Luminous Quotes

173 quotes by 135 authors

I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazareneâ€¦.No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence… — Albert Einstein
Every second of the search is an encounter with God. When I have been truly searching for my treasure, every day has been luminous...I've discovered… — Paulo Coelho
This dim coolness of my room was to the broad daylight of the street what the shadow is to the sunbeam, that is to say… — Marcel Proust
For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething… — H P Lovecraft
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the… — Mark Twain
Are you the one with the blue eyes?" "Actually, my eyes are usually described as golden...and luminous. — Cassandra Clare
An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light. — Edward Frederic Benson
I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes shining through, huge,… — Henry Miller
And I want to rise up, throw my arms open for a vast embrace, address an ample, luminous discourse to the invisible crowds. I would… — Vladimir Nabokov
It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world. — Hermann Hesse
Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm and ardent love… — Sigrid Undset
This time Magnus answered it, his voice booming through the tiny entryway. "WHO DARES DISTURB MY REST?" Jace looked almost nervous. "Jace Wayland. Remember? I'm… — Cassandra Clare
No thinking being lives who, at some luminous point of his life of thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges of futile efforts… — Edgar Allan Poe
However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and… — Honore de Balzac
Oh you, unceasing sun, to me Your particles communicate The luminous essence of God, Are you our God? I do not know. Intoxicated, I say… — Unknown Author
In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of… — Cormac McCarthy
There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of… — Karl Marx
He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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