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Quotes About Illumination

Instead of finding her in the shadows, this visit would anchor something between them in rising daylight.
~ Anne Mallory
You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.
~ Annie Dillard
I personally believe in progress. I think one of the most debilitating and harming things you can do to a child is to keep them in the dark.
~ Dove Cameron
OR. For night is the time for thieves, the light for truth.
~ Euripides
You love the light so much? I do, I love its hopes.
~ Euripides
The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness?
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
He was handsome then if never before, bound for one of those immortal moments which come so radiantly that their remembered light is enough to see by for years.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Was everyone followed in the moonlight?
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Her face, the face of a saint, a viking Madonna, shone through the faint motes that snowed across the candlelight, drew down its flush from the wine-colored lanterns in the pine. She was still as still.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Her face, ivory gold against the blurred sunset that strove through the rain…
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Then Nicole. Rosemary saw her suddenly in a new way and found her one of the most beautiful people she had ever known. Her face, the face of a saint, a viking Madonna, shone through the faint motes that snowed across the candlelight, drew down its flush from the wine-colored lanterns in the pine. She was still as still
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Do you mind if I pull down the curtain? -Please do. It's too light in here.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
the green and cream twilight faded, and the fire-red, gas-blue, ghost-green signs began to shine smokily through the tranquil rain.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
being alone with each other in the dark universe, nourished by its only good, warmed by its only lights.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
karanl?klar? görmek, karanl?klardan ????? almakt?r.
~ Fernando Pessoa
The heat of the sun played incontrovertibly on every inch of me.
~ Flann O'Brien
Who's there?" the voice from inside said and there was a quality about it now that seemed final. The knob rattled and the voice said peremptorily, "Who's there, I ast you?" Parker bent down and put his mouth near the stuffed keyhole. "Obadiah," he whispered and all at once he felt the light pouring through him, turning his spider web soul into a perfect arabesque of colors, a garden of trees and birds and beasts.
~ Flannery O'Connor
And she said such strange things! To her own mother she had said—without warning "Woman! do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what you are not? God!" she had cried sinking down again and staring at her plate, "Malebranche was right: we are not our own light. We are not our own light!
~ Flannery O'Connor
Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
~ Madeleine Stowe
What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.
~ Barbara Mandrell
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
~ Blaise Pascal
The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
~ Jacob Bronowski
One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much.
~ Bill Sienkiewicz