Lighting Quotes (page 87)

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• love
• light
• evening

Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of light. Mark Strand

• light
• evening
• attempts

Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog. C. S. Lewis

• good
• light
• may

Twas a good lady, 'twas a good lady: we may pick a thousand salads ere we light on such another herb. William Shakespeare

• beautiful
• beauty
• light

Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light. Victor Hugo

• light
• language
• lights

I had lines inside me-a string of guiding lights. I had language. Jeanette Winterson

• look
• light
• fire

She touches me The jungle lights up with incinerating fire Looks like a flaming serpent I look into her eyes I see a movie flickering Car crashes People kicking corpses Men ripping their tracheas out and shaking them at the sky I think to myself: I don’t want to survive this one I want to burn up in the wreckage Cooking flesh in the jungle Henry Rollins

• nature
• hard
• death

Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred; since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other; only the indolence of human nature finds it so hard to pierce through to the other side. Elizabeth Goudge

• knowledge
• wisdom
• fly

"Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect one must delve into studies, but to obtain wisdom, nothing but the flow of divine mercy is needed; it is as natural as the instinct of swimming to the fish, or of flying to the bird. Intellect is the sight which enables one to see through the external world, but the light of wisdom enables one to see through the external into the... Hazrat Inayat Khan

• rain
• city
• drunk

Silence in the shell of a city, no baby crying, no car honking, no ambulance shrieking, no lovers moaning, no drunks throwing up in the alley, no lights, nothing but wind and rain and snow in its season and rust and a rattling of open doors and carcass smell. It was a possibility like a brain tumor or a scorpion bite. Anne Roiphe

• light
• clouds
• behind

There is always light behind the clouds Louisa May Alcott

• true
• beautiful
• world

Even if you have the wit to look by yourself in a bush away from the other children, there are not many bell crickets in the world. Probably you will find a girl like a grasshopper whom you think is a bell cricket. And finally, to your clouded, wounded heart, even a true bell cricket will seem like a grasshopper. Should that day come, when it seems to you that the world is only full of grasshoppers, I will think it a pity that you have no way to remember tonight’s play of light, when your... Yasunari Kawabata

• eyes
• light
• star

Banned! My eyes light up, I think I see stars. Anything that has been banned by anyone must be something I’d like. Elizabeth Wurtzel

• eyes
• light
• fire

From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes. Neil Peart

• light
• moments
• fear

The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion...one would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it. Emile M. Cioran

• deep
• light
• blissfully

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state, Joseph Campbell