Quotes about lighthouses

One of the reasons I love lighthouses is that they are such a powerful metaphor for shining your own light. This comes through in these wonderful quotes I sourced.

Lighthouses serve simply by standing there and shining

• Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. Benjamin Franklin
• A holy life will produce the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they only shine. Dwight L. Moody
• Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining. Anne Lamott
• I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve. George Bernard Shaw
• A lighthouse is not interested in who gets its light! It just gives it without thinking! Giving light is its nature! Mehmet Murat Ildan
• A lighthouse doesn't save the ships; it doesn't go out and rescue them, it's just this pillar that helps to guide people home. Lea Michele
• What does a lighthouse do? It never moves. It cannot hike up its rocky skirt and dash into the ocean to rescue the foundering ship. It cannot calm the waters or clear the shoals. It can only cast light into the darkness. It can only point the way. Yet, through one lighthouse, you guide many ships. Show this old lighthouse the way.  Lisa Wingate

Lighthouses comfort and protect

• ...a lighthouse in the distance shows a cheerful gleaming eye... J. F. Dahlgren
• The lighthouse shines across the sea; The homing fieldfares sing for glee: 'Behold the shore!'  Ada Cambridge
• The lighthouse that stands unintentionally stoic and tall and lights the way for those out at sea.  Buffy Sammons
• A lighthouse keeps sailors from danger, to navigate from danger out there. The light is a comforting thing to see.  Catherine Drinker Bowen

Every lighthouse has a story

• 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

Your true self is a lighthouse

• Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.  Vernon Howard

Be like a lighthouse by shining your light

• An awake heart is like a lighthouse helping others to find a safe way home.  Rolf van der Wind
• Man must behave like a lighthouse; he must shine day and night for the goodness of everyman. Mehmet Murat Ildan
• 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
• Be the lighthouse that bears the torment of the storm, but never forget to show the saving lights of life.  Debasish Mridha
• Like a simple little lighthouse, my true ideal is to just be... having no trace of seeking, desiring, imitating, or striving, only light and peace.  Bodhi Smith
• To be a lighthouse, you must be strong enough to resist every kind of storm, to every kind of loneliness and you must have a powerful light inside you! Mehmet Murat Ildan

Friends are like lighthouses

• Friends are like Lighthouses, with the sources of light coming from their hearts. Tom Baker
• A true friend who leaves heartfelt messages can be a lighthouse to others, sharing light and truth.  Tom Baker

Love is like a lighthouse

• The love within them shone as brightly as the lighthouse beam on the darkest, stormiest night.  Jody Hedlund

Books and wisdom are like lighthouses

• Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. Edwin Percy Whipple
• A wise person is like a lighthouse. We are looking for their lights and follow them when we are in danger.  Debasish Mridha
• A good book is a lighthouse; a wise man is a lighthouse; conscience is a lighthouse; compassion is a lighthouse; science is a lighthouse! They all show us the true path! Keep them in your life to remain safe in the rocky and dark waters of life! Mehmet Murat Ildan

Original writers should be like lighthouses

• For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn’t get his ideas from other people all around him.  Robert M. Pirsig

The antithesis of a lighthouse

• Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse. Henry Ward Beecher
• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. Immanuel Kant

Thought provoking quotes about lighthouses

• The past is a lighthouse not a port.  Russian Proverb
• At the foot of the lighthouse it is dark.  Japanese proverb
• A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef. Navjot Singh Sidhu
• If you close your eyes, no lighthouse can help you!  Mehmet Murat ildan
• The lighthouse does great service to humanity yet it is the slave to those who trim the lamps.  Alice Wellington Rollins
• God built lighthouses to see people through storms. Then he built storms to remind people to find lighthouses.  Shannon L. Alder
• Lighthouses are endlessly suggestive signifiers of both human isolation and our ultimate connectedness to each other.  Virginia Woolf

Final thoughts

• She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy! Henry James
• The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves. Charles Dickens

Lighthouse poems

A lighthouse may seem old and cracked

But can save you when you fight against the gale

And so you look for a pair of bright eyes

When everything else seems to fail.

Morten Maehre

The lighthouse shines across the sea;

The homing fieldfares sing for glee:

‘Behold the shore!

Ada Cambridge

And as the evening darkens, lo! how bright,

Through the deep purple of the twilight air,

Beams forth the sudden radiance of its light

With strange, unearthly splendour in its glare!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The lighthouse lost its beam

And now all I see

Is the face of the cliffs between the moonlight waxing.

Garrett Michael Zablocki