Quotes About Brightness

Their beauty was to the beauty of Miss Canal Zone as the glory of the Sun was to the glory of a lightning bug.

I mean loving the moon in the sky but leaving it there. Because even suppose you managed to bring it down, that would make the earth darker and not brighter, however good an idea it might have seemed when you first entertained it.

I am in the Pitte, but I have gone so deep that I can see the brightness of the Starres at Noon

Earthly life is full of soporifics, anaesthetics, pain-dullers. In fact, compared with Purgatory our whole life on earth will appear to have been life only half awake. In Purgatory we will be fully awake, fully sensitive, and fully cognizant of the evil of all of our sins. Our clear knowledge of God's brightness and beauty will make our clear knowledge of our own darkness and ugliness more painful than any similar light that shows up our most terrible defects here on earth.

And since perfected souls will be incapable of envy, all will rejoice in their lesser level of brightness, because it will be exactly what God wills for the common good; and all will identify with that common good as the fulfillment of their individual good, rather than a rival to it, as we fools do now.

60:19: "The sun shall no longer be your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you; but the LORD will be to you an everlasting light, and your God your glory.

We are so much louder together than apart. We are so much brighter together than apart.

En esta vida extraña, lo que quiero por encima de todo es que Tony sea feliz. Hace mucho tiempo que sabemos que no estábamos predestinados a enamorarnos, pero una parte de mí sigue ilusionándose por él. Quiero un mundo justo. Y en un mundo justo, Tony brillaría.

it will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner.

The narrow zone of color created by the firelight was like the planet Earth?a little freak of brightness in a universe of impenetrable shadows.

The cattle crouched round them in soft shadowy clumps, placidly munching, and dreaming with wide-open eyes. The narrow zone of colour created by the firelight was like the planet Earth - a little freak of brightness in a universe of impenetrable shadows

Tenía, bajo el cabello muy oscuro, un rostro de suprema blancura, de ese blanco mate y raso que es patrimonio exclusivo de los cutis muy finos. Ojos azules, largos, perdiéndose hacia las sienes en el cerco de sus negras pestañas. Acaso un poco separados, lo que da, bajo una frente tersa, aire de mucha nobleza o de gran terquedad. Pero sus ojos, así, llenaban aquel semblante en flor con la luz de su belleza.

The fourth elf was younger than the others. This showed in the perfection of her skin, the agility and speed of her movements, and in the brightness of her dress. Her long silk garment was yellow and gold and green, and she wore a blue silk choker with a trailing silver scarf at her neck matching another at her waist. There was fire in her dark eyes which added to her overpowering beauty.

He fell to his knees, and as the twin arcologies reduced him to nothing, he also came out of his annihilated anonymity to realize that he was special, he was unique, that his light shone brighter than all the million glowworm windows, for he alone knew nothing.

The universe was tight and mean and crammed into a wedge of brightness and music and skin a handful of decades long and no wider than your peripheral vision. People who believed otherwise were amateurs.

Life without love Is as night without day

Live in rooms full of light.

Clouds, too, can give light if only the sun shines on them.

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colourless when unbroken.

Es tan bella que el mismo sol la envidia.

Can you evade the dying of the brightness? Or do you evade only its warning? Where are you left if you miss the message the blue nights bring?

This book is called Blue Nights because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of promise, the dwindling of the days,the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the brightness. Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but they are also its warning.

because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of promise, the dwindling of the days, the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the brightness. Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but they are also its warning.

Love makes life a little brighter