Quotes About Light

it's that particular connection between melancholy and humor that Klibansky, Panofsky, and Saxl examined in Saturn and Melancholy (1964). Just as melancholy is sadness made light, so humor is comedy that has lost its physical weight (that dimension of human carnality that, however, makes Boccaccio and Rabelais great) and casts doubts on the self, the world, and the entire network of relations they form.

The empire is being crushed by its own weight," Kublai thinks, and in his dreams now cities light as kites appear, pierced cities like laces, cities transparent as mosquito netting, cities like leaves' veins, cities lined like a hand's palm, filigree cities to be seen through their opaque and fictitious thickness.

on the façade of the house the lighted candles opened eyes of gold within the window frames.

This is the aim of my explorations: examining the traces of happiness still to be glimpsed, I gauge its short supply. If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.

Ali nije samo to: u dnevnoj svjetlosti u tom difuznom blijedom sjaju bez sjena nalazim tamu još guš?u od no?ne.

only by having a clear idea what virtue is can I practice evil with a light heart.

The fact is that I find in the day's light, in this diffused, pale, almost shadowless luminosity, a darkness deeper than the night's.

Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you're a flame in the dark.

You can not make yourself whole again by brooding one hundred percent of the time on the darkness of the world. We are the light of the world.

from a Second Vatican Council document: "The truth is that only in the mystery of the incarnate Word does the mystery of man find true light.

from a Second Vatican Council document: "The truth is that only in the mystery of the incarnate Word does the mystery of man find true light."4

If it were merely sin that existed, and not the resulting transience as well, contrition would be appropriate', said Athanasius, and goes on: `But God becomes human and subjects himself to "the law of death" so as to take away death's power over human beings and his creation, and in order to bring immortality to light.'16

If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up.

Licht holt uit. Een mens zit ook zo vol gaten. Een mens zou geslotener moeten zijn. Op den duur kan men niets meer binnenhouden.

As candle lights candle, [the spouses's] desire for each other kindles a desire for the Love of which their love is but a reflection.

I'm actually a huge fan of digital as well. I appreciate how that technology opens the doors for filmmakers who never had access to that level of quality before. However, I do think film itself sets the standard for quality. You can talk about range, light, sensitive, resolution -- there's something about film that is undeniably beautiful, undeniably organic and natural and real.

I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Happiness can be found in even the Darkest of places. If only one remembers to turn on the light. -Albus Dumbledore

Your path is illuminated by the light Yet darkness lets the stars shine bright.

Keep your flame lit, and you will never feel darkness.

Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.

It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.

In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.