Blinding Light Quotes:

The truth isn't always a blinding light. Sometimes it's a deep and dazzling darkness, that illuminates - and burns - just as surely.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Light, Darkness, Sometimes, Blinding Light, Dazzling

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

- Og Mandino

source: "The Greatest Salesman in the World". Book by Og Mandino, 1968.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Stars, Spiritual Darkness, Spiritual Light

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

- Edith Wharton

source: "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Empowering Women, Social Good

I cut through the nonsense with the blinding light of truth.

- Ann Coulter

topic: Cutting, Light, Nonsense, Blinding Light

Even a small match lit in a place of total darkness gives off a blinding light.

- Richard Stearns

source: Richard Stearns (2014). “Stearns 2 in 1: The Hole in Our Gospel and Unfinished”, p.54, Harper Collins

topic: Light, Giving, Darkness, Blinding Light

I yearn to live and love and burn, and yet so much of my time is spent faking and forgetting, faking and forgetting I carry out my disbelief with uninspired hands, my eyes shut, my emotions dulled, my spirit numb. In times like these I am in desperate need of truth to come to me like a blinding light, like a splinter in my soul, reminding me of the brevity of my time here on earth.

- Jon Foreman

topic: Eye, Light, Times Like These, Live And Love, Blinding Light

The solid, solid universe Is pervious to Love; With bandaged eyes he never errs, Around, below, above. His blinding light He flingeth white On God's and Satan's brood, And reconciles By mystic wiles The evil and the good.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.347, University of Missouri Press

topic: Life, Eye, Light, Blinding Light

When silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. That ultimate "why," that great "why" is like a light that blots out everything, but a blinding light; nothing more can be made out...

- Eugene Ionesco

topic: Philosophical, Light, Silence, Blinding Light

Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away. I could only re-experience with total cognizance, unprotected by pretense. Self delusion was impossible, truth exposed in this blinding light. Nothing as I thought it had been. Nothing as I hoped it had been. Only as it had been.

- Richard Matheson

topic: Memories, Self, Light, Blinding Light, Self Delusion

It is hard to think of conversion as a blinding light on the road to Damascus, or as a highly spiritual or intellectual process, when the light comes from a flickering television; the voice of the deity is Bishop Sheen and you have drilled your father on his catechism answers...I was troubled at a young age by the idea that pouring water over someone's head could change both his relationship to God...

- Susan Jacoby

topic: Spiritual, Women, Father, Blinding Light, Catechism

Oh, my stars! Think about Prince Kai! You could dance with Prince Kai!” This made Cinder pause and squint into Iko’s blinding light. “Why would the prince dance with me?” Iko’s fan hummed as she sought an answer. “Because you won’t have grease on your face this time.

- Marissa Meyer

topic: Stars, Thinking, Light, Prince Kai, Blinding Light

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

topic: Light, Defeat, Now And Then, Blinding Light

A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark.

- John Singer Sargent

topic: Dark, Light, Way, Impressionism, Eyesight

What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.

- Godfrey Reggio

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Technology, Light, Trying, Blinding Light

How sad, a heart that does not know how to love, that does not know what it is to be drunk with love. If you are not in love, how can you enjoy the blinding light of the sun, the soft light of the moon?

- Omar Khayyam

topic: Heart, Moon, Light, Blinding Light

You might ask yourself why you want to surprise your readers in the first place. A surprise ending is sort of like a surprise party. Probably some people, somewhere, enjoy having friends and trusted colleagues lunge at them in the sudden blinding light of their own living room, but I don't think most of us do.

- Jincy Willett

source: Jincy Willett (2009). “The Writing Class”, p.75, Macmillan

topic: Party, Thinking, Light, Surprise Party, Blinding Light