Quotes About Illumination

And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again, and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle...

Oh, I hope candles are going to glow in his life

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

Literary works quite often 'know' things that the reader does not know, or does not know yet, or perhaps will never know.

Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.

WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF YOU HADN'T SAVED HIM? Yes! The sun would have risen just the same, yes? NO Oh, come on. You can't expect me to believe that. It's an astronomical fact. THE SUN WOULD NOT HAVE RISEN. ... Really? Then what would have happened, pray? A MERE BALL OF FLAMING GAS WOULD HAVE ILLUMINATED THE WORLD.

Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.

That's one form of magic, of course. What, just knowing things? Knowing things that other people don't know.

Red sky at night, the city's alight.

I want to feel both the beauty and the pain of the age we are living in. I want to survive my life without becoming numb. I want to speak and comprehend words of wounding without having these words become the landscape where I dwell. I want to possess a light touch that can elevate darkness to the realm of stars.

This is what our community is in need of now. Fire. Fire that wakes us up. Fire that transforms where we are. Fire to see our way through the dark. Fire as illumination.

When you shine a bright light, a secret loses all its power.

her beam revealing ancient brick walls and the faint glimmer

Whoever moves from carelessness to vigilance, whoever overcomes his unwholesome deeds with wholesome actions, lights up the world, like the moon that merges from a cloud.

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

Hakikatleri örten bir perdedir karanl?k. Onun sakl? dünyas?na tek tan?kl?k edense peÅŸinden ayr?lmayan gölgesidir.

I began peering into the corners of the room, making sure all the shadows were cast by objects and obeying known laws of physics.

Stay to the lights

Beverly once read a science magazine article about bioluminescence, the natural glow emitted by organisms like fireflies and jellyfish, but she knows the dead also give off a strange illumination, a phosphor that can permanently damage the eyes of the living. Necroluminescence - the light of the vanished. A hindsight produced by the departed body. Your failings backlit by the death of your loved ones.

Whatever moves you bears divine insight.

Any time a magnet wiggles, no matter how small it is, or how fast or slow it wiggles, it makes some kind of light. Most light is made by little magnets called molecules, and our eyes are tuned to a very narrow range of it.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow

Pride and power] are the same except that pride leaves the lights on and power can do it in the dark.

The sun is nice but it lights things up so much that you can't see very far... The night time is better. It stretches your soul to the stars.