Meaning
- someone who makes one very happy.
- a soulmate to another person.
- someone who brightens another's life.
- the person one loves more than anyone else.
- someone that makes one's life worth living.
Example Sentences
- Because he was there with him through everything, he saw him as the light of his life.
- You should see the person you marry as the light of your life.
- It was unfortunate that she was the light of his life, but she didn't see him the same way.
- When she was the only one to stay with her that night, she realized she was the light of her life.
- It might seem strange, but I see my cat as the light of my life.
- We knew he was being dramatic when he called the girl he just met the light of his life.
- I met the light of my life when we were just kids, and we've been at each other's side ever since.
- I spent so long searching, only to realize the light of my life was my best friend all along.
Origin
" Light of one's life" is an idiom that dates back as early as Ancient Greece. The phrase "light of my life" was first used in the play " Andromache," written by Euripides, where the main female lead refers to her son as such. The phrase was derived from " Eye of My Life" (the direct translation from Greek) and later became " light of my life" when translated to English. There are very popular lines that use this idiom, such as in the novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov:
"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta."
