Lighthouses Quotes

“I wish to spend a lifetime near a lighthouse where loneliness will be the glimmer of luminous prancing upon ocean waves… rising and falling only for my breathing.”
― Munia Khan

“God built lighthouses to see people through storms. Then he built storms to remind people to find lighthouses.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I feel that we’re all lighthouses, and my job is to shine my light as brightly as I can to the darkness.”
― Jim Carrey

“Lighthouses are not just stone, brick, metal, and glass. There's a human story at every lighthouse; that's the story I want to tell.”
― Elinor DeWire

“The trouble with drowning in the mess of your own life is that you're not in any shape to save anyone else. You can't be a lighthouse when you're underwater yourself.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Prayer Box

“If lighthouse becomes a burning candle,
flickered upon ocean's insanity.
Your sailing heart there anchors to handle
the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity.”
― Munia Khan

“If you close your eyes, no lighthouse can help you!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this."

I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself.

"Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea."

"The board-schools."

"Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I

“We can _start_ making Christmas and Santa can finish up.”
― Toni Buzzeo

“Far from the shore stands the grey lighthouse, above sunken slimy rocks that are seen when the tide is low, but unseen when the tide is high. Past that beacon for a century have swept the majestic barques of the seven seas. In the days of my grandfather there were many; in the days of my father not so many; and now there are so few that I sometimes feel strangely alone, as though I were the last man on our planet.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The White Ship

“There was a timelessness here, and yet a sense
of time greater than any before, that could only be found in a lighthouse.”
― Gina Marinello-Sweeney, Peter

“the Rottnest Light is a stumpy middle finger sticking up from the a rocky rise, grunting, "Sit on this, mate.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

“The Lighthouse by Stewart Stafford

Apart and alone,
From where the ships dock,
Stands the white sentinel edifice on a promontory rock.

Like the land's index finger,
At the extent of the sea,
Warning passing vessels where it's safe to be.

It's one luminous eye,
Swivels around its clear head,
To keep lucky sailors off the seabed.

It seeks no credit,
And needs no thanks,
Saluting proudly from above the fog banks.

© Stewart Stafford, 2021. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“The lighthouse was called The Longing. Pitched amidst tessellations of rock black as coke, thrashed for over a hundred years by disconsolate squalls, it needled upwards, spine-straight, a white bolt locking earth, sky, and ocean together. It was lovely in its decrepitude, feathery paint gnawed off by north winds and rust-blazed window frames signatures of use and purpose. -The Lighthouse Witches, C.J. Cooke”
― C.J. Cooke, The Lighthouse Witches

“Some sit in the dark saying 'the light didn't come and find me', some just go and find it where the light is! But there is another category, they neither expect nor seek light, they create the light themselves!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If you want to help a lighthouse, just don't block its light, that's the greatest help!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“What the eye truly sees, the heart will forever remember.” From one of my books.”
― Kathie Baset, A Walk to Remember : Sweet & Sexy contemporary literary romance series

“Fawn supposed Black's treaty had been made long ago. He was tall and unwavering, like one of the shaded lighthouses scattered across Cadoett's waters. How many ships were still lost? How many sailors never made it home? Black was resolute, and the mountain appeared to empower him.”
― Ella Rose Carlos, A Long Lost Fantasy

“Even the two moose were surprised. It was almost as cold as Iceland, but not quite. They decided to occupy the last hour on deck knitting hats and scarves for Snugs, Carla, and James. Clickety-click went their knitting needle antlers...”
― Suzy Davies, Snugs The Snow Bear

“Now the ivory towers will be 'visitor centres'
visited mostly during the long winters
by sea-birds — cormorant, puffin, kittiwake —
and their quartz lenses' own impersonal stroke
while automatically their hard gem-like flames
circulating at night unseen in empty rooms
preside over global warming and polar melt-down,
over Bill Long's Marie-Celeste effect and 'sonar-singing dark'.”
― Derek Mahon, The Yellow Book