Quotes About Brightness

The strange amber twilight I'd lived with was gone, and in its place was some terrible new brightness. I'd gone from feeling lost in a dream to lost in wakefulness, as if I might never sleep again.

The light God sent was his Son: the same light that had been shining unextinguished in the world's darkness all along, seen now in full brightness.

Sad brightness": the sadness of my exile, of the waste I have made of my life; the brightness of God's presence and forgiveness, the joy of the recovered desire for God, the peace of the recovered home. Such is the climate of lenten worship; such is its first and general impact on my soul.

Je suis rongé d'une tristesse auprès de laquelle la nuit la plus sombre est une lumière éblouissante

So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.

One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of invoking a ghost. Maybe the 'Iliad,' crowded with names, is more than a poem. Maybe it's a dangerous piece of the brightness of both this world and the next.

I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.

All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.

La lucidité est la blessure la plus rapprochée du soleil.

figure of the ideal Aryan, with blond hair and blue eyes – hair the colour of the sun, eyes the colour of the sky. The supreme embodiment of Western humanity is Christ, whose whitening in Christian iconography was such that his 'hair and his beard were given the colour of sunshine, the brightness of the light above, while his eyes retained the colour of the sky from which he descended and to which he returned' (Bastide 1967: 315).

Our unveiled gaze receives and reflects the brightness of God until we are gradually turned into the image that we reflect. —2 Corinthians 3:18

Pale yellow sunshine fell through high windows and slashed the air.

If I'm going to burn, it might as well be bright.

Iris] squeezed his hand. Don't lose hope, Frank. Rainbows always stand for hope.

Is it fair your life burns so short and bright? Death had asked. No such thing as fair, Frank told himself. If I'm going to burn, it might as well be bright.

The morning was full of sunlight and hope.

He was quite portly, with a profusion of gray hair, and small blue eyes which age had robbed of much of their brightness but none of their penetration.

The world no longer shone, but it was very bright ... Strange world! Impossible world!

He thought about the stars. He remembered what they looked like from his bedroom window. What made them shine so brightly, he wondered, and were they still shining somewhere even though he could not see them? Never in my life, he thought, have I been farther away from the stars than I am now.

the smallest glimmer, the tiniest shimmer.

the sun burnt my little day old eyes

She shone like a bright strange star shining in those empty lifeless halls, I write.

como si una nube hubiera ocultado el sol.

The sun shone cheerfully, as on a fine day in hell.