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Quotes About Luminous

It was a vast, luminous dream in which his whole life seemed to stretch out before him like a landscape on a summer evening after rain
~ George Orwell
with their blue flickering flames.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Ridges of muscle on his stomach rose under his skin like divisions on a slab of chocolate. He held her close by the light of an oil lamp, and he shone as though he had been polished with a high-wax body polish.
~ Arundhati Roy
Somewhere the moon has fallen through a window and broken into thirty pieces of silver.
~ August Wilson
He smiled like a sun lamp.
~ Spider Robinson
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Desolating any luminous conditions except those of functionality, 24/7 is part of an immense incapacitation of visual experience.
~ Jonathan Crary
She was so radiant, it was like the other-light was already on her.
~ Jonathan Stroud
We all shine on in the moon and the stars and the sun.
~ Ben Sherwood
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
~ Gordon Korman
The moon, almost full, was pinned like a medal to the chest of the sky.
~ Gregory David Roberts
The root of all that exists, Samsara and nirvana, is one's own mind. Primordially, mind is emptiness. Merge into the sky-like absolute expanse, Empty, luminous, beyond clinging. Outside, inside; eyes open or closed, Day, night; asleep or awake: No difference. During practice, after practice, Mind, appearances: Blend them. Continuously, without wavering, Merge completely with this vibrant, sky-like state.
~ Shabkar
my spirit was holding its breath... there were planets, workaday, rolling silent by, and luminous moons, their backs to us, and troughs where atoms turned inside out.
~ Sharon Olds
Now his grin lit his face with a sunny halo.
~ Sharon Shinn
In the time that man has been here there is one thing that all have seen and gazed upon in wonder. Luna.
~ Christopher Paul Flateau
Let the world have its way with you, luminous as it is with mystery and pain— graced as it is with the ordinary.
~ Mary Oliver
But living like this is for me the difference between a luminous life and a ho-hum life. So be it! With my whole heart, I live as I live. My affinity is to the whimsical, the illustrative, the suggestive—not to the factual or the useful. I walk, and I notice. I am sensual in order to be spiritual.
~ Mary Oliver
Our strength shall serve as a luminous sun toward which all intelligence may blossom. And the impervious shelter beneath which you will prosper.
~ Matt Forbeck
Les nuits luisantes sont plus joyeuses que les grands jours de soleil.
~ Maupassant Guy De
She walked down the hill and she found relief in the unnatural stillness of the earth around her, the stillness of full light without sun, of leaves without motion, of a luminous, waiting silence.
~ Ayn Rand
There was poetry as well – a luminous world always present beneath the surface, a world that people might offer up as a gift to me, if I only remembered to ask
~ Barack Obama
All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is luminous.
~ Thomas Carlyle
She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.
~ Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl
Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star.
~ Ernest Cline