4,631 Quotes About Light

In the evening, in the moon, we see only You reflected through our sibling. In the midday sun again, we see only You. The grace of the Cosmos reflected only the beauty of Your Light, For we are in the Season of Bealtaine ... Oh that every season might be Bealtaine that we may see Your Light plainly, but no! If all seasons were the same, we would miss You in Your fullness ... for every season has its purpose, and every time its lessons.

A voice said to me, in summer language: Dottie, you are blessedAnd I felt the yellow light of the sun eating my face

The callous walls you have raisedare going to collapseunder your very eyes.

Du tilmed og aldrig saa tiilig staar op, At dig jo før høyt over Biergenes Top, Er runden Aurora den røde. End sver jeg, og vidner, at hvilken den DrengSom opstaar og gaar sig med Solen i Seng, Hand næppelig skal sig forsove; O! Sommer kierkommen til alles Behag,Paa hvilken at Natten lyser som Dag, Og Fugler sin Skabermand love.

To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.

The mystical non-sense of afterlife indeed gives solace to the mind in times of weakness, but why should the mind let its weakness be the fuel for primitiveness in the first place!

The heart is as transparent as the depths of the ocean; One can only see until the light is gone.

Knowledge is a light burden. Ignorance...a heavy bliss.

Literature is light.