"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good."
— P.C. Cast (Betrayed)

"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 (Reaper Man)

"Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light."
— Kate DiCamillo (The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread)

"For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was a light and high beauty forever beyond its reach."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings)

"youre here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world."
— Jesus Christ (Matthew 5:14)*

"May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

"The baby bat
Screamed out in fright,
'Turn on the dark,
I'm afraid of the light.'
"
— Shel Silverstein (Batty)

"When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly."
— Edward Teller

""...Darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good."

~Nyx"
— P.C. Cast (Marked)

"If light is outlawed, then only outlaws will be able to see where they're going."
— Alan Moore (Tomorrow Stories)

"In the heartfelt mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will visit us, to shine on those sitting in darkness, in the shadow of death, to guide our feet to the way of peace."
— Luke 1:78-79

"Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being, in joyful rhythm."
— Madeleine L'Engle

"If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death."
— Pythagoras

"The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining ever brighter till the full light of day."
— Proverbs 4:18

"No, I cant laugh yet. I have to hold it in - Light Yagami"
— Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata

"What can I do, Muslims? I do not know myself.
I am neither Christian nor Jew, neither Magian nor Muslim,
I am not from east or west, not from land or sea,
not from the shafts of nature nor from the spheres of the firmament,
not of the earth, not of water, not of air, not of fire.
I am not from the highest heaven, not from this world,
not from existence, not from being.
I am not from India, not from China, not from Bulgar, not from Saqsin,
not from the realm of the two Iraqs, not from the land of Khurasan.
I am not from the world, not from beyond,
not from heaven and not from hell.
I am not from Adam, not from Eve, not from paradise and not from Ridwan.
My place is placeless, my trace is traceless,
no body, no soul, I am from the soul of souls.
I have chased out duality, lived the two worlds as one.
One I seek, one I know, one I see, one I call.
He is the first, he is the last, he is the outer, he is the inner.
Beyond He and He is I know no other.
I am drunk from the cup of love, the two worlds have escaped me.
I have no concern but carouse and rapture.
If one day in my life I spend a moment without you
from that hour and that time I would repent my life.
If one day I am given a moment in solitude with you
I will trample the two worlds underfoot and dance forever.
O Sun of Tabriz, I am so tipsy here in this world,
I have no tale to tell but tipsiness and rapture."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"In the ultimate stillness
Light penetrates the whole realm;
In the still illumination,
There pervades pure emptiness.
When I look back on the
Phenomenal world,
Everything is just
Like a dream.
"
— Han-shan Te-Ch'ing

"Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark."
— Wallace Stevens

"Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling."
— Margaret Lee Runbeck

"Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his repose, by the calmness of his figure, in which there was no trace of seeking, desiring, imitating, or striving, only light and peace"
— Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha)

"Our dreams are luminous, a cast fire upon the world.
Morning arrives and that's it.
Sunlight darkens the earth."
— Charles Wright

"Light
Light
The visible reminder of Invisible Light."
— T.S. Eliot

"What happens to the drop of wine
That you pour into the sea?
Does it remain itself, unchanged?
It is as if it never existed.
So it is with the soul: Love drinks it in,
It is united with Truth,
Its old nature fades away,
It is no longer master of itself.

The soul wills and yet does not will:
Its will belongs to Another.
It has eyes only for this beauty;
It no longer seeks to possess, as was its wont--
It lacks the strength to possess such sweetness.
The base of this highest of peaks
Is founded on nichil,
Shaped nothingness, made one with the Lord."
— Jacopone Da Todi (The God-Madness)

"We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.
"
— David Weatherford

""Here's another way to put it: You're here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. God is not a secret to be kept. We're going public with this, as public as a city on a hill. If I make you light-bearers, you don't think I'm going to hide you under a bucket, do you? I'm putting you on a light stand. Now that I've put you there on a hilltop, on a light stand—shine! Keep open house; be generous with your lives. By opening up to others, you'll prompt people to open up with God, this generous Father in heaven. "
— Matthew 5:14-16

"In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. "
— Alberto Manguel (The Library at Night)

""Inheritor of a Dying World, we call thee to the Living Beauty. Wanderer in the Wild Darkness, we call thee to the Gentle Light. Long hast thou dwelt in Darkness---Quit the Night and seek the Day.""
— Neophyte Ritual of the Golden Dawn

"To light a candle is to cast a shadow..."
— Ursula K. LeGuin (A Wizard of Earthsea)

"sick of it whatever it's called sick of the names
I dedicate every pore to what's here"
— Ikkyu

"Light is more important than the lantern,
The poem more important than the notebook"
— Nizar Qabbani

"I warn you, the trip will not be easy. Once you choose to walk in the light, your path will lead you places you do not want to go."
— Dave Wolverton (Star Wars: The Courtship of Princess Leia)

"Light is colder when there are parts of it missing."
— Olli Jalonen

"And suddenly the heavy curtains of night were rent asunder and it became light, a strange light; a gleaming breath of perfumed summer nights, a cold, regular radiance of unknown worlds. It was light, the light of the reflections of metal mirrors – an inner light, the light of the soul and of the cosmos."
— Stanislaus Przybyszewski

"Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night; God said, Let Newton be! and all was light."
— Alexander Pope

"It is not questionable that the dark always comes. What is questionable is the fact it blinds us, for there is always light in the world."
— Ambrose Fetch