Quotes of: Lightness Keyword

The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself. When the smoky clouds hung low in the west and the red sun went down behind them, leaving a pink flush on the snowy roofs and the blue drifts, then th...

Willa Cather

Several people toss and turn in their sleep, startled by the lines of the newspapers in their dreams, knives out, lights out, lights out, knives out!

Contemporary Surrealist Prose

We were just us, broken and bruised, fucked-up and messy, and together we were everything we never thought we could be.

The Dark Light of Day

For the first time in a long time a bit of something I was unfamiliar with crept up inside me. If I hadn’t known better, I’d have thought it was hope.

The Dark Light of Day

Destiny's Gate is filled with darkness and light. If you identify with the darkness, this is a good sign as we all have to embrace the darkness within us in order to heal and be brought into the Light as One.

Destiny's Gate

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

A Great and Terrible Beauty

If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?

Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore

Only a sense of lightness, giddy and dizzying, like flight—of a burden that didn't belong to me being lifted. Suddenly I knew the truth and the lights surrounding me exploded.

Bloodrose

The eyes were large and gray and in a certain light looked soft, gentle, and even innocent. Then the light would change, the innocence would vanish, and the eyes looked like year-old ice.

Briarpatch

The eyes were larger and gray and in a certain light looked soft, gentle, and even innocent. Then the light would change, the innocence would vanish, and the eyes looked like year-old ice.

Briarpatch

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.

City of Fallen Angels

Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology

It's always thoughts of family that drive me crazy, and it's always my friends who bring me back.

Agents of Light and Darkness

Through all people, the Music of Love would pour, bringing light to the swords that sped through the darkness. And the light of their blades would lead the constellations to their destination.

The Address Of Happiness

It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.

Anthology of Black Humor

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 angels.

Art and Lies

---on her best days, she glimpses the limitless span of millennia behind her: millions of years, tens of millions.

All the Light We Cannot See

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

All the Light We Cannot See

War is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute silk.

All the Light We Cannot See

It was hard to live through the early 1940s in France and not have the war be the center from which the rest of your life spiraled.

All the Light We Cannot See

I beliebe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.

The Handmaid's Tale