Quotes About Illumination

He still wasn't sure exactly when it happened...It wasn't as if a light suddenly blinked on; it was more like a sunrise, where the sky grows lighter and lighter almost imperceptibly before you realized it was morning. page 147

The nice thing about putting on your glasses in the dark is that you know you could see better if it were light, but since it is dark the glasses make no difference at all.

The singular power of literature lies not in its capacity for accurate representation of mass commonalities, but its ability to illuminate the individual life in a way that expands our understanding of some previously unseen or unarticulated aspect of existence.

Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It's called the sun. Let's go get us a little.

She's the light. Before, you can fumble around in the dark or manage in the dim. You don't even know it's dim because that's the way it's always been. But then, she's the light. Everything changes. If the light shuts off, or worse, you're stupid enough to shut it off yourself, it's a hell of a lot darker than before.

Åžtiu. Da, aÅŸa este. Ea este lumina. Înainte, poÅ£i s? umbli prin întuneric sau s? te descurci în lumina slab?. Nici m?car nu ÅŸtii c?-i slab?, pentru c? aÅŸa a fost mereu. Dar apoi, ea e lumina. Totul se schimb?. - Dac? lumina se stinge sau, mai r?u, dac? eÅŸti destul de prost încât s? o stingi singur, este cu mult mai întuneric decât era înainte.

Where there is a great deal of light, the shadows are deeper. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

While shadows are never dispelled completely, it is due to them the light shines bright.

At sunrise, everything is luminous but not clear

In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring shape-outlines we have to blink against.

Give me clarity. Give me reasons. Give me answers. Flash.

Please note, you future dead persons, whenever you shut off a fluorescent bulb or a cathode ray tube and see a residual photon-green glow, that glow is trapped human ectoplasm. Ghosts are forever being snared in lightbulbs.

The candelabras.

He didn't much like reading novels - he preferred history or philosophy - or poetry, although he could read only a little poetry at a time, because when a poem spoke to him it was as if a brilliant, agonizing light had been turned upon some tiny, private cell of his soul.

With the mind we analyze data, while in the heart we wait for illumination on it.

Perhaps sunlight had always been luminous, and doorways signs of greater passage than that of one room to another. But she'd not noticed it until now.

We are the star and the darkness it peirces

There were no chambers now along the passageway and consequently no lights. There was a glow up ahead, however—fitful and cold, but bright enough to illuminate both the ground she stumbled over, which was bare earth, and the silvery frost on the walls.

There is inside it something sun.

La única forma de saber cuánto tiempo te has perdido en la oscuridad es que te saquen de ella.

The stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall.

Les grands périls ont cela de beau qu'ils mettent en lumière la fraternité des inconnus.

Et iam prima novo spargebat lumine terras

A festive din now rose and echoed through the palace halls. Lighted lamps hung from the coffered ceiling rich with gold leaf, and torches with high flames prevailed over the night.