31 Inspiring Quotes About Light

It tells us that hundreds of billions of light years have passed, and creation has always been exposed to an unprecedented mixture of matter and radiation in all its languages. Often our own light goes out and is rekindled by another person’s fire. Growing of us has reason to think with tremendous thanks from all who light the fire in us. We have selected 34 light quotes about light sayings and light picture quotes

1. “Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.” — Taylor Swift

2. “Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by God given to lift from earth our low desire.” — Lord Byron

3. “Because the theory of quantum mechanics could explain all of chemistry and the various properties of substances, it was a tremendous success. But still, there was the problem of the interaction of light and matter.” — Richard P. Feynman

4. “What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having to look at a little dot of light through a telescope because we can calculate what the atoms in the stars should do in most circumstances.” — Richard P. Feynman

5. “Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!” — Alexander Pope

6. “It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.” — Aeschylus

7. “I don’t think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You’re always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it’ll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it’s always meant to be something. So, to me, there’s no practicing; there’s only editing and publishing or not publishing.” — Steve Martin

8. “At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” — Albert Schweitzer

9. “Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!” — Taylor Swift

10. “The sun is gone, but I have a light.” — Kurt Cobain

11. “Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.” — Thomas Merton

12. “To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.” — Thomas Merton

13. “Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.” — Tom Robbins

14. “Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any God’s presence in his life. He is the 21st-century man.” — David Bowie

15. “They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.” — Samuel Beckett

16. “Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.” — Nikola Tesla

17. “The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.” — Thomas Hobbes

18. “Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.” — Pope Francis

19. “We must always walk in the presence of the Lord, in the light of the Lord, always trying to live in an irreprehensible way.” — Pope Francis

20. “I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.” — Pope Francis

21. “I wear black because I’m comfortable with it. But then in the summertime when it’s how I’m comfortable in light blue.” — Johnny Cash

22. “From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.” — Pope Francis

23. “I am on until I am dead, like a light bulb.” — Henry Rollins

24. “The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has a direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.” — Audre Lorde

25. “If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.” — Henry Rollins

26. “I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was pure hell.” — Audre Lorde

27. “Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.” — Kurt Vonnegut

28. “When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.” — Keanu Reeves

29. “The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community – and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.” — Richard M. Nixon

30. “A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.” — Florence Nightingale

31. “Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.” — Michel de Montaigne