Are you fascinated or intrigued by lighthouses? Do you have your favorite ones?
Well, since you’re reading my article, we both obviously share the fascination with the structure that symbolizes two amazing things: hope and security. And seriously, what’s more beautiful than that?
Having that in mind, I’ve decided to make the ultimate collection of 150 most beautiful and inspirational lighthouse quotes I found online!
Are you ready? Let’s check them out!
10 Most Powerful Lighthouse Quotes
1. “When I look at a lighthouse, I see my past and my future. It whispers to me, and I listen.” – Scarlett Miles
2. “A lighthouse is kind of like an angel. Most of the people the light helps take it for granted. Until it’s not there.” – Jeffrey Perren
3. “Some people are destined to be a lighthouse for a lost comrade.” – Erin Forbes
4. “The lighthouse stands on the edge of the known and the unknown, casting its beacon of light into the darkness.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
5. “Third eye of the sea, the lonely lighthouse never sleeps.” – Nanette L. Avery
6. “A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.” – proverb
7. “And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.” – Ford Madox Ford
8. “A lighthouse is a sign that God hasn’t abandoned me.” – Lauren Levine
9. “Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse.” – Japanese proverb
10. “A lighthouse doesn’t discriminate between the ships it saves, it just goes on shining.” – Anne Lamott
Inspirational Lighthouse Quotes
1. “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
2. “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
3. “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
4. “We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won’t need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining – they just shine.” – Dwight L. Moody
5. “God built lighthouses to see people through storms. Then he built storms to remind people to find lighthouses.” – Shannon L. Alder
6. “If you want to help a lighthouse, just don’t block its light, that’s the greatest help!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
7. “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
8. “It’s about how you’re like a lighthouse, always searching far into the distance. But the thing you’re looking for is usually close to you and always has been. That’s why you have to look within yourself to find answers instead of searching beyond.” – Susane Colasanti
9. “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
10. “In devastating times I keep this hope of mine, even in the darkest night, ’cause there is a light guiding my way, keeping me safe when oceans rage. There in the sky, hiding away, never to die and fade. I know that I’ll find your lighthouse.” – Nina Kraljic
11. “A calm summer sea, a still winter night, a black velvet sky studded with stars – these are the gifts of lighthouses, who also give a precious sense of protectiveness and security.” – Unknown
12. “Open your eyes and look around carefully at the moments when you think you have failed, because the lighthouse of the success mysteriously appears amongst the fog at those very moments!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
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13. “I am a lighthouse worn by the weather and the waves. I keep my lamp lit to warn the sailors on their way.” – Nickel Creek
14. “Anxiously you ask, ‘Is there a way to safety? Can someone guide me? Is there an escape from threatened destruction?’ The answer is a resounding yes! I counsel you: Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue. It beckons through the storms of life. It calls, “This way to safety; this way to home.” – Thomas S. Monson
15. “You are the lighthouse. The final destination. You can sleep easy, my dearest. The others . . . they are the shifting waves, but you are the harbor.” – Margot S. Baumann
16. “Do you remember standing on the shore, head in the clouds, your pockets filled with dreams, bound for glory, on the seven seas of life. But, the ocean is deeper than it seems.” – Whitesnake
17. “The past is a lighthouse not a port.” – Russian proverb
18. “Unbelievable scenery, with the backdrop of the Lighthouse and the boats. Great place to come out and enjoy some good times with friends.” – Merv Adams
19. “Seek not a lighthouse greater than the human mind!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
20. “He’s the One I always run to…The lighthouse that I turn to.” – Mario William Vitale
21. “In the midst of chaos, there is still light.” – Unknown
22. “My lighthouse is taking me in with open arms, too.” – Unknown
23. “As the sun sets, we’re reminded that life is too short to not chase our dreams.” – Unknown
24. “It’s a lighthouse thing, you wouldn’t understand.” – Unknown
25. “Peru, Peru. My heart’s lighthouse.” – Morrissey
26. “I’ve never met a lighthouse I didn’t like.” – Unknown
27. “Be the lighthouse and let your light shine. The tide will carry you ashore.” – Unknown
28. “Though the storms of life threaten to drown me, I will hold onto my faith no matter how dim the light.” – Unknown
