Quotes About Light

the divine solution to the gross malady of darkness is an army of brilliant light. Like dawn spreading across the mountains a large and mighty army comes, such as never was of old nor ever will be in ages to come. . . . The LORD thunders at the head of his army; his forces are beyond number, and mighty are those who obey his command. Joel 2:2, 11 NIV

The Bright Blessed Day, the Dark Sacred Night

Men are sometimes driven by things that to a women make no sense, but she did know that Corelli had to be with his boys. Honour and common sense; in the light of the other, both of them are ridiculous.

Eventually he began to consider that the ordering of his recollections was in fact not the most important thing; what was important was the final memory, the one he deliberately kept 'til last, the one that would be nearest to salvation, the one that blazed with light.

Dz?ve ir cietums, kas b?v?ts no nabadz?bas un nepiepild?tiem sap?iem, t? ir l?na virz?šan?s uz manu vietu zem zemes, t? ir Dieva vilt?ba, lai liktu mums vilties mies?, t? ir tikai ?su br?di degoša liesmi?a e??as trauk? starp vienu tumsu un citu, kas ir t?s gal?.

The silver fish flashed in the sun like new knives, transforming their asphyxiation into a display of beauty as they flicked and leapt against each other and died.

One does not 'become' a Sun. One is or is not a Sun.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

As lifted the curtain to look out into the dreary night, the moon broke suddenly from behind the clouds, and shone upon her like a bright, benignant face, which seemed to whisper in the silence, 'Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

tras las nubes siempre llega la luz.

I don't see why God made any night; day is so much pleasanter…

No te desanimes, querida, recuerda que tras las nubes siempre llega la luz

De improviso, la luna se abrió paso entre las nubes y lo llenó todo de luz, como una cara luminosa y benigna que parecía susurrar en el silencio: No te desanimes, querida, recuerda que tras las nubes siempre llega la luz.

As she lifted the curtain to look out into the dreary night, the moon broke suddenly from behind the clouds and shone upon her like a bright, benignant face, which seemed to whisper in the silence, "Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

Though it came in such a very simple guise, that was the crowning moment of both their lives, when, turning from the night and storm and loneliness to the household light and warmth and peace waiting to receive them, with a glad Welcome home! Jo led her lover in, and shut the door.

Girls were not named for flowers, as flowers died so quickly. Girls were named for deathless things - forms of light, forms of cloud, shapes of stars, that which appears and disappears like an island on the horizon.

To counter competition from gaslight, Edison based his promotional scheme upon a moral and aesthetic contrast between good electric light and evil gaslight.

Out of Chaos came light, Out of Will came life, Without form, without time From iron black space Through beads of crystal flame. Cosmic rays of light and sound, Spinning in seas of universal ether, Piercing the armatures of spheres. From the Mysteries—it comes. From Legend—it comes. From ancestors of a thousand ages—it comes. The Spirit, The Will, The Wisdom, Temple of Wotan.

A Servant of History Her eyes were of the lightest blue as if time had rinsed away most of the colour, but there was a liveliness inside them.

In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is.

El arte es una herida hecha luz, decía Georges Braque. Necesitamos esa luz, no sólo los que escribimos o pintamos o componemos música, sino también los que leemos y vemos cuadros y escuchamos un concierto. Todos necesitamos la belleza para que la vida nos sea soportable.

En la pequeña noche de la vida humana, la loca de la casa enciende velas.

El arte es una herida hecha luz, decía Georges Braque. Necesitamos esa luz, no sólo los que escribimos o pintamos o componemos música, sino también los que leemos y vemos cuadros y escuchamos un concierto. Todos necesitamos la belleza para que la vida nos sea soportable. Lo expresó muy bien Fernando Pessoa: La literatura, como el arte en general, es la demostración de que la vida no basta.

La vida es un pequeño espacio de luz entre dos nostalgias: la de lo que aún no has vivido y la de lo que ya no vas a poder vivir.