Quotes About Illumination

Life is all about seating and lighting.

Nash has been the sun lighting up the horizon of my life, outshining everything else in my world. I'd thought once that he was to good to be true. Turns out I was right.

My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.

The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting.

It's the moonlight. Makes all the girls look pretty.

Brighter than magnesium wire - the light within

there are shadows because there are hills.

While the Gods are powerful, we learn little about them. It is only in their day of decadence that a strong light beats into heaven.

So dark was the afternoon that some of the lights had been turned on inside, and the great building suggested a tomb, miraculously illuminated by spirits of the dead.

The mystery, like so many mysteries, was explained.

efforts not so much to acquire knowledge as to dispel a little of the darkness by which we and all our acquisitions are surrounded.

Even the sun directs our gaze away from itself and to the life illumined by it.

Che cosa vedi adesso? [...] Luce, solo luce, che trasforma tutto il mondo in giocattolo. Molto bene, faremo gli occhiali così.

Her angel's faceAs the great eye of heaven shined bright,And made a sunshine in the shady place.

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

Human fates are like planets Like a star that emerges from the dark – and meets another star – shines for a second before disappearing again into the dark – [it is] in this way – in this way a man and a woman meet – glide towards one another are illuminated in love's flames – to then disappear in their separate directions – Only a few meet in a single large blaze – where they both can be fully united

There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him. If I switch it on my eyes adapt to it and I can see only the small pool of light it makes in front of me; I am isolated. Leaving the flashlight in my pocket where it belongs, I remain a part of the environment I walk through and my vision though limited has no sharp or definite boundary.

Light is good from whatever lamp it shines.

And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday.

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks.

And the day star arise in your hearts.

Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

If you love truth, be a lover of silence. Silence like the sunlight will illuminate you in God and will deliver you from the phantoms of ignorance.… In the beginning we have to force ourselves to be silent. But then there is born something that draws us to silence.… If only you practice this, untold light will dawn on you in consequence … after a while a certain sweetness is born in the heart of this exercise and the body is drawn almost by force to remain in silence.