Luminous – Quotes

For a week, almost

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, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He recognized her despite

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 final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to … Read more

The great actors are

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. Ethel Barrymore

A colour is a

A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth. Ernst Mach

Nowledge which… transcends the

Nowledge which… transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an illusion but, on the contrary, a glorious and luminous reality. Just how it was achieved remains subject to debate. Ernest Gellner

Often, when you see

Often, when you see yourself on the screen, you feel like a sweater that’s been put through the washing machine. You have the impression of having done something full and luminous, and suddenly, when you see it on the screen, it’s turned back into a tiny little thing. Emmanuelle Beart

Heroism is no extempore

Heroism is no extempore work of transient impulse–a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness by which, after a moment’s insulting radiance, it is ruthlessly swallowed up,–but a steady fire, which darts forth tongues of flame. It is no sparkling epigram of action, but a luminous epic of character. Edwin Percy Whipple