“Luminous words, like those drops of light we see in fireworks.”

— Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert 253

French moralist and essayist 1754–1824

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

“We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine… forever.
-Tōshirō Hitsugaya (Bleach)”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

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

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author

“A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud
Enveloping the earth.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dejection: An Ode

St. 4
Dejection: An Ode (1802)

“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”

Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153) French abbot, theologian

From, On Loving of God, Paul Halsall trans., Ch. 11

“Shadow is not the absence of light, merely the obstruction of the luminous rays by an opaque body.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), III Six books on Light and Shade
Context: Shadow is not the absence of light, merely the obstruction of the luminous rays by an opaque body. Shadow is of the nature of darkness. Light is of the nature of a luminous body; one conceals and the other reveals. They are always associated and inseparable from all objects. But shadow is a more powerful agent than light, for it can impede and entirely deprive bodies of their light, while light can never entirely expel shadow from a body, that is from an opaque body.