Quotes About Illumination

Beware, the light seemed to say, for I come to burn and judge.

Emerson said, "To the dull mind, all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light." The illumined mind has shifted to the light.

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.

To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.

Give light, and people will find the way...

I separated the fat from the meat served to me, melted it, and so made oil—here is my lamp." So saying, the abbe exhibited a sort of torch very similar to those used in public illuminations.

Entonces aquel escrito acusador que había visto en poder de Villefort, y que había tenido en sus manos, se representaba en su imaginación; cada línea se le aparecía iluminada en la pared como el Mane, Tecel

Hava hâlâ, grimtrak bulutlar aras?nda kaybolan uçsuz bucaks?z ufkun seçilebileceÄŸi kadar ayd?nl?kt?.

Iat? È™i luminiÈ™ul, ca o pat? în mijlocul p?durii. Lumina slab? ce coboar? din stele, aÈ™a cum ar spune Corneille, se strânge m?nunchi în acel loc; p?durea ne înconjoar? de toate p?rÈ›ile cu str?jile ei neclintite.

It would have made a fine picture, worthy of Rembrandt, the gloomy winding stairs illuminated by the reddish glare of the cresset of Gryphus, with his scowling jailer's countenance at the top, the melancholy figure of Cornelius bending over the banister to look down upon the sweet face of Rosa, standing, as it were, in the bright frame of the door of her chamber, with embarrassed mien at being thus seen by a stranger.

In ten minutes, fifty thousand lights glittered all the way from the Palazzo di Venezia to the Piazza del Popolo, and back up from the Piazza del Popolo to the Palazzo di Venezia. It was like a vast congregation of will-o'-the-wisps, impossible to envisage if you have never seen it: imagine that all the stars in the sky were to come down and dance wildly about the earth, to the accompaniment of cries such as no human ear has ever heard elsewhere on its surface.

Our mother had taught us that when the moon was white, reappearing after its absence, it was showing us that what had been hidden could easily become whole again.

Can you picture it at all, Celie? Because I felt like i was seeing black for the first time. And Celie, there is something magical about it. Because the black is so black the eye is simply dazzled, and there is the shining that seems to come, really from moonlight, it is so luminous, but their skin glows even in the sun.

Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live!

Everything sounds fairer in the daylight.

Quando nós brilhamos eles todos voltam, sabe? A luz que produzimos juntos revela tudo que já foi perdido para a escuridão.

James Williams was right: our attention is a kind of light, one that clarifies the world and makes it visible to us. In Provincetown I could see more clearly than I ever had before in my life - my own thoughts, my own goals, my own dreams. I want to live in that light - the light of knowing, of achieving our ambitions, of being fully alive - and not in the menacing orange light of it all burning down.

Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest.

More light! Give me more light!

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Death to the killers, bringing light to life.