29. “In the light of the lighthouse, all troubles fade away by the shore.” – Unknown
30. “When the seas get rough, look at the light.” – Unknown
Motivational Lighthouse Quotes
1. “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
2. “If you open your eyes very wide and look around you carefully, you will always see a lighthouse which will lead you to the right path! Just watch around you carefully!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
3. “Are you looking for a lighthouse? Let me give you an advice: when you improve your own mind, you become your very own lighthouse!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
4. “Sail your ship across the water, spread your wings across the sky. Take the time to see, you’re the one who holds the key, or sailing ships will pass you by.” – Whitesnake
5. “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
6. “Man must behave like a lighthouse; he must shine day and night for the goodness of everyman.” – Mehmet Murat oldan
7. “When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.” – Helen Keller
8. “Spread light, be the lighthouse.” – Unknown
9. “If you close your eyes, no lighthouse can help you!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
10. “You cry for mercy when you think you’ve lost your way. You drift alone, if all your hope is gone. So find the strength and you will see, you control your destiny, after all is said and done.” – Whitesnake
11. “We’ve been through a lot of storms together but I know that you’ll be the same old lighthouse when I come back to the harbor.” – Unknown
12. “Be the lighthouse that doesn’t lose sight of its surroundings, the beacon that refuses to dim.” – Unknown
13. “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
14. “By spreading knowledge you can live forever. You can be the lighthouse that guides people to safety; a light in the darkest of times.” – Zachariah Renfro
15. “Stop turning every other battle into yours. Sometimes amidst of all the wars, all you need to become is the lighthouse, not the sword.” – Akshay Vasu
16. “Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way.” – Henry Ward Beecher
17. “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
18. “Knowing when and how to change course is important to success. Self-doubt is a lighthouse that will keep you from running aground. Don’t become shipwrecked on the rocks of time. Be willing to rethink your decisions and change course.” – Harley King
19. “It’s like all my life I’ve been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and only now, almost eighteen years in, has someone thought to flip the switch that reveals that I’m not a tower at all. I’m a lighthouse. It’s like waking up. I am incandescent.” – Laini Taylor
20. “You will finally have dignity when you realize that you are not on the path, but have become the path for others.” – Shannon L. Alder
21. “Never lose hope that a lighthouse is waiting for you. Somewhere. Patiently.” – Unknown
22. “At some time, often when we least expect it, we all have to face overwhelming challenges. When the unthinkable happens, the lighthouse is hope. Once we find it, we must cling to it with absolute determination. When we have hope, we discover powers within ourselves we may have never known – the power to make sacrifices, to endure, to heal, and to love. Once we choose hope, everything is possible.” – Christopher Reeve
23. “Let hope be your Lighthouse, beckoning you through stormy seas.” – Jessica De La Davies
24. “Never forget you might be the only lighthouse in someone’s life.” – Unknown
25. “Don’t ever let anyone put out your light because they are blinded by it.” – Shannon L. Alder
26. “Be the lighthouse that bears the torment of the storm, but never forget to show the saving lights of life.” – Debasish Mridha
27. “If you are a lighthouse, you cannot hide yourself; if you hide yourself, you cannot be a lighthouse!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
28. “The dip of the light meant that the island itself was always left in darkness. A lighthouse is for others; powerless to illuminate the space closest to it.” – M.L. Steadman
29. “Couldn’t we shine? Rolling all my golden moments into one. Like to shine like the sun for one more summer day. Like to shine like a lighthouse for one last summer night, flashing on, flashing, fading away.” – James Taylor
30. “Every lighthouse knows that when the giant waves come, no one will help! And when you know that no one will help you, you fight more seriously!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
Mind-blowing Lighthouse Quotes
1. “A lighthouse is a way of giving back to the world that which it gave us: a home.” – Alan Kozlowski
2. “Searching for some kind of direction, / Looking for a guiding light / Needed to see a lighthouse, / Like a ship on a stormy night.” – D’Antignac
3. “The lighthouse lost its beam / And now all I see / Is the face of the cliffs between the moonlight waxing.” – Garrett Michael Zablocki
