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Quotes About Light

And Kevin looked up straight toward the light, and smiled as if he knew I was there.
~ Joyce Sweeney
Color is the melody of light.
~ Joyce Wycoff
Ella no se levantó para besarlo, recibió sin comprender la sonrisa que le vino desde la puerta; lo supuso alejándose lento, cegado por la luz del mediodía. Después ocupó en la cama el lugar donde había estado el hombre todo el tiempo, durante todo el breve pasado que era posible reducir a una escena.
~ Juan Carlos Onetti
Pensó que los recuerdos eran invisibles como la luz, y así como el humo hacía que la luz se viera, debía haber una forma de que fueran visibles los recuerdos.
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
un día seco y duro y caluroso, un día de tanta luz que los cielos parecían blancos y no azules—
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
una botella de vino blanco, pero el vino blanco no era blanco, sino dorado: el vino es luz aglutinada por la humedad.
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
El día empieza a medianoche, en mitad de la oscuridad. Y luego todo es luz.
~ Juan Gómez-Jurado
There we used to sleep out in the open at night, almost crushed by the stars. You felt you could reach out and touch them: they were so big, so uncountable, crackling with light, only slivers of blackness separating one from another.
~ Juan José Saer
quisiera que, viniendo despacio, como antes, desde la cocina, desde el patio, en la noche cítrica, una mano, materna o familiar, es decir, de dedos conocidos, en el viejo sentido, anterior a la explosión, a esta deriva sin dirección y sin bordes, encendiera, por fin, la luz, del cuarto sin lujo, austero, con, apenas, lo necesario para reconocer el honor y la constancia de lo que es, lo que es en su seguir siendo, mesa, jarra, botella, ventana y paraíso.
~ Juan José Saer
Night goes away, a black bull-- body heavy with mourning and fear and mystery-- it has been bellowing horribly, monstrously, in genuine fear of all the dead; and day arrives, a young child who wants trust, and love, and jokes, --a child who somewhere far away, in secret places where what ends meets what is starting, has been playing a moment on some meadow or other of light and darkness with the bull who is running away...
~ Juan Ramón Jiménez
And life takes place inside us, with the eternal light of an ecstatic day which is going on somewhere else. It is a beautiful thing, something true and not yet real, beautiful!
~ Juan Ramón Jiménez
Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end.
~ Juan Ramón Jiménez
Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.
~ Judith Jamison
I was content to dwell on the new idea that had come to me that all things and states were just varieties of light, and that in every form, light was the emanation and manifestation of God.
~ Judith Merkle Riley
A noxious stimulus, such as an angry person, crowds, noise, or bright light, can agitate us because our threshold for sensory overload is extremely low.
~ Judith Orloff
We all have our secrets, our sorrows, and our regrets. I tell myself, 'Embrace them; love yourself for your humanness.' Let the good light continue to shine on truth and all of who we are. Let there be sunlight in the shadows.
~ Judy Liautaud
Stoicism often presented itself, particularly at first, in a deliberately harsh light, emphasizing doctrines that are so far from common sense as to be paradoxical. However, Stoicism as a philosophy is holistic – that is, its parts can be developed separately, but ultimately the aim is to understand them all in relation to the other parts.
~ Julia Annas
When our days are shadowed and leached of meaning, when circumstances shower us with mud, how can we be sure to re-emit lessons we absorb in the sunlight?
~ Julia Baird
There are few things as startling as encountering an unearthly glow in the wild. Glow-worms. Ghost mushrooms. Fireflies. Flashlight fish. Lantern sharks. Vampire squid. Our forest floors and ceilings, our ocean depths and fringes are full of luminous beings, creatures lit from the inside. And they have, for many centuries, enchanted us, like glowing missionaries of wonder, emissaries of awe. Is there anything more beautiful than living light?
~ Julia Baird
There is always that choice, the light or the dark
~ Julia Green
The water is deep and dark. It shines like treacle in the lights from the boat. You'd go down, down, down.
~ Julia Green
Be no longer sorrow's victim. There's no reason now to fight. It's possible to choose each day To walk within the light. Give yourself completely–body, mind, and soul– To those who love and cherish you, and all the ones who know...
~ Julia K. Dinsmore
In this light your eyes look almost purple. Like black raspberries.' Belle laughed softly. 'You must be in a state of perpetual hunger. You keep likening me to fruit.
~ Julia Quinn
serene off-white candles
~ Julia Quinn