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Quotes About Light

I let myself drift, as to the depth of an ocean, to the depths of a dismal neighborhood of hard and opaque but rather light houses, to the inner gaze of memory, for the matter of memory is porous.
~ Jean Genet
He was experiencing minutes as light as minuets, minutes composed of anxiety and tenderness.
~ Jean Genet
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.
~ Jean Giraudoux
It means: I bow to the divine light within you and you bow to the divine light within me.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing in nature without a purpose, and when so complicated an organ was made to receive the light, there must have been light to enter it.
~ Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz
She took his hand and kissed it fervently. "I can never thank you enough for all you have given me. You snatched me from the dark pit of despair, of horror, and you set me here in the sunshine.
~ Jean Plaidy
My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
~ Jean Racine
Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit. La lumière du jour, les ombres de la nuit, Tout retrace à mes yeux les charmes que j'évite. Tout vous livre à l'envi le rebelle Hippolyte.
~ Jean Racine
To love someone is to reveal to them their capacities for life, the light that is shining in them.
~ Jean Vanier
We all flow from a source that is unfathomable and we are all journeying towards it, carrying with us the light of truth and love. Each of us is called to be in communion with the source and heart of the universe.
~ Jean Vanier
Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop-corns. It's late afternoon - the sun is just setting (a cold yellow colour) behind some colder violet hills, and I am up in my window seat using the last light to write to you.
~ Jean Webster
?nsan kendi karanl?klarda bo?ulurken, ba?kalar?na nas?l ???k da??t?r?
~ Jean-Christophe Grangé
There's a moment, Lydia realizes, or no, more than a moment—a span of perhaps fifteen minutes just at twilight—when the desert is the most perfect place that exists. The temperature, the light, the colors, all hang and linger at some unflawed precipice, like the cars of a roller coaster ticking ever so slowly over the apex before the crash.
~ Jeanine Cummins
cheerful shade of pink in the light
~ Jeanine Cummins
Mais l'amour ce n'est pas cela, c'est une foudre à combustion lente, un éclair qui se déploie au ralenti dans le ciel plombé de la solitude et qui met des semaines, parfois des années à répandre sa lumière sur la conscience, laquelle devra attendre encore longtemps avant d'être secouée par les roulements terribles du tonnerre.
~ Jean-Marie Laclavetine
They lifted their faces to the astonishing warmth. The sky arched over them, a pale, clear blue. Lina felt as though a lid that had been on her all her life had been lifted off. Light and air rushed though her, making a song, like the songs of Ember, only it was a song of joy. She looked at Doon and saw that he was smiling and crying at the same time, and she realized that she was, too.
~ Jeanne DuPrau
Está nua, e a luz impregna a sua pele branca de um brilho quente, como se tivesse mergulhada em mel (...)»
~ Jeanne Kalogridis
those latitudes, poured out his blessings upon the city. The warm tide of light, paying tribute first to the newer creed, flowed over the topmost cross of the cathedral, washing its cool stone with golden glory, splashing down the spire.
~ Jeanne M. Dams
Listen. Outside this frame I can see light, heavy as pardon, reliable as granite. Help me. Help me drag it into the picture.
~ Jeanne Murray Walker
We had found the place from which we were all lit from within, and oh, we were shining.
~ Jeanne Ray
Taking a solemn oath and sticking to it casts everything in a different light and infuses the ordinary with significance. It can change a person more radically than any drug or many years of therapy.
~ Jeanne Safer
One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
~ Jeannette Walls
chaque jour à mon âme tu ajoutes une flamme des fleurs à ma corbeille un rai à mon soleil
~ Jean-Robert Léonidas
What is harvested in the world is composed of four elements: water, earth, wind, and light. What God harvests is also composed of four elements: faith [pistis], hope [elpis], love [agap], and contemplation [gnosis]. Our earth is faith, for she gives us roots. Water is our hope, for it slakes our thirst. Wind [pneuma] is the love [agap] through which we grow; and light is the contemplation [gnosis] through which we ripen.
~ Jean-Yves Leloup