Quotes About Illumination

La tierra parece aclararse con luz propia, con una luz fresca y silenciosa que sale de las peñas y de las cosas desnudas.

He who looks in through an open window never sees so many things as he who looks at a shut window. There is nothing more profound, more mysterious, more fertile, more gloomy, or more dazzling, than a window lighted by a candle. What we can see in the sunlight is always less interesting than what goes on behind the panes of a window. In that dark luminous hollow, life lives, life dreams, life suffers.

Everyone can get the gold of the Sun. (Tout le monde cueille l'or du soleil)

He is no longer the prince moon; he is the one of the stars. (Il n'est plus le prince lune ; il est celui des étoiles)

There's light enough for wot I've got to do.

I want," said Defarge, who had not removed his gaze from the shoemaker, "to let in a little more light here. You can bear a little more?

This scroll, majestic in its severe simplicity, illuminated a little slip of front garden abutting on the thirsty high-road, where a few of the dustiest of leaves hung their dismal heads and led a life of choking.

E, assim como as neblinas da manhã haviam se dissipado, quando, há muito tempo, eu deixara a ferraria, as neblinas da noite dissipavam-se agora, e em toda a vasta expansão iluminada que me deixavam avistar, não vi a sombra de uma nova despedida de Estella.

The radiance of that which wants to be born illuminates the shadows, bringing them into the light of awareness that they may be healed.

Your path is illuminated by the light Yet darkness lets the stars shine bright.

Literature — a lighthouse to lost souls.

Literature lights the ages.

Dawn is a friend of the muses.

With a single candle, night burns into infinity.

There are plenty of people holding flashlights casting shadows, offering directions. Perhaps it's best if you light your own way.

...my candle to the Milky Way...

Haloes of heat shimmer from the guests and their hosts. The candles burn brighter. The plump flies of dusk now congregate around the plates of cheese and crackers on the wooden table. From the cut glass bowl of children's punch, sweet rosy fumes spiral up into the air.

The big hall, badly lighted by a few contribution candles

Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right

Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

For years I tried to help people with simple things, such as tension relief through breathing and relaxation, but all they wanted were the drugs. They wanted to numb themselves. They did not want to face their fears or feel better through their own efforts—and they certainly did not want to be illuminated.

Vivían atormentados. Carentes de todo salvo de obscuridad. Demasiado tarde, ¿era demasiado tarde para ver la luz?

A la luz del farolillo, cuya dudosa claridad se perdía entre las espesas sombras de

La gloria! La gloria es un rayo de luna