Quotes About Light

Dans ce trou noir ou lumineux vit la vie, rêve la vie, souffre la vie.

How convenient it is to declare that everything is totally ugly within the habit of the époque, rather than applying oneself to extract from it the dark and cryptic beauty, however faint and invisible it is.

Una noche, el alma del vino cantó en las botellas: ¡Hombre, hacia ti elevo, ¡oh! querido desheredado, Bajo mi prisión de vidrio y mis lacres bermejos, Una canción colmada de luz y de fraternidad!

Babel of stairways and arcades, it was an endless palace, full of reservoirs and cascades falling into a dull and darkened gold; and heavy cataracts, like crystal curtains, hung, in shimmering light, on metal walls.

J'ai vu parfois au fond d'un théâtre banal Qu'enflammait l'orchestre sonore, Une fée allumer dans un ciel infernal Une miraculeuse aurore; J'ai vu parfois au fond d'un théâtre banal Un être, qui n'était que lumière, or et gaze, Terrasser rénorme Satan; Mais mon cÅ"ur que jamais ne visite l'extase, Est un théâtre où l'on attend Toujours, toujours en vain l'Etre aux ailes de gaze.

Ce drag? mi-ai fi,Noapte,când stelele s-ar stinge:lumina lor îngân? un cântec cunoscut;iar eu vreau tot ce-i negru È™i gol È™i È™ters È™i mut!

La mujer es el ser que proyecta la sombra más grande o la luz más intensa en nuestros sueños

It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun

You can't beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.

There's a light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness.

we must bring our own light to the darkness.

since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light

I see a bright portion under the overhead light that shades into darkness and then into darker darkness and I can't see beyond that.

I once lay in a white hospital for the dying and the dying self, where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die, where on my knees I prayed for LIGHT, I prayed for l*i*g*h*t, and praying crawled like a blind slug into the web where threads of wind stuck against my mind and I died of pity for Man, for myself, on a cross without nails, watching in fear as the pig belches in his sty, farts, blinks and eats.

the impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly.

I give you soul. I give you wisdom and light and music and a bit of laughter. Also, I am the world's greatest horseplayer.

Today I will walk in the sun. I will simply walk in the sun.

We must bring our own light to the darkness. Nobody is going to do it for us.

the knife cuts into the sun. the plate breaks. the cat yawns.

if there is light it will find you. — Charles Bukowski, from "the harder you try," The People Look Like Flowers . (Ecco; First Edition edition(March 27, 2007)

and you turn over to your left side to get the sun on your back and out of your eyes

No me enorgullecía de mi soledad, pero dependía de ella. La oscuridad de la habitación era fortificante para mí como lo era la luz del sol para otros hombres.

morning, it touches the nerves quickly as if we were already in the hunter's sights. the body yawns and stretches in the light. the pilgrimage is about to begin.

no te precipites. si existe la luz ella misma dará contigo.