Quotes About Luminous

NASA Apollo 16 photo, No. 16-19238 clearly showing a rather enormous, luminous cigar-shaped or cylindrical object casting its shadow on the lunar surface.

we contemplated the stars beyond the Moon, big as pieces of fruit, made of light, ripened on the curved branches of the sky, and everything exceeded my most luminous hopes, and yet, and yet, it was, instead, exile. I thought only of the Earth. It was the Earth that caused each of us to be that someone he was rather than someone else; up there, wrested from the Earth, it was as if I were no longer that I, not she that She for me.

Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.

Space is designated as empty, yet its exact nature cannot be verbalized. Similarly the mind is designated as luminously clear, yet its exact nature is empty, with no ground for definition. Thus the self-nature of mind is and has been from the very beginning like that of space.

This is the mortal world. It is a world where nothing is lost, where all is accounted for while yet the mystery of things is preserved; a world where they may live, however briefly, however tenuously, in the failing evening of the self, solitary and at the same time together somehow here in this place, dying as they may be and yet fixed forever in a luminous, unending instant.

he talked quite naturally while we ate — about the difficulty of finding words to describe the luminous mist, and why one has the desire to describe beauty. Perhaps it's an attempt to possess it, I said. Or be possessed by it; perhaps that's the same thing, really. I suppose it's the complete identification with beauty one's seeking. The mist grew brighter and brighter.

When I walked home at night, things got white around the edges and it seemed I had no past, no memories, that I had been on this exact stretch of luminous, hissing road forever

There were no stars, or if they were they shone like volcanic glass.

He smiled, and his face was like the sun.

As if he heard me, he smiled, and his face was like the sun.

and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.

She was taller than I was, taller than any woman I had ever seen. Her black hair was loose down her back, and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.

El gajo de la luna se empequeñeció más y más, pero yo seguí mirándola incluso cuando se me entornaron los párpados para sentir el brillo azafranado de su figura sobre los párpados.

Now Helen"—Odysseus paused, his arm half-extended to the priest—"remember that I swear only in fellowship, not as a suitor. You would never forgive yourself if you were to choose me." His words were teasing, and drew scattered laughter. We all knew it was not likely that one so luminous as Helen would choose the king of barren Ithaca.

Unlike the earth, the sea is not separated from the sky; it always harmonizes with the colors of the sky and it is deeply stirred by its most delicate nuances. The sea radiates under the sun and seems to die with it every evening. And when the sun has vanished, the sea keeps longing for it, keeps preserving a bit of its luminous reminiscence in the face of the uniformly somber earth.

A man who can do everything fully consciously becomes a luminous phenomenon.

Be luminous. Don't adapt yourself to the circumstances around you, but change them to be better. Always take your sunshine wherever you go.

Certein bodies... become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the capacity of becoming luminous afresh through heat is restored to them by the action of a spark, and also by the action of radium.

That was how her mother was, catching all the available light in any room and making it part of her.

It was what Joseph had missed most during the war, all the small, scattered pieces of the precious and luminous ordinary, evidence that life insists on continuing.

The future will be gorgeous and reckless, and words, those luminous charms, will set us free again.

My goal is never to copy. Create a new style, clear luminous colors and feel the elegance of the models.

Perking at six foot one, and slender with the hands of a pianist, Malachy sported a mop of unruly black hair and sapphire eyes that sparkled like midnight suns. His luminous youth was something to marvel at indeed.

When you utter words which reinforce the truth—that every human being is divine and luminous—and when you also utter words that inspire others' souls, then you have made others truly alive.