Light

Have you seen it already? Here are some quotes and proverbs about light.

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Daylight follows a dark night.

Each small candle lights a corner of the dark.
Roger Waters

Evenings are the beautifully sweet spot between the harsh light of the day and the dead darkness of night.
(unknown author)

From the ashes, a fire shall be woken. A light from the shadow shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken. The crownless again shall be king.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring

Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.
Pablo Neruda

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Desmond Tutu

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
Baz Luhrmann

It is foolish to show glowworms by candle light.

It was as if a globe had been filled with moonlight and hung before them in a net woven of the glint of frosty stars.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 16 - A Thief in the Night
About the Arkenstone.

Light is so empowering that it serves as the metaphor of choice for a superior intellectual and spiritual state: enlightenment.
Steven Pinker
Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Light the lamp of thy love.
Rabindranath Tagore

Moonlight is sculpture.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Jean Paul Richter

Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature.
Henry Moore

The darkness of night cannot stop the light of morning.

The grass was greener
The light was brighter
With friends surrounded
The nights of wonder
Pink Floyd
Source: High Hopes Lyrics

The light of the firefly is sufficient for itself only.

The moon gives us light but no heat.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller

What is true by firelight is not always true by daylight.

When walking through the 'valley of shadows,' remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.
Austin O'Malley




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