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Light Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this…
- Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there
- Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is…
- Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.
- Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light.
- What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of you, a few…
- Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness…
- live in the space between chaos and shape. I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the…
- You are a pool of clear water where the light plays
- I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this…
- Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include myself. I know…
- But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.
- i realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future. It takes huge energy -speed of…
- Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen…
- The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist.…
- What is it that you contain? The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your twenty-three feet of…
- I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture…
- Lie beside me. Let me see the division of your pores. Let me see the web of scars made by your family's claws and you…
More Light Quotes
- There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. — Isaac Asimov
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people… — Margaret Atwood
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in… — Irving Babbitt