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Quotes About Illumination

He was her death—and yet, her blade of life, of clarity, to cut through the thick roiling swamp of personal darkness.
~ Vera Nazarian
Los verdaderos poemas son incendios. La poesía se propaga por todas partes, iluminando sus consumaciones con estremecimientos de placer o de agonía.
~ Vicente Huidobro
the light shines to only those that need it
~ Unknown
They've made a peace treaty of their own', Eva used to say, when we passed an illuminated window. (In reference to the strict German laws on light blackouts.)
~ Victor Klemperer
When you are risen on the eastern horizon You have filled every land with your beauty... Though you are far away, your rays are on Earth.
~ Akhenaton
I have found, beauty is the illumination of the mind.
~ John J. Geddes
In his mind she lay at his lap with his fingers gliding thru her straight beautiful hair. He smiles and says" your beauty lights up everything around you.
~ Rumi
Physical features count little unless they are illumined from within.
~ Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.
~ Ellsworth Kelly
I don't like the way I look in a car. The lighting is very bad.
~ Amanda Bynes
I am in the Pitte, but I have gone so deep that I can see the brightness of the Starres at Noon
~ Peter Ackroyd
Then he struck his Lucifer upon his shoes and the dreadful looking hole were thus illuminated it were airless with the sour evidence of mice who have found food and blankets and think themselves in a position to begin a family
~ Peter Carey
to live in perpetual darkness allows one to see things more clearly, if that is not a contradiction in terms. It has allowed me to look into men's souls more deeply, to see them for what they are and not what they present to the world. It has been a most illuminating experience.
~ Unknown
The island took the Lighthouse.
~ Peter Lerangis
Del inclinado tejado colgaban mágicas hileras de lámparas que refulgían cual estrellas y brillantes faroles de aceite que proyectaban luz… John Milton
~ Philip Pullman
Perhaps, she thought calmly, whatever moves the alethiometer's needle is making the Aurora glow too.
~ Philip Pullman
But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.
~ David Levithan
Now she's lit by the warm orange spreading from the horizon as not-quite-day, becomes not-quite-night
~ David Levithan
A todos nos gusta adornar el repaso de la vida propia de aquello que fue luminoso, para morir entre luces y no en la oscuridad del desengaño.
~ David Trueba
it will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner.
~ Dean Koontz
Por qué tolerar la oscuridad? Todo ya está aquí y está claro si sabemos mirar con la atención debida.
~ Yann Martel
The illumination that came from the ceiling made everything gloomy and gave me the feeling of having been forgotten by the world.
~ Yasmina Reza
Lighting one candle with another candle- spring evening
~ Yosa Buson
At dawn, a ray of sunlight slanted from the steeple of St. Antoine's church, glanced off a window on Grant Street and finally alighted on a beer can lying in the middle of the pavement.
~ Unknown