4,631 Quotes About Light

Did you know that embryologists have recently captured the moment of conception via fluorescence microscopy? What they discovered is that at the exact moment a sperm penetrates an egg, the egg releases billions of zinc atoms that emit light. Sparks fly, literally! That miracle of conception is a microcosm that mirrors God's first four words.

Ghastly gray light congealed on the land

From the depths of silenceThe feeling rushes upA warrior of brightnessEmerging from the darkWith words of pure abandonment,A lust for emptiness, through artOf pure suffering and tormentThat sparks a beating heartA spark of light in darkness,And darkness be his light,When all is lost in numbnessSit still, no need to fight.

Each day shines with the new waves of light. One perceives that into the visionary intuition. Conversely, another even disregards to execute that, whereas, it determines one's success and failure.

Multiply me when necessary,make me disappearwhen peremptory.Transform me into light when there is shadow,into a starwhen in the desert.

What greater torment than to see that light, and then to see it eternally withdrawn?

Man must have light. He must live in the fierce full constant glare of light, where all shadow will be defined and sharp and unique and personal: the shadow of his own singular rectitude or baseness. All human evils have to come out of obscurity and darkness, where there is nothing to dog man constantly with the shape of his own deformity.

I will meet you in the light, in the morning one,when raindrops fall on your mild skinand your blue eyes sparkle better than the sky. (fragment from "I will meet you then", chapter Hope)

I was travelling through a tunnel of light. The more I travelled, the lighter I felt. I was filled with a kind of ecstasy that I had never known before. I was moving closer and closer to the source of this beautiful light. All I wanted was to merge with that light. But suddenly I fell, like a flower falling off its stem, and returned to my body.