Quotes About Light

Buddha had said to make a light of yourself, and if Laurie had anything to say about it, one day he'd glow.

It has been a marvellous age of invention: radio, aeroplane, electric light, the telephone, and fellatio.

When it was backlit like that, but there was still enough light that you could see the mustang vines growing up the sides and poking out through the windows, the modernist concrete blocks of the old JCPenney store looked every bit like a Mayan ruin.

Even those who were ignorant of the word of God were not entirely deprived of divine light,

Hay mucha gente para quien la cultura es la cosa más seria, el medio que ilumina el alma y constituye la salvación; algo con lo que no se debe jugar. Pero la cultura y el arte son las primeras víctimas de esa ilusión, pues pone sobre ellos una carga que no puede llevar.

If you're afraid of your shadow falling across Another life, shine less brightly upon yourself.

Cuando expones la bulliciosa naturaleza del miedo a la clara luz de la serenidad, todos los miedos desaparecen en el acto.

This bride will give up the selfish riches of this world to inherit the earth. She will be so ruined and wrecked by love that she will run full force into the darkness. This will cause His light through her to explode into the world—all for love's sake.

The daylight, he remembered, was a sort of medicine. Truly nothing was as acute or upsetting in the first light of day.

A brilliant white light beat pitilessly down, like the fierce desert sun at midday on the French Foreign Legion; the glittering floor dazzled the eye with the cruel desert glare. We walked slowly through the cereals.

Queer, how her own desperate need of light seemed to throw such brilliance over the affairs of the members of her family. She carried her need like a many-batteried pocket spotlight, illuminating emotional corners in other people, but she walked in darkness behind it. Her wrist wouldn't bend to turn it on herself.

It is light that dismantles each moment, I had thought then. Light proves it one thing or another. Darkness does not judge.

Dark is just light turned inside out, thinks Maddy. Why be afraid of that?

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.

Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.

The windows were wide open,

and my eyes slipped to the white panels of cut light in the branches behind them.

The light today is beguiling. The rooftops and spires seem within a hand's grasp; a chess-set town glittering among bare trees, as if I could pick up the brute tower of the university library and move it six places north, set it down somewhere else.

Further up the hill the hedges are higher, and by the time I get to the top the track has narrowed into grass. Cow parsley. Knapweed. Wild burdock. The argillaceous shimmer of tinder-fine clay. Drifts of chalk beneath. Yellowhammers chipping in the hedges. Cumulus rubble. The maritime light of this island, set as it is under a sky mirrored and uplit by sea.

Now the light is thickening into real dusk and it starts to rain. And with the rain and the dusk comes the smell of autumn. It makes me shiver happily.

writing those lines in his small kitchen, the light wet on the oilskin tablecloth, the night close against the window.

The light that filled my house was deep and livid, half magnolia, half rainwater. Things sat in it, dark and very still.