4. “Cause there’s a lighthouse, in the harbor / Shining faithfully / Pouring its light out, across the water / For this sinking soul to see / That someone out there still believes in me.” – Jenny L. Yates
5. “The lighthouse beam has become an archetype of human hope and steadfastness.” – E. O. Wilson
6. “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
7. “The waves crash in / The tide rolls out / It’s an angry sea / But there is no doubt / That the lighthouse / Will keep shining out / To warn a lonely sailor.” – Rich Mullins
8. “The lighthouse braces against the wind / Silver light reaching for the lost / Laced windows, worried eyes / Fearful of the cost.” – Art Davis
9. “Holding up the fire, / I’m lighting up the sky / Like a lighthouse on the ocean, / I bring your home alright.” – David Nesta Marley
10. “Capable of enduring through any weather, a lighthouse is a steady symbol of strength. It’s a symbol of guidance, security, and protection. A lighthouse will always be there for you.” – Unknown
11. “She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking some past stage on this adventurous, long, long voyage, this interminable – this interminable life.” – Virginia Woolf
12. “Art for art’s sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden. It is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.” – E. M. Forster
13. “We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse.” – Unknown
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14. “The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye, that opened suddenly, and softly in the evening. Now — James looked at the Lighthouse. He could see the white-washed rocks; the tower, stark and straight; he could see that it was barred with black and white; he could see windows in it; he could even see washing spread on the rocks to dry. So that was the Lighthouse, was it? No, the other was also the Lighthouse. For nothing was simply one thing. The other Lighthouse was true too.” – Virginia Woolf
15. “These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jagged rocks. I only have these little glimmers that flicker and then go out.” – Rebecca Wells
16. “The best evidence of character is confidence. Are you skilled and confident enough to lead? Are you like the lighthouse?” – Unknown
17. “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
18. “The tranquil moonlit waters of the Chesapeake Bay belie its perilous course. Colonists quickly realized that prosperity from the commerce this and other waterways afforded would come at great risk. Lighthouses were desperately needed, but nearly two centuries would pass before the first sentinels lit the New World.” – Elinor DeWire
19. “A wind-swept coast, a lighthouse, an island. Humans, above all else, long to be in the light.” – Unknown
20. “Everything is a hero: a lighthouse which gives light to us; weeds that provide shelter to little insects; a water drop which quenches a thirst ant! Everything that helps us to live is a hero!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
21. “Though I am no longer with my love, this lighthouse reminds me of our beautiful time together.” – Unknown
22. “What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?” – Catherine Drinker Bowen
23. “When I write songs, I try to write in a way to reach as many people as I can, to be a lighthouse versus a flashlight.” – Chris Tomlin
24. “Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.” – Anthony Rapp
25. “A lighthouse keeps sailors from danger, to navigate from danger out there. The light is a comforting thing to see.” – Catherine Drinker Bowen
26. “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
27. “Somewhat of goodness, something true from sun and spirit shining through all faiths, all worlds, as through the dark of ocean shines the lighthouse spark, attests the presence everywhere of love and providential care.” – John Greenleaf Whittier
28. “Is this lighthouse shining just for me?” – Unknown
29. “Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.” – Charles Dickens
30. “The meager lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had color and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.” – Charles Dickens
Deep Quotes On Lighthouses
1. “I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.” – George Bernard Shaw
2. “What does a lighthouse do? I ask myself. 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
3. “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
4. “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.” – C.J. Cooke
5. “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.” – Anne Lamott
6. “If the lighthouse becomes a burning candle, flickered upon the ocean’s insanity. Your sailing heart there anchors to handle the obsessed breeze towards sand dune’s vanity.” – Munia Khan
7. “I’m a lonely lighthouse, not a ship out in the night. I’m watching the sea. She’s come halfway round the world to see the light and to stay away from me. There is a shipwreck lying at my feet, some weary refugee from the rolling deep. Ah, could you lose it all and fall for me?” – James Taylor
8. “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
