Top 266 Luminous Quotes & Sayings

All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

The conclusion is inescapable that non-luminous matter exists beyond the optical galaxy.

The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.

and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable.

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 only night.

The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.

You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.

Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being.

Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.

let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

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 eternity

Never forget your real identity. You are a luminous conscious stardust being forged in the crucible of cosmic fire.

I did theater at Spelman until I graduated from there, and I got to work with such luminous actresses as Diana Sands in 'Macbeth.'

Merge your consciousness with that of a luminous being ... and then from there to eternity.

I guess I could Debra Winger in any number of things. She's so luminous - it's a birth defect.

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light.

Life is a luminous pause between two mysteries that are yet one.

If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.

Maid of the luminous grey-eyes, Mistress of honey and marble implacable white thighs and Goddess, chaste daughter of Zeus.

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.

I am luminous with age.

A book should be luminous not voluminous.

Certein bodies... become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the capacity of becoming luminous afresh through heat is restored to them by the action of a spark, and also by the action of radium.

You stupefied me. We waxed, Carnivores, late and alight In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous.

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable

Those who love and who have a sense of purity live in a very luminous band of awareness.

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions

Confidence is the willingness to be as ridiculous, luminous, intelligent, and kind as you really are, without embarrassment.

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 power of stimulating it.

We are luminous beings. Beneath our transient physical bodies we are made of intelligent light.

Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.

Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions.

A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.

Religious bigotry is a dull fire - hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from it.

I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.

The reordering of the luminous fibers is a very sophisticated art. It's not something anyone should ever undertake without supervision.

Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.

That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality - your soul, if you will - is as bright and shining as any that has ever been. Bright as Shakespeare’s, bright as Gandhi’s, bright as Mother Theresa’s. Clear away everything that keeps you separate from this secret luminous place. Believe it exists, come to know it better, nurture it, share its fruits tirelessly.

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

Luminous, unfearful; high-priestesses, our fervour shall banish all evil.

Our dreams are luminous, a cast fire upon the world. Morning arrives and that's it. Sunlight darkens the earth.

He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!

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 the unsaid and unseen.

The same inexpressible Truth is experienced in two ways: as Self-luminous Silence, or as the Eternal Play of the One.

For, in life, it is in the darkest zones one finds the brightest beauty and the most luminous wisdom.

Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.

Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver - words like "enthralling" and "luminous."

I'm more to my family than a wonderful, luminous cook. I'm also a wonderful, luminous butler and a wonderful, luminous chauffer. And checkbook. I'm a luminous checkbook, too.

PICTURE OF LIGHT is luminous and genuinely transcendent.

Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth.

Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.

My goal is never to copy. Create a new style, clear luminous colors and feel the elegance of the models.