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Light |
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Quotations
 | If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train. — Robert Lowell, 1917-1977, American poet 11 likes |
 | As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. — Karl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist 9 likes |
 | An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? — René Descartes, 1596-1650, French philosopher 8 likes |
 | The wound is the place where the Light enters you. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 8 likes |
 | In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 7 likes |
| Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon. How much it can fill your room depends on its windows. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 7 likes |
 | The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. — Gloria Leonard, 1940-2014, American pornographic actress 6 likes |
| If light is in your heart, you will find your way home. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 5 likes |
 | In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 4 likes |
 | Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. — Thomas Fuller, 1608-1661, English thinker 4 likes |
 | Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. — Tagore, 1861-1941, Indian poet, Nobel 1913 3 likes |
 | In full light we are not even a shadow. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 3 likes |
| Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 2 likes |
 | The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on. — Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, American poet 2 likes |
 | The truth is a torch that sheds light in the fog, without dispelling it. — Claude Adrien Helvétius, 1715-1771, French philosopher 2 likes |
 | Death: the tunnel at the end of the light. — Paul Carvel, 1964-, Belgian author of maxims 1 likes |
 | The soul of the diamond is the light. |
| There is in Plato a light always ready to show itself, and which never shows itself. |
 | What is to give light must endure burning. |
 | It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone. |
 | Love prefers twilight to daylight. |
 | The light of Greece opened my eyes, penetrated my pores, expanded my whole being. |
 | The closer you get to the light, the more you know yourself full of shadows. |
 | Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. |
 | You need the dark in order to show the light. |
Latin Quotes
 | It is better to illuminate than merely to shine. Maius est illuminare quam lucere solum. — Saint Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274, Italian Dominican friar & philosopher 23 likes |
 | Light after the dark. Post tenebras lux. — Medieval Sundial Motto (from the Vulgate, Job 17:12.) 13 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | God and Nature met in light. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 2 likes |
 | But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
| There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes. |
Funny Quotes
 | Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 14 likes |
 | Miami Beach is where neon goes to die. |
| He’d been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower. |
Non-English Quotes
 | Mehr Licht! More light! — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher (his last words) 8 likes |
