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Lighthouse Quotes

We’ve collected the best Lighthouse Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Charles Simic, Jose Feliciano, David Lowery, Robert Eggers, Immanuel Kant. Use them as an inspiration.

1
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
Charles Simic
2
I went through the immigration thing. But when I got to New York it wasn’t so tough for me. I went to school. I went to P.S. 57, then I went to the Lighthouse for the Blind on 59th St. I guess being blind is a great leveler.
Jose Feliciano
3
Virginia Woolf’s literature really transformed my own ideas about how to formally represent the passage of time and how time affects us. Specifically, the benchmarks are ‘Mrs. Dalloway,’ ‘To the Lighthouse’ and ‘Orlando,’ all of which have time as a central conceit.
David Lowery
4
The Lighthouse’ couldn’t have been made without this kind of freedom that is allowed to some filmmakers to be able to play around with genre. Jennifer Kent‘s ‘Nightingale’ is more horrific than any horror movie – but also, I don’t think you could make that movie without this kind of freedom.
Robert Eggers
5
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel Kant
6
Three years into getting ‘The Witch‘ financed, I was hanging out with my brother and he was like, ‘I’m working on this script. It’s a ghost story in a lighthouse.’ I thought, ‘Damn, that’s a really good idea, I wish I’d had it.’
Robert Eggers
7
Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
Charles Dickens
8
When ‘The Lighthouse,’ bizarrely, became the film that people wanted to greenlight, it was really clear that those were the only two people to play the roles. And I knew that they would want to do it.
Robert Eggers
9
The Witch’ was very well planned, but ‘The Lighthouse’ was so much more so.
Robert Eggers
10
Israel is a lighthouse and the only democracy in a dark and tyrannical region. It’s part of us, of our European identity.
Geert Wilders
11
A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
12
You have to scuba dive in the Alexandrian harbor if you want to see what remains of the lighthouse of Cleopatra’s day, and the water in the Alexandrian harbor is not really something you want to come into contact with.
Stacy Schiff
13
Peru, Peru. My heart‘s lighthouse.
Morrissey
14
From Captain Britain‘s point of view we live in a great, heavily populated omniverse and our reality is just one part of that. In each of the parallel worlds there is a lighthouse on every shore of every England where the champion has his base.
Chris Claremont