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Quotes About Illumination

Daylight was coming outside, but it was not only that: courage cast its own light.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.
~ James Joyce
A wave of yet more tender joy escaped from his heart, and went coursing in warm flood along his arteries. Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of, or would ever know of, broke upon and illumined his memory..
~ James Joyce
Like the tender fire of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illumined his memory. He longed to recall to her those moments, to make her forget the years of their dull existence together and remember only their moments of ecstasy.
~ James Joyce
their tunics bloodbright in a lampglow, black sockets of caps on their blond cropped polls.
~ James Joyce
the park's so dark by kindlelight. But look what you have in your handself!
~ James Joyce
Dinle! O iç burkucu bungunluk çöktü. Dinle!-Akl?n ya da gövdenin böylesine eylemlerine saÄŸl?ks?z denebileceÄŸine inanm?yorum.- KonuÅŸuyor o. SoÄŸuk y?ld?zlar?n ötesinden gelen c?l?z bir ses. SaÄŸduyunun sesi. KonuÅŸ bakal?m! Aman,konuÅŸ yine,ayd?nlat beni!Bu sesi hiç duymam??t?m.
~ James Joyce
the crowd, bathed in light, his posture and trim
~ James Lee Burke
When I closed my eyes, a lantern lit up the inside of my head, as if I had punched a hypodermic loaded with morphine into my arm.
~ James Lee Burke
She laughed, and as she did, Potts felt as if he were watching a dark, silent mountain suddenly blink to life, illuminated by a hundred lights from a small, quaint village that had lived on the mountainside for a hundred years, the village appearing out of nowhere, all the lights aglow at once. Every feature of her face glowed. He found himself wanting to tell her every sorrow he ever knew
~ James McBride
The stars are always shining...even when you can't see them.
~ James Michael Rice
Fortunately, we could all see pretty well in the dark. Especially Iggy.
~ James Patterson
A little light show before they cut his cake once and for all, the bastards.
~ James Patterson
I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
~ Walter Jon Williams
In a lot of ways knowledge kills fear. Once you know who the boogie man is, once you know what's under the bed, it can still be frightening but that fear of the unknown is gone.
~ Leigh Whannell
If the sky never grew dark, we would not be able to clearly see the stars.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A star earns the right to shine the day it is born.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Looking up at the stars only proves you admire them, but shining your light proves you are like them.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
It is impossible for darkness to reign in the presence of a star.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Shine your light so bright, and no one will need a telescope to see you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Light cannot enter a dark room without illumining it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
It is not the fault of the stars that they shine brightly, but the fault of our eyes that they cannot handle light.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
This dark brightness that falls from the stars.
~ Pierre Corneille
Light, God's eldest daughter...
~ Thomas Fuller