Quotes About Illumination

I light candles because I want to have candles lit, not because I need to see!

I didn't want to see you, but you invaded my world. Every dark corner you found a way in bringing light to the lifeless and lost." Eva

While we converse with her, we mark No want of day, nor think it dark.

He strode down the empty street, cleaving the low-lying mists that swirled like incandescent cloaks in the gaslight.

The dull, hazy light played along the polished blade like water.

My evening star. If the sun burned out tomorrow, your flame would light the world.

When you're moving in the positive, your destination is the brightest star.

At night a candle's brighter than the sun

Finnigin found himself outside on the street, his vision disturbed by swirling motes of light and shade.

Behold! For this is his blood, within which dwells the light of truth!

Melandra found that the word Grigori acted like an cantrip-it opened doors and minds.

The sun needs the contrast of the night for its shine to have meaning.

Othman came to fill the dark space in the doorway, his eyes lit by blue sparks that seemed to shine from somewhere deep within him, perhaps through centuries of time.

His eyes had become vaporous orbs, burning with intense blue light, and his features were dark and indistinct. His pale hair glowed like the reflection of moonlight on virgin snow, moving languorously around his shoulders as if lifted by a breeze.

I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.

Sight is about contrast. You cannot see an object if there is nothing to contrast it against.

If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination.

In Arizona, we're at 7,000 feet, so we're above half of the world's atmosphere. It's crisp but hard, a side-raking light that can be revealing but doesn't have the softness that maritime air has.

I'd like to believe that my kiss has made you see me in a whole different light.

Her memories splashed my nights with a magical illumination. Her thoughts were my intoxication!

Light poured out multiplies light poured in.

There is no dark, darker than the distorted great light.

Light jumping out of window is staring the dark from afar.

for personalities are not a single immutable colour, like white or blue, but rather illuminated screens, and the shades we reflect depend much on what is around us.