Quotes About Light

I have wrestled with the angel and I am stained with light and I have no shame.

Frigg was the goddess of married women and love. She was also Odin's wife and queen of Asgard. Frigg and Odin had a son named Baldr. He was a beautiful god of light and purity.

A bright light at the end of a tunnel can seem warm and inviting, or it can seem mysterious and terrifying. People of the world all working on their arts and crafts can seem like heaven or, if you're me, hell.

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

What may not be expected in a country of eternal light

Soon a gentle light stole over the heavens, and gave me a sensation of pleasure. I started up, and beheld a radiant form rise from among the trees.* I gazed with a kind of wonder. It moved slowly, but it enlightened my path ; and I again went out. * The moon.

I was like the Arabian who had been buried with the dead, and found a passage to life aided only by one glimmering, and seemingly ineffectual, light. I

a child fairer than a pictured cherub - a creature who seemed to shed radiance from her looks and whose form and motions were lighter than the chamois of the hills.

the stars often disappeared in the light of the morning

She wondered at her previous blindness; it was as if she had closed her eyelids, and then fancied it was night. No fear that she should return to darkness; her heart felt so light, her spirit so clear and animated, that she could only wonder how it was she had missed happiness so long, when it needed only that she should stretch out her hand to take it.

With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

La vida y la muerte se habían convertido para mí en fronteras imaginarias y yo sería el primero en romperlas, solo con el fin de echar un torrente de luz en nuestro tenebroso mundo. Una nueva especie podría bendecirme como a su creador.

It is one thing to have the gift of seeing the spirits and hearing the Gods who move about us as we come and go; but it is a gift of darkness as well as light.

I remembered the effect that the view of the tremendous and ever-moving glacier had produced upon my mind when I first saw it. It had filled me with the sublime ecstacy that gave wings to the soul, and allowed it to soar from the obscure world to light and joy. The sight of the awful and majestic in nature had indeed always the effect of solemnizing my mind, and causing me to forget the passing cares of life.

from the midst of this darkness a sudden light broke in upon me – a light so brilliant and wondrous, yet so simple, that while I became dizzy with the immensity of the prospect which it illustrated, I was surprised that among so many men of genius, who had directed their inquiries towards the same science, that I alone should be reserved to discover so astonishing a secret.

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me.

I was like the Arabian who had been buried with the dead, and found a passage to life aided only by one glimmering, and seemingly ineffectual, light.

We can only hope to catch a glimpse of people's inner light through their actions and words, and even then it remains an enigma, but the perfect mystic's inner light cannot be contained within him for he does not follow the patterns trod by other men.

When you have become the embodiment of gratitude, think about how pure the water that fills your body will be. When this happens, you yourself will be a beautiful, shining crystal of light.

You were the leaves, basking in the sunlight. I was the root, growing in the darkness ~Danzo

We have walked through the darkness of this world, that's why we are able to see even a sliver of light. -Gaara

Tu ne trouveras pas de lumière sans ombres, elles sont indissociable comme l'amour et la haine

Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits;- on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.