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Quotes About Illumination

Die Trichter Zwei Trichter wandeln durch die Nacht. Durch ihres Rumpfs verengten Schacht fließt weißes Mondlicht still und heiter auf ihren Waldweg u.s. w.
~ Christian Morgenstern
Overhead, several bare bulbs glow like tiny moons.
~ Christina Baker Kline
The stars rise, the moon bends her arc, Each glowworm winks her spark
~ Christina Rossetti
You're like a candle in a dark room, throwing light backwards and forwards.
~ Christopher Barzak
Even those who were ignorant of the word of God were not entirely deprived of divine light,
~ Christopher De Bellaigue
Queer, how her own desperate need of light seemed to throw such brilliance over the affairs of the members of her family. She carried her need like a many-batteried pocket spotlight, illuminating emotional corners in other people, but she walked in darkness behind it. Her wrist wouldn't bend to turn it on herself.
~ Helen Hull
Deep in the muddled darkness six copper pheasant feathers glowed in a cradle of blackthorn.
~ Helen Macdonald
In a psychomantium glass topples darkness. Things appear as they really are, people appear as they really are. Visions are called from a point inside the mirror, from a point inside the mind.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Por qué esperar al Cielo? Los que buscan la luz están simplemente cubriéndose los ojos. 3 La luz ya está en ellos. 4 La iluminación es simplemente un reconocimiento, no un cambio.
~ Helen Schucman
6 La paz de Dios refulge en mí ahora. 7 Que todas las cosas refuljan sobre mí en esa paz, y que yo las bendiga con la luz que mora en mí.
~ Helen Schucman
When all is said and done, a single word, "understanding," is the beacon light of our studies —MARC BLOCH
~ Helmut Walser Smith
All lovers in the world are alike: they fall in love by chance; they see each other, and are attached to each other by the features of their faces; they illuminate each other by the fierce preference which is akin to madness; they assert the reality of illusions; and for a moment they change falsehood into truth.
~ Henri Barbusse
A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.
~ Henri Matisse
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
~ Henri Matisse
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illumination the fog that surround
~ Henri Matisse
Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The inward light is forever striving to gather enough additional light to penetrate the fog of our senses.
~ Henry S. Haskins
There is in God, some say, A deep but dazzling darkness, as men here Say it is late and dusky, because they See not all clear. O for that night! where I in Him Might live invisible and dim!
~ Henry Vaughan
The Jew is that sacred being, who has brought down from Heaven the everlasting fire, and has illumined with it the entire world. He is the religious source, spring, and fountain out of which all the rest of the peoples have drawn their beliefs and their religions.
~ Leo Tolstoy
And the light by which she had been reading the book of life, blazed up suddenly, illuminating those pages that had been dark, then flickered, grew dim. and went out forever.
~ Leo Tolstoy
And from the height of this perception all that had previously tormented and preoccupied him suddenly became illumined by a cold white light without shadows, without perspective, without distinction of outline. All life appeared to him like magic-lantern pictures at which he had long been gazing by artificial light through a glass. Now he suddenly saw those badly daubed pictures in clear daylight and without a glass.
~ Leo Tolstoy
At each flash of lightning not only the Milky Way but the bright stars also disappeared, but as soon as the lightning died out they reappeared in the same places, as if thrown by some unerring hand.
~ Leo Tolstoy
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
pues no todo en el fuego es claridad, sino también leña bruta, y ceniza, y humo...
~ Leopoldo Lugones