Quotes About Light

The halo of light which had emerged from the burning Mustang still lay over the creeks and paddies. For a few minutes the sun had drawn nearer to the earth, as if to scorch the death from the fields.

If light is the first love of life, is not love a light to the heart?

White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light.

Alas! we cannot understand each other on any point. We are separated by an abyss. You are on the side of darkness, while I—I live in the light, the true Light!

Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face.

I longed for a companion to the kingdom of Light; I wished to show you that morsel of mud, I find you bound to it.

In bringing God face to face with the Great Whole, we see that only two states are possible between them,—either God and Matter are contemporaneous, or God existed alone before Matter. Were Reason—the light that has guided the human race from the dawn of its existence—accumulated in one brain, even that mighty brain could not invent a third mode of being without suppressing both Matter and God.

Your Science, which makes you great in your own eyes, is paltry indeed beside the light which bathes a Seer.

You have the nicest window, you know? None of the others can even compete. It´s not flashy like the others, or bleary – your window gives of this nice, quiet light.

Quanti anni avevo quand'ho capito che su quel sentiero buio e solitario l'unica luce possibile era quella che io stessa avrei emanato?

Los grandes hombres, sólo con existir, emiten una luz que ilumina a quienes están a su alrededor, y cuando esta luz se apaga proyecta una sombra pesada, irremediablemente.

From the moment we met, I as a butterfly that flew into that space that was his soul, a room where the light had begun to dim.

From the moment we met, I was a butterfly that flew into that space that was his soul, a room where the light had begun to dim.

Time simply floated open and started to expand. Time held the two of us in light, inside a space so vast it might have reached the heavens, and turned eternal.

When there's a plus, there's always a minus. If there's a powerful light, the darkness that is its opposite will be just as strong.

Suspended in the dim light before the window overlooking the magnificent tenth-floor view, the plants breathed softly, resting. By now the rain had stopped, and the atmosphere, sparkling, replete with moisture, refracted the glittering night splendidly.

And then, suddenly, time was flowing differently than usual. It didn't turn back, or even pause. Time simply floated open and started to expand. Time held the two of us in light, inside a space so vast it might have reached the heavens, and turned eternal.

A differenza che nelle grandi difficoltà della vita, nelle piccole cose, nei momenti che passano in un lampo, risplende quella luce misteriosa che si vede quando si realizza un sogno.

There she was, watering the plants with her slender, graceful hands, in the midst of a light so sweet it seemed to form a rainbow in the transparent water she poured.

Avrei voluto che arrivasse presto il mattino. Volevo bagnare il mio corpo nella sua luce abbagliante, quella che purifica ogni cosa, come facevo adesso nell'acqua di quel bagno termale. Perché mi rendevo conto che, come succede quando si ha la febbre alta e non si riesce a ricordare la vita normale, per il momento non potevo vivere al di fuori di quella notte.

Provammo un senso di disorientamento, la stessa mancanza di sincronia tra suono e luce quando c'è un tuono.

Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends. Perhaps Eriko's was only a minor kind of greatness, but her light was sorely missed.

E' notte nelle strade. Mentre aspettiamo al semaforo è bello vedere la gente che passa davanti al parabrezza, impiegati, donne, giovani, vecchi, brillare alla luce dei fari. E' l'ora in cui, sotto la cupola fredda e silenziosa della notte, tutti, avvolti in maglioni e cappotti, sono diretti verso un posto caldo, chissà dove.

I grandi personaggi nel loro semplice esistere emettono luce e rischiarano lo spirito di chi sta loro accanto. Così, quando si spengono, inevitabilmente scende un'ombra pesante.