Quotes About Light

Es wurde Herbst und Winter. Es wurde Sommer. Es wurde dunkel, und es wurde hell.

I think I'll call you Cygnus," Chelsea said. "The swan?" I said. A bit precious, but it could have been worse. She shook her head. "Black hole. Cygnus X-1." Ah. A dark, dense object that sucks up the light and destroys everything in its path. "Thanks a whole fucking lot.

A laser is assigned to find the darkness. Since it lives in a room without doors, or windows, or any other source of light, it thinks this will be easy. But everywhere it turns it sees brightness. Every wall, every piece of furniture it points at is brightly lit. Eventually it concludes there is no darkness, that light is everywhere.

And she almost laughs as she realizes, three thousand meters from the nearest sunlight, that it's only dark when the lights are on.

She was attractive, but so was everyone in this kind of light; the longer the wavelength, the softer the focus. There's a reason fuckcubbies don't come with fluorescent lights.

Like to hear a vampire folk tale?" Sarasti asked. "Vampires have folk tales?" He took it for a yes. "A laser is assigned to find the darkness. Since it lives in a room without doors, or windows, or any other source of light, it thinks this will be easy. But everywhere it turns it sees brightness. Every wall, every piece of furniture it points at is brightly lit. Eventually it concludes there is no darkness, that light is everywhere.

I brought her flowers one dusky Tuesday evening when the light was perfect. I pointed out the irony of that romantic old tradition— the severed genitalia of another species, offered as a precopulatory bribe—and then I recited my story just as we were about to fuck. To this day, I still don't know what went wrong.

...Lost in your heart, lost in your eyes Lost every day, no map to follow Entire days, weeks, a blur Flickers of light, in the darkness, Only to be enveloped in shadows once more...

Fakat bu ????a çok bakam?yordum, bu güne? bile gözlerimden içeriye girince, kendinden daha büyük bir karanl?k denizine dü?mü? gibi derhal sönüyor ve içimin rengini al?yordu.

Korkunun bu en derinle?en türü dayan?lacak ?ey de?il; ?st?rab?n vukuundan evvel ruhta bir gölgesinden ibaret olan korku, ?st?raptan bin kat daha müthi?. Hayal gücünün ?????na yakla?t?kça ruhta uzanan, büyüyen ve asl?ndan daha korkunç bir gölge.

Stood there in the moonlight – so much light from such a slender moon – and watched her dying like an October butterfly

As I sat here. With eyes closed softly I think deeply of "you" And I inhale stars The scent of twinkling light So fresh and alive Sparkling gentle inside me And I want to write this feeling So tentatively As it must be Like writing words on bubbles Delicate and precious Begging them not to disappear Like dreams in the morning ...

Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.

The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.

The ideal was the light; the real, the shadow.

What's that got to do with it?" Sam said. "A humorist is a man whose soul is black, black, but who turns his curdles of darkness into explosions of light. But when the light dies out, the black returns.

Dalia picked up her negligee. She didn't need my help, it wasn't very heavy.

And you are pieced together bit by bit Set against the evening Lovely and glowing, like a chain of gold. — Philip Larkin, from "(A Study in Light and Dark)," The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin , ed. Archie Burnett (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2012)

But how luminous are they—literally, how much light are they emitting? This depends on how massive they are: The mass of a star is the single greatest factor in how it lives its life, including its luminosity and its life span.

Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust, And thou, my mind, aspire to higher things! Grow rich in that which never taketh rust: Whatever fades, but fading pleasure brings. Draw in thy beams, and humble all thy might To that sweet yoke where lasting freedoms be; Which breaks the clouds, and opens forth the light, That doth both shine, and give us sight to see.

He reached into the grate, picked out a couple of scraps, smoothed them out, leaning close to the flickering light. He was curious to see what it was Zoia had decided to destroy.

Mais je ne pouvais pas imaginer que parfois les soleils deviennent des gêneurs, et que leurs rayons qui éclairent le monde et le font resplendir, malgré eux, dévoilent aussi ce qu'on cherche à enfouir.

Anyone who does not acknowledge the darkness in his nature will succumb to it...the lamp of conviction needs to be shaded by doubt, or it burns with a blinding light.

Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right...