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Quotes About Illumination

Listen, listen, if I know my world, which is doubtful, but if I do, I know it is chaotic, mean and vicious, with laws cast in the wrong moulds, a fair conception gone awry, in short an awful place, and yet, and yet a place capable of glory in those rare moments when a little light breaks forth, and something is not explained, not forgiven, but merely illuminated.
~ John Banville
A man was standing at the end of the hallway, just outside an open door, from where a great light shone, illuminating him almost as a god.
~ John Boyne
cómo te salva Dios Padre?". JACOBO: "Por su gracia". PRUDENCIA: "¿Cómo te salva Dios Hijo?". JACOBO: "Por su justicia, su muerte, su sangre y su vida". PRUDENCIA: "¿Y cómo te salva Dios Espíritu Santo?". JACOBO: "Por su iluminación, por su renovación y por su preservación".
~ John Bunyan
The study of Euclid put him into a compassionate and tranquil frame of mind, and illuminated, among other things, that his thinking and feeling had recently been crippled by confusion and despair.
~ John Cheever
Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.
~ August Wilson
It is in the contrast of light and dark that design happens.
~ Unknown
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.
~ Henry David Thoreau
My latest works are these things with light bulbs.
~ Jim Hodges
In like a dimwit, out like a light.
~ Walt Kelly
I believe in naturalistic lighting, which isn't to say natural light.
~ Rachel Morrison
People don't realize that lighting can change the whole look of a place and the feel.
~ Bobby Berk
Lighting is key for me for every project.
~ Gauri Khan
No one can look bad when you've been lit for six hours.
~ Kate Winslet
Lucknow University looks amazing all lit up during night time.
~ Mohit Raina
Manchester is a past master at bringing light to dark times.
~ Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
Thank you, Merciful Lord, for having arranged to provide flowers with fragrance, glow worms with their glow, and to make the stars in the sky sparkle.
~ Diane Ackerman
There's a great many things hard to fathom in darkness that set themselves straight in the light of day.
~ Diane Setterfield
He said, The word for moonlight is moonlight.
~ Don DeLillo
She was shining a light on us, she was coming into being, endlessly being formed and reformed as the muscles in her face worked at smiling and speaking, as the electronic dots swarmed.
~ Don DeLillo
I'm at that certain stage in a night of drinking and talking when I see things clearly through a small opening, a window in space.
~ Don DeLillo
A clean light soaked into the shaggy bark of a eucalyptus and it was a powerful thing to see, the whole tree glowed, it showed electric and intense, the branches ran to soft fire, the tree seemed revealed.
~ Don DeLillo
Why try to describe it? It's enough to say that everything in our field of vision seems to exist in order to gather the light of this event.
~ Don DeLillo
He looked at the stars again, and he realized that it's not the stars that create light, but rather light that creates the stars.
~ Don Miguel Ruiz