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Quotes About Illumination

Sarah...loved the way the light lit the silence first thing in the morning.
~ Niamh Boyce, The Herbalist
Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will subtly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward.
~ Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
Every Journey has it's own set of dark tunnels, diversions, exits and sources of lights. If we are not focussed enough, we will keep wandering and wandering in the dark tunnels.
~ Sail
For those living in a dark cave... sometimes all it takes is for someone to throw us a lifeline.
~ Martin R. Lemieux
With my music, with what I do, I would like to bring a light into the world.
~ Michael Jackson
A lighthouse is not interested in who gets its light! It just gives it without thinking! Giving light is its nature!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.
~ Louis D. Brandeis
If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
~ Galileo Galilei
We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves.
~ Arthur Dove
The source of all light is in the eye.
~ Alan W. Watts
To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sets of lines can say something about the direction and nature of the light. They are used by great fresco painters as a sign for shade.
~ John French Sloan
Therefore, I reasoned that study of the cell cycle responsible for the reproduction of cells was important and might even be illuminating about the nature of life.
~ Paul Nurse
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The stars of heaven gives light.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The Sun is the light of the day.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
One by one, the electric lights ringing the lawn were ignited. Each one, as it burst into brilliance, erased a constellation from the evening sky.
~ Tim Westover, Auraria
Torches just blind you. On a clear night like this, the moon and the stars are enough.
~ George R.R. Martin
Moon is the light from a lantern in heaven
~ Munia Khan
Look, moonI turned silver for you.
~ Sanober Khan
All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.
~ Voltaire
You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car.
~ Bruce Springsteen
What is philosophy? It is something that lightens up, that makes bright.
~ Victor Cousin