Light Quotes - Page 183

The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.

New York is a glamorous city, constituted mostly of nobodies. They crave the lights, and if they tell you differently, they're lying. Only dreamers come to New York. As a matter of course, few people have control of their lives. You live at the whim of your boss, your landlord, your grocer, the stranger, the judge, the bus driver, the mayor who won't let you smoke. On the other hand, you live at the whim of your whims, and that is the most exciting thing there is.

A nation dies culturally and spiritually first. Its money and its army are the last to go, but go they do once the light goes out in the nation's soul.

When you speak of heaven, let your face light up...When you speak of hell well then, your everyday face will do.

When you speak of heaven, let your face light up; let it be irradiated by a heavenly gleam; let your eyes shine with reflected glory. But when you speak of hell, your ordinary expression will do.

I have no interest in returning to yesteryear. I love the conveniences and delights of today's time. I wouldn't go back if I could.

At first you can stand the spotlight in your eyes. Then it blinds you. Others can see you, but you cannot see them.

He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all facts which bore in any way on the variation of animals and plants under domestication and nature, some light might perhaps be thrown on the whole subject.

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.

Colored lights shone right across the northern sky, leaping and flaring, spreading in rainbow hues from horizon to zenith: blood red to rose pink, saffron yellow to delicate primrose, pale green, aquamarine to darkest indigo. Great veils of color swathed the heavens, rising and falling as light seen through cascading curtains of water. Streamers shot out in great shifting beams as if God had put his thumb across the sun.

Lighter is the wound foreseen.

There might not be so much of a difference between the side of Light and the side of Dark as you suppose. After all, without the Dark, there is nothing for the light to burn away.

I would remind people that this day of your life will never come again. Do not use one day of your life carelessly. It will never come again. You'll never see the person you're sitting across from in that light or in that way. You will never see the sunset twice. This day will never come again.

Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .

Do not let your light be dimmed by anybody who doesn't appreciate the dream that you're trying to pursue.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light.

The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two twilight figures, the shadow and the anima, step into our nightly visions or, remaining invisible, take possession of our ego-consciousness.

Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete.

I don't think the sunrise is as good as the moonlight.

I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by.

Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.

Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.

All the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre of green.