

“ To light a candle is to cast a shadow. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights. ”

- Marilyn Monroe

“ Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves. ”

- Richard Hooker

“ Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. ”

- Bible
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