The light has gone out of our lives. . . Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light. . . and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it. . . For that light represented the living truth.
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.
to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe. " from Pavilion of Women page 292
In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.
Integrity is the light that shines from a disciplined conscience.
I follow my inner star. I AM a shining example of Love and Light.
I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight.
I have been shown in darkness, light [and] have learned that, even in prison, one can be free.
Darkness is where we begin and where we end. We don't usually see light traveling in darkness of space because we only can see its reflection on substance.
In paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error.
the word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers. . . one of their spotlights that they have particularly focussed on 'Art'. . . (abstraction was) not so much what you could paint but rather what you could not paint. You could not paint a house or a tree or a mountain. It was then that subject matter came into existence as something you ought not have.
Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion of any rational order of things. Reign of matter, of gold, of machine, of number, it no longer possesses breath, or liberty, or light.
People think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.
It is better to adopt the simplest explanation, even if it is not simple, even if it does not explain very much. A bright light is not necessary, a taper is all one needs to live in strangeness, if it faithfully burns.
you're an insomniac, you tell yourself: there are profound truths revealed only to the insomniac by night like those phosphorescent minerals veined and glimmering in the dark but coarse and ordinary otherwise; you have to examine such minerals in the absence of light to discover their beauty, you tell yourself.
The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.
Help me reach a friend in darkness; Help me guide him through the night. Help me show thy path to glory By the Spirit's holy light. . . .
The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind of refraction that is a little bit more complicated than that of light in glass or water.
Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass of fantasy, - into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without any spots.