We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.  —Plato

People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.

           —Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.  The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.             —Felix Adler

Never fear shadows. They simply mean that there’s a light somewhere nearby.

                         —Ruth E. Renkei

The light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

        —Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Light of Lights / Looks always on the motive, not the deed, / The Shadow of Shadows on the deed alone.

              —William Butler Yeats

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

             —William Shakespeare

Fear grows in darkness; if you think there’s a bogeyman around, turn on the light.

                   —Dorothy Thompson

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?

                       —Maurice Freehill

You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in.

                              —Arlo Guthrie

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.          —Rabindranath Tagore

Darkness can not drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.

           —Martin Luther King, Jr

We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.    

                          —Ben Sweetland

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.              —Buddha

There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

                          —Edith Wharton

Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold, lost as it is in the depths, small, isolated, a pin-point, brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.            —Victor Hugo

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.  —L.E. Landon