9. “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
10. “There are times when the ocean is not the ocean – not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: fierceness on a scale only gods can summon.” – M. L. Stedman
11. “She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliance!” – Henry James
12. “The love within them shone as brightly as the lighthouse beam on the darkest, stormiest night. It broke through her confusion and heartache and filled her with a warm glow.” – Jody Hedlund
13. “The lighthouse does great service to humanity yet it is the slave to those who trim the lamps.” – Alice Wellington Rollins
14. “Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.” – E.P. Whipple
15. “Lighthouses are endlessly suggestive signifiers of both human isolation and our ultimate connectedness to each other.” – Virginia Woolf
16. “He slept that night thinking of love and lighthouses. That one love might shine to bring all loves home.” – Jamie O’Neill
17. “Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.” – Benjamin Franklin
18. “The lighthouse that stands unintentionally stoic and tall and lights the way for those out at sea.” – Buffy Sammons
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19. “It’s because a lighthouse is two-faced, and this is how she feels each time she visits. A lighthouse is both an invitation and a warning. A lighthouse says Welcome home. But next to that, right after that, it also says Danger.” – Nathan Hill
20. “Once the lighthouse is seen, the rest of the sea is ignored.” – Terri Guillemets
21. “In the distance I see a lighthouse. The light washes over us and continues on its rotation. This time, I don’t know where the light will guide us.” – Lauren DeStefano
22. “The rocky ledge runs far into the sea, / And on its outer point, some miles away, / The Lighthouse lifts its massive masonry, / A pillar of fire by night, of cloud by day.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
23. “The lighthouse shines across the sea; / The homing fieldfares sing for glee: / ‘Behold the shore!'” – Ada Cambridge
24. “A lighthouse is not interested in who gets its light! It just gives it without thinking! Giving light is its nature!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
25. “Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.” – Charles Simic
26. “Why’s there a pharos here?” he said. “You don’t put a lighthouse where no one’s going to go. You put it somewhere dangerous where they have to go.” – China Mieville
27. “That night, at the lighthouse, everything else faded away and my entire world became Sofia Claremont.” – Bella Forrest
28. “The lighthouse of the Lord sends forth signals readily recognized and never failing.” – Thomas S. Monson
29. “A holy life will produce the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they only shine.” – Dwight L. Moody
30. “I forgot and left the lighthouse all night. Next day the sun wouldn’t rise.” – Steven Wright
Fascinating Quotes On Lighthouses
1. “The lighthouse of the Lord beckons to all as we sail the seas of life.” – Thomas S. Monson
2. “Through wind and waves, the light keeps shining.” – Unknown
3. “Be your own light and seek the highest good in all things — even if it means risking comfort.” – Unknown
4. “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 and remain safe in the rocky and dark waters of life!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
5. “An awake heart is like a lighthouse helping others to find a safe way home.” – Rolf van der Wind
6. “When the darkness closes in, let the light lead the way.” – Unknown
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7. “Let these eyes be a lighthouse. Let these arms be a safe harbour. Let this heart be a long awaited shore.” – Tiffany Aurora
8. “A lighthouse is a reminder that even the smallest light can make a difference.” – Unknown
9. “You were my lighthouse when I was lost at sea without you, I would never have found me.” – Gemma Troy
10. “Some people in our life are like a lighthouse. They guide us to safety as we navigate the coast.” – Mohammed Sekouty
11. “Stay calm. I’ll always be the lighthouse on your shore.” – Unknown
12. “I am a lighthouse rather than a lifeboat. I do not rescue, but instead help others to find their own way to shore, guiding them by my example.” – Unknown
13. “Be a lighthouse in the lives of those around you.” – Unknown
14. “The scars you share become lighthouses for other people who are headed to the same rocks you hit.” – Unknown
15. “A True Friend who leaves heartfelt messages, can be a lighthouse to others, sharing light and truth, which comes from their heart.” – Tom Baker
16. “When life gets stormy, hold on to hope.” – Unknown
17. “Don’t forget that maybe you are the lighthouse in someone’s storm.” – Unknown
18. “Let the light of the world be your guide.” – Unknown
19. “Lighten your load, so you can move forward with ease.” – Unknown
20. “Friends are like lighthouses, with the sources of light coming from their hearts.” – Tom Baker
To Wrap It Up
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