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Quotes About Light

Under the moon, the bright white moon, Lies a pool, a flat silver pool, Among the brakes and brambles, And black-heart pines. Falls a stone, a living stone, Cracks the moon, the bright white moon, Among the brakes and brambles, And black-heart pines. Shards of light, swords of light, Ripple 'cross the pool, The quiet mere, the still tarn, The lonely lake there. In the night, the dark and heavy night, Flutter shadows, confused shadows, Where once …
~ Christopher Paolini
Logic only took you so far. Sometimes the cure to the dark was to find another flame burning bright.
~ Christopher Paolini
Sometimes the cure to the dark was to find another flame burning bright.
~ Christopher Paolini
The oldest fears were the most powerful. If there were gods, he thought for sure that the first and greatest—and evilest—would be the god of darkness. Light required effort. Light was a struggle. But the dark was easy, and it had existed before all else and would be there to envelop the universe in its smothering cloak when the last dim stars guttered out at the end of time.
~ Christopher Paolini
The seconds tick. They always do. The power of an entire sun cannot stop them even for a moment, and so death comes between the moments, like a thief of light in the dark.
~ Christopher Pike
Home should never be dark or full of shadows and secrets. It should be bright and full of open doors. It should be full of stories wanting to be told.
~ Travis Thrasher
A dark world only makes the brighter moments shine that much more.
~ Travis Thrasher
There's no light bulb lit. I half wonder if there's any power to light one. Aunt Alice? A round goblin comes out of the darkness of the hallway.
~ Travis Thrasher
In recent years, astronomers have discovered that not all stars shine. There are some stars of such tremendous density, instead of radiating outwards they only draw light in. Therefore, they have named these stars, "Black Holes." Fortunately, the universe has enough Black Holes already. If you have light, shine forth.
~ Tzvi Freeman
The ultimate blissful pleasure is that which we created beings give back in return—when a lost soul returns, a hidden spark of meaning is restored to its place, a piece of the world that seemed unsalvageable, ugly and sinister is transformed so that it shines—even if but for a moment—with its essential, primordial light.
~ Tzvi Freeman
Torah is light; it tells us the place of each thing. Shine it bright and heal the world.
~ Tzvi Freeman
So the darkness is there for the sake of light. Evil exists so that good might also be. Pain exists to make room for healing.
~ Tzvi Freeman
To truly banish evil, you must march on the clouds and never look down. You must climb higher until you attain a place so filled with light there is no crevice left in which darkness may hide.
~ Tzvi Freeman
They dwell in my light, while I dwell in unbearable darkness, the source of that light.
~ Umberto Eco
The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the hearts it inflamed.
~ Umberto Eco
For three things concur in creating beauty: first of all integrity or perfection, and for this reason we consider ugly all incomplete things; then proper proportion or consonance; and finally clarity and light, and in fact we call beautiful those things of definite color. - William
~ Umberto Eco
three things concur in creating beauty: first of all integrity or perfection, and for this reason we consider ugly all incomplete things; then proper proportion or consonance; and finally clarity and light, and in fact we call beautiful those things of definite color.
~ Umberto Eco
I was becoming addicted, Diotallevi was becoming corrupted, Belbo was becoming converted. But all of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical from the real.
~ Umberto Eco
Porque de tres cosas depende la belleza: en primer lugar, de la integridad o perfección, y por eso consideramos feo lo incompleto; luego, de la justa proporción, o sea de la consonancia; por último, de la claridad y la luz.
~ Umberto Eco
Having reached the end of my poor sinner's life, my hair now white, I grow old as the world does, waiting to be lost in the bottomless pit of silent and deserted divinity, sharing in the light of angelic intelligences;
~ Umberto Eco
Having come from the light and from the gods, here I am in exile, separated from them. —Fragment of Turfa'n M7
~ Umberto Eco
Having come from the light and from the gods, here I am in exile, separated from them.
~ Umberto Eco
Çünkü güzelliÄŸi yaratan, üç ÅŸeyin uyumudur: her ÅŸeyden önce, bütünlük ya da yetkinlik - bu yüzden yetkin olmayan ÅŸeylere çirkin deriz; sonra gerekli orant? ya da uyum; son olarak da ayd?nl?k ve ???k; gerçekten de rengi aç?k seçik olan nesnelere güzel deriz.
~ Umberto Eco
For three things concur in creating beauty: first of all integrity or perfection, and for this reason we consider ugly all incomplete things; then proper proportion or consonance; and finally clarity and light, and in fact we call beautiful those things of definite color.
~ Umberto Eco