Quotes About Illumination

God does not die on the day we cease to believe in a personal deity. But we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance of wonder renewed daily, the source of which is beyond all reason.

Almost overnight, the streets glow with meaning. She reads inscriptions on coins, on cornerstones and tombstones, on lead seals and buttress piers and marble plaques embedded into the defensive walls—each twisting lane of the city a great battered manuscript in its own right.

Draw the darkness ... and it will point out the light which has been in the paper all the while. Inside this world is folded another." from "Afterworld.

Dust floats through the feeble beam of the flashlight: ten thousand particles, turning softly, twinkling.

After a while, he is learning, even total darkness is not quite darkness.

Starlight rains onto every crenellation.

A spark in the night.

What light shines at night! He never knew. Light will blind him.

It was the summer when fireflies showed up in Saint-Malo, and their father was very excited, building long-handled nets for his boys and giving them jars with wire to fasten over the tops, and Etienne and Henri raced through the tall grass as the fireflies floated away from them, illuming on and off, always seeming to rise just beyond their reach, as if the earth were smoldering and these were sparks that their footfalls had prodded free.

Esa, se da cuenta Marie-Laure, es la base de su miedo, de todos los miedos. Que una luz cuyo resplandor no se puede detener brille sobre ti y le indique a la bala hacia dónde dirigirse.

Firelit rooms lined with books - these are the places in which important things happen.

here comes the light, nameless and intangible, streaming 93 million unobstructed miles through the implacable black vacuum to break itself against a wall, a cornice, a column. It drenches, it crenellates, it textures, It throws the city into relief. The coins fall through the slot; the illumination box clicks on.

La luz dentro de ella era como un faro, y nunca más volvería a la oscuridad.

pointing the way ahead and throwing pure, white light on to his immediate surroundings. Alex was at the start of a long tunnel

Even the brightest sunlight could hide many dark and ugly secrets.

'Psychedelic' means mind-expanding.

Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed light on issues that need to be brought to the world.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

walk forwards in the radiance of the past

The way Carl's face lit up just then made Elizabeth realize that their brief encounter was probably one of the happiest moments of his life. How sad for him, she thought, her heart beginning to go out to this pitiable man.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Most writing is collective consciousness made manifest, tinged to some degree by the author's individuality. Great writing is a specific consciousness made manifest, illuminating the world in a way that we've never seen before and that yet makes sense. 222

To the east, the night grew a faggot of luminous grey, then seashell opalescence that dimmed the stars. There came the long, bell-tolling movement of dawn striking across a broken horizon.

The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed. We feel threatened by such demands. "I already know the important things!"we say. Then Changer comes