John Updike Quotes

We are not exposed to ice much in Florida.

Yet there is no spring in Florida, neither in boskage perdu, nor on the nunnery beaches.

If we hearken to counsel, we shall be the best people in the world; we shall be as a bright light set upon a hill, that cannot be hid, or like a candle upon a candlestick.

If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?

There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it.

Everything that is,casts a shadow

Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.

To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.

"Lights," I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom.

I didn't want to see you, but you invaded my world. Every dark corner you found a way in bringing light to the lifeless and lost." Eva

Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.

When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.

I swim in a shaft of light, upside down, and I can see myself clearly, through and through, from every angle. Perhaps I stand on the brink of a great discovery.

As the light of morning strikes now one peak and then another, some being illuminated while others are in the shadow, so the light of the essential moral principle shines now upon one duty and then upon another, while others are in the shadow.

The prayer of Ajax was for light.

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.

The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination -- aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines our consciousness as the sun dawns on the sleeping earth and bathes it in effulgence.

Light is constant, we just turn over in it.

Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.

Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light

A thief loves the night. I am day. I reveal essences.

The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master

God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways.