Quotes About Illumination

More light and light, more dark and dark our woes.

The sun itself sees not till heaven clears.

Lei chinò il capo per ascoltarlo. Jim notò che in qualunque ombra sedessero, c'era sempre una luce che cercava la pelle pallida e liscia della fronte di lei, la curva delle sue guance. Luce, c'era sempre luce per i suoi occhi.

Il pensiero di Demelza gli scaldò la mente e lo illuminò come l'arrivo delle candele aveva illuminato la sala.

Y si todo esto sucede en un laboratorio? ¿Bajo sólo una lámpara de día y miles de millones por la noche?

Harper saw a dark young guy, trying to stop from laughing so much. By some trick of perspective the tracers illuminated Sam's profile with a halo of fireflies. Something about him touched Harper, so that long after the gunship had swung low and away Sam's image remained on his retina.

In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, "Let there be light." And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a lot better.

We believe what we see. So did Columbus. What do you do when you're in the dark?

Religion?" Mr. Kumar grinned broadly. "I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.

The pages of history are red with the blood of illuminated "saints" who were murdered by their religions for actually achieving the advertised spiritual rewards.

The encounter with Campbell was, for me and many other people, a life-changing experience. A few days of exploring the labyrinth of his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces produced an electrifying reorganization of my life and thinking. Here, fully explored, was the pattern I had been sensing. Campbell had broken the secret code of story. His work was like a flare suddenly illuminating a deeply shadowed landscape

Life is like that: you press a button and life lights up. Except that the girl didnt know which button to press.

We don't know the value of darkness until we have destroyed it.

We all carry the question in the deepest part of our being. We turn on the lights, power up our brains, and fill every crack and crevice with illumination and distraction. But in what shadows remain, there is still that question, waiting for us. Death is waiting for us. Paradoxically, the less space we allot to it, the larger it grows. Perhaps that is why so many of us fear the dark.

What we do to our bodies with antibiotics, we do to consciousness with light.

The science of life… is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.

Curiosity is the light in the darkness.

Every sunrise will give the illumination in any man's hope what the moonlight cannot provide.

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Human experience, like the stern-lights of a ship at sea, illumines only the path which we have passed over.

And I saw a light-filled man emerge from the aforesaid dawn and pour his brightness over the aforementioned darkness; it repulsed him; he turned blood-red and pallid, but struck back against the darkness with such force that the man who was lying in the darkness became visible and resplendent.

I wanted to house myself in SL's thinking. It was so big and well lit, like a large house sitting solid on the bank of a river.

The setting sun has lit the sky on fire, set the tops of the trees ablaze.

At night, the human world looks as though it's full of fallen stars.