Quotes About Light

Astros extinguíos! No aclare vuestra luz mis oscuros designios.

The sun itself sees not till heaven clears.

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious; Her vestal livery is but sick and green And none but fools do wear it; cast it off. It is my lady, O, it is my love! Oh, that she knew she were!

said to the man who stood at the Gate of the Year, "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown." And he replied, "Go out into the darkness, and put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way." Ã¢â'¬â"¢* May that Almighty Hand guide and uphold us all.57

Yet if she did not quite exist in the full flood of sunlight, which is the hackneyed metaphor for good health, she was comfortably and safely far away from that abyssal darkness down into which she had nearly strayed.

Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.

Let us accept the natural order in which we move. Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such as they must be in this world of space and time. Let us treasure our joys but not bewail our sorrows. The glory of light cannot exist without its shadows. Life is a whole, and good and ill must be accepted together. The journey has been enjoyable and well worth making - once.

Lei chinò il capo per ascoltarlo. Jim notò che in qualunque ombra sedessero, c'era sempre una luce che cercava la pelle pallida e liscia della fronte di lei, la curva delle sue guance. Luce, c'era sempre luce per i suoi occhi.

The light had flooded the land long before the sun was up, and the sea, where wisps of mist clung to it, looked like milk in a pan being heated to make cream.

Their lives had been different; but one day perhaps he would open this strange book of war, and by the vivid light of personal danger read the lessons it contained.

Ah, horrible war, amazing medley of the glorious and the squalid, the pitiful and the sublime, if modern men of light and leading saw your face closer, simple folk would see it hardly ever.

I have no idea who dreamed up the idiotic notion that summer vacations require light reading. Just the opposite, since the light books get read—if any reading's done at all—before bedtime, after the office work and house work, when we lack the concentration required for heavier fare.

How light the raindrop's contents are; how gently the world touches me. From View With a Grain of Sand

A przecie? serce mi biÅ'o. I ziaÅ' boskoÅ›ciÄ… bÄ™dÄ…c czymÅ› przepysznie urzekajÄ…cym i ujmujÄ…cym w pustce bezmiernej tej nocy, ?ródÅ'em ciepÅ'a i Å›wiatÅ'a oddychajÄ…cego. ?aska. Cud niepojÄ™ty: dlaczego niewa?no?? ta stalÄ… siÄ™ wa?na? Fryderyk? Czy Fryderyk to wiedziaÅ', czy widziaÅ', czy jemu tak?e to wpadÅ'o w oko?...

Wir sind voller Begegnungen, Begegnungen ohne Dauer und ohne Abschied, wie die Sterne. Sie nähern sich, stehen Lichtsekunden nebeneinander entfernen sich wieder: ohne Spur, ohne Bindung, ohne Abschied.

BECKMANN: Ich soll leben, sagst du! Dieses Leben leben? Dann sag mir auch: Wozu? Für Wen? Für was? DER ANDERE: Für dich! Für das Leben! Deine Straße wartet. Und hin und wieder kommen Laternen. Bist du so feige, daß du Angst hast vor der Finsternis zwischen zwei Laternen? Willst du nur Laternen haben? Komm, Beckmann, weiter, bis zur nächsten Laterne.

In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, "Let there be light." And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a lot better.

It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.

Una campaña de publicidad: ¿había acaso trabajo más útil y más fútil, más ligero y pesado, más hábil y pendejo, todo en un mismo producto?

Seeing his somber face light up, I shouted, "Come now, we're very wrong to corrupt such a man, forcing him to join us in the misery of laughter!"   Toil

The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.

Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by

Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.

To my mind, faith is like being in the sun. When you are in the sun, can you avoid creating a shadow? Can you shake that area of darkness that clings to you, always shaped like you, as if constantly to remind you of yourself? You can't. This shadow is doubt. And it goes wherever you go as long as you stay in the sun. And who wouldn't want to be in the sun?