Luminous Quotes

173 quotes by 134 authors

Be happy and free. Be able to see psychically and understand what is going on in the universe, what your luminosity is about, and how… — Frederick Lenz
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, come forth from deep within me with Christmas luminous beauty. — Edward M Hays
The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets… — Jack Gilbert
What of the souls already released from their bodies? We believe that they are overwhelmed in that vast sea of eternal light and of luminous… — Bernard of Clairvaux
Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. — Isadora Duncan
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the… — Hans Hofmann
Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see… — Victor Hugo
Every phase of our life belongs to us. The moon does not, except in appearance, lose her first thin, luminous curve, nor her silvery crescent,… — Lucy Larcom
To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it. — Jeanette Winterson
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness… — Virginia Woolf
...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious… — Terry Pratchett
Our dreams are luminous, a cast fire upon the world. Morning arrives and that's it. Sunlight darkens the earth. — Charles Wright
We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life. — Nikos Kazantzakis
For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to… — Helen Keller
Perhaps sunlight had always been luminous, and doorways signs of greater passage than that of one room to another. But sheâ€™d not noticed it until… — Clive Barker
Girl lithe and tawny, the sun that forms the fruits, that plumps the grains, that curls seaweeds filled your body with joy, and your luminous… — Pablo Neruda
He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in hummingbirds,… — Tom Robbins
A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of… — Charles Baxter
I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere. — Carrie Fisher

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