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132 Illuminated quotes by 112 unique authors

The ultimate horror movie for a really un-illuminated being is an enlightened person. They are scared of others seeing what they are all about and… — Frederick Lenz
Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely… — Amos Bronson Alcott
Switzerland still has a huge share of the watch market, all advertised at the airport on illuminated hoardings. Gosh, they are ugly. — Simon Hoggart
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. — Susan Sontag
In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine. — Milan Kundera
It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking… — Jonathan Safran Foer
...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you… — Alexandre Dumas
The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday… — Franz Kafka
That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through centuries in fact,… — Susan Vreeland
Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated… — James Joyce
The bus roared through Indiana cornfields that night; the moon illuminated the ghostly gathered husks; it was almost Halloween. I made the acquaintance of a… — Jack Kerouac
Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread… — Diane Setterfield
When you find yourselves a little gloomy, look around you and find somebody that is in a worse plight than yourself; go to him and… — Lorenzo Snow
From the movie "Everything is Illuminated" based on a book by Jonathan Safran Foer: I have reflected many times upon our rigid search. It has… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated — Jonathan Safran Foer
In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and… — Brennan Manning
And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body that still longs… — Meg Rosoff
The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awakens passion. May I say once more - this essential energy… — Brennan Manning
There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated. — R. Scott Bakker
But nowadays everybody's a comedian, even the weather girls and continuity announcers. We laugh at everything. Not intelligently anymore, not with sudden shock, astonishment, or… — Douglas Adams
the darkness is a cresting wave. It sweeps me up out of my body until I float among the stars, those tine bright pores on… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview) — Patti Smith
The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within… — Aberjhani

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