Quotes About Illumination

There's the way that light shows in darkness, and it is extremely beautiful. And I think it essentializes the experience of being human, to see light in darkness.

There is no meaning to light if there is no darkness.

Daylight reveals color; artificial light drains it.

It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.

Through the window the sun was shining like a beacon, nearly blinding her just as her parents lies had.

Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn't as bright as it could be.

Any photographer can tell you that lighting makes the difference in a photo. It takes an artist to make the light work with a photo.

Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.

You can at least say this for the blackout, he thought, it has given us back the stars.

The glow of the Power winked on around the women in the line, like a row of lanterns being lit.

Only one lamp in three or four was lit.

Human's life is a struggle between ignorance and illumination. Once a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in

The sun of quality," he wrote, "does not revolve around the subjects and objects of our existence. It does not just passively illuminate them. It is not subordinate to them in any way. It has created them. They are subordinate to it!

human's life is a struggle between ignorance and illumination.

The day had begun sombrely in grey cloud and mist, but had ended in a pomp of scarlet and gold. Over the western hills beyond the harbour were amber deeps and crystalline shadows, with the fire of sunset below. The north was a mackerel sky of little, fiery golden clouds. The red light flamed on the white sails of a vessel gliding down the channel, bound to a Southern port in a land of palms. Beyond her, it smote upon and incarnadined the shining, white, grassless faces of the sand-dunes.

the dark is your friend, isn't it? When you turn on the light, it makes the dark your enemy . . . and it glowers in at you resentfully.

No... it's lovely here when the dark is your friend, isn't it? When you turn on the light, it makes the dark your enemy... and it glowers in at you resentfully.

It's lovely when the dark is your friend, isn't it? When you turn on the light, it makes the dark your enemy... and it glowers in at you resentfully.

One moonbeam from the forehead to the crown

When the lightning struck, the whole prairie would be bathed for a second in white light.

Si por una emoción muy fuerte se llegan a encender todos los cerillos que llevamos en nuestro interior de un solo golpe, se produce un resplandor tan fuerte que ilumina más allá de lo que podemos ver normalmente y entonces ante nuestros ojos aparece un túnel esplendoroso que nos muestra el camino que olvidamos al momento de nacer y que nos llama a reencontrar nuestro perdido origen divino. El alma desea reintegrarse al lugar de donde proviene, dejando al cuerpo inerte»

The candle-light was dim, as though the darkness were trying to put it out.

Light had dawned in the utter darkness.

There are so many stars shining in the sky, so many beautiful things winking at you, but when Venus comes out, all the others are waned, they are pushed to the background.