Sting Quotes

Its so real out here right now, the only reason why you see anything is cuz I got the flash on.

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.

The light, the sky, the water, they were all things you looked *through* during the day. At night, they were things you looked *into*. You looked *into* the stars, you looked *into* dark rollers and the surprising platinum flash of their caps.

Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.

The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.

When all candles be out, all cats be grey.

When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.

Remember, a small light will do a great deal when it is in a very dark place. Put one little tallow in the middle of a large hall, and it will give a good deal of light.

I always think of shade as being full of light. That is why I like to use the word shade rather than light and shadow. Shade seems to play over the thing, envelop it, better define it, while shadow seems to fall on the thing and stain the surface with darks.

Love can sun the realms of night.

Remember that in a hall of perfect darkness, totally dark, if you light one small candle, its light will be seen from afar; its precious light will be seen by everyone.

I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.

Give me a lamp so I can find the day.

Night is a world lit by itself.

A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.

...and the night is so deep and dark that I wonder if the sun will ever come up.

One must use the night.

The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.

Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death.