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The sun quotes
The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love.
— Sitting Bull
Be the sun in someone’s dark sky.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You do not beg the sun for mercy.-Maud’dib’s Travail from The Stilgar Commentary
— Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
As the sun lowered into the city’s skyline, casting an orange glow over the islands, Jana could feel people’s hopes rising.
— F.C. Malby, Take Me to the Castle
Because the sun helps you in the day, do not scoff at stars at night.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If there is nothing new under the sun, at least the sun itself is always new, always re-creating itself out of its own inexhaustible fire.
— Michael Sims, Apollo’s Fire: A Day on Earth in Nature and Imagination
You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you…
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal the hidden jewel to the sun at the most flattering angles.
— Charles Munch
Ball caps travel far and wide. They do far more than keep the sun out of your eyes or the cold off your head. Ball caps are a statement.
— George Vecsey
A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.
— Anaxagoras
The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it’s stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun islike a yellow hole. . .
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.
— Walt Disney Company
Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows will fall behind you.
— Maori proverb
Tell me the story..About how the sun loved the moon so much..That she died every night..Just to let him breathe…
— Hanako Ishii
And then I feel the sun itselfas it blazes over the hills, like a million flowers on fire –clearly I’m not needed, yet I feel myself turninginto something of inexplicable value.-from The Buddha’s Last Instruction
— Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1
Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.
— Rabindranath Tagore, Chitra – A Play in One Act
Not forever does the bulbul singIn balmy shades of bowers, Not forever lasts the springNor ever blossom the flowers.Not forever reigneth joy, Sets the sun on days of bliss, Friendships not forever last, They know not life, who know not this.
— Khushwant Singh, Train to Pakistan
A man’s capable of understanding anything – how the ether vibrates, and what’s going on in the sun – but how any other man can blow his nose differently from him, that he’s incapable of understanding.
— Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
Every morning the sun rises to fill your life with magnificent colors and joyful nights.
— Debasish Mridha
Let the sun shine on the darkness created by my Ignorance. One World One identity. peace, liberty, and justice for all.
— Mayur Ramgir
I watch the sky progress through its morning paces, the light turning from rose to saffron as the sun ascends, its rays like ribbons tangling in the tops of trees.
— Lauren Slater, Playing House: Notes of a Reluctant Mother
Dawn wore a pink dress and crept across the land like a timid girl. Her sister Morning followed, dressed in blue, the sun a dazzling locket on her breast.
— Robert F. Young
The fact had become as invisible to him as someone on Earth thinking about being held to a spinning celestial object by nothing more than mass, shielded from the fusion reaction of the sun by only distance and air.
— James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn
When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
— John Lennon
Always try to live in a wonderful world where the sun is always shining, flowers are always blooming, birds are always singing, and you are always busy with a joyful life.
— Debasish Mridha
As the sun sets, something in me rises! Do you think it could be my soul? I feel it’s a big probability!
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Even when the sun was shining she couldn’t see it. The whole house was closing in on her and she was suffocating.
— Crissi Langwell, The Road to Hope
The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the sun at one of the two foci.
— Johannes Kepler
I remember watching those balloons as a little boy, each fall, wondering if someday I, too, would be nothing but a balloon in the sky, soaring towards the sun until I begin to fall slowly back to earth and into the hands of a stranger.
— Kenny Porpora, The Autumn Balloon
She would search for him. In the land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon. But there was no way there.
— Edith Pattou, East
When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.
— Seán O’Casey, Three More Plays: The Silver Tassie, Purple Dust, Red Roses For Me
The darkest clouds are the best ennobling of the sun, because the sun is most wanted under the darkest clouds! The evil is condemned to glorify and to honour the good!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Amida’s unimpeded light is the sun of wisdom that destroys the mind of darkness.(Preface in Teaching, Practice, Faith, Enlightenment)
— Kentetsu Takamori, You Were Born for a Reason: The Real Purpose of Life
A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.
— Charles Spurgeon
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into sun.
— Pablo Picasso
I think laughter may be a form of courage…. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.
— Linda Ellerbee
A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
— John Burroughs
As the sun lives on when it sets in the warmth it has given to others, you too will live on in the hearts of those whose lives you have touched.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When the sun sleeps, the darkness awakens! When the shepherd disappears, the wolf appears on the horizon!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn’t going to get it all.
— Faith Hill
Every morning the sun rises with a golden glow to reveal the ineffable magnificence of life.
— Debasish Mridha
Out of sight above the house, the mirror moon reflected the sun of a day not yet dawned, shining the pale light of tomorrow on the yard and on the paper birches.
— Dean Koontz, Breathless
I understood the ominous sky because it was so much like you, and I was the sun always willing to burn for our love.
— Melody Lee
The financial markets are not to be trusted. They expect to be given free reign to make huge profits while the sun is shining, but hasten to the shelter of the state when the skies darken.
— Peter Stalker
Still more horrible was the color of the flames that licked the latticed cabin vents before shooting skyward, as though – might I say? – the sun itself had crashed to earth, spewing its heavenly fire in all directions.
— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Hell Screen
Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others’ faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
Why’s it so sunny?” she repeated.Zooey observed her rather narrowly. “I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, ” he said.
— J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
Take a discovery walk today to find what’s missing in your life. There’s peace in the whisper of the wind, hope in the sun smiling from behind clouds, strength in every step forward. You can do it!
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
— John Muir
Kidnap me and take me away. Throw me across the back of your bike and show me what it feels like to have the wind in your face and the sun on your skin, day in and day out. If it’s anything at all like this then it must be heaven on earth.
— C.M. Stunich, Losing Me, Finding You
Make hay while the sun shines.
— English proverb
Twilight is a court; when the sun sets we are put on trial in this dusky court! All things we have done throughout the day are interrogated by our conscience, the invisible judge of our minds!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
— William Faulkner, The Unvanquished
holding the eveningtremblingly close to mei weepinto the sun lettingthe burdenof hopelift off my chesti realizethis is what it meansto be free.
— Sanober Khan
Love, that moves the sun and the other stars
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso
Is the spring coming?” he said. “What is it like?”…”It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids.
— Yukio Mishima, Runaway Horses
Fearing the night won’t keep the sun from setting.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Let the sun shine in our Heart all other places is a extra gift.Jan Jansen
— Jan Jansen
Seems like the cold would never go away and winter would be like the bottom of my feet but then it is gone in one night and in its place comes the sun so large and laughable.
— Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
A sunrise is a wondrous marvel, but in reality the sun never rises. It is the earth that rotates to face the sun. Life too can be a wondrous marvel, but like the earth, we must turn our eyes toward brighter things.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
As the sun hides behind clouds, success hides behind trouble.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When i move through my pain, it clears the path for a new dawn, a new day. It is in these moments, i feel the sun rising on the horizon of hope, in my soul.
— Jaeda DeWalt
If the sun never set, we would have no perception of the vast depths of space, which become visible only at night when we are able to see what is obscured by the bright daylight
— William Keepin, Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation Between Women and Men
That night she dreamed about the King again. She stood in a riverside meadow between greenwood and castle. Overhead the sun shone gilt in a sky like powdered lapis and struck golden sparks from the King’s blood-red dragon banner.
— Suzannah Rowntree, Pendragon’s Heir
When the sun shines you cannot see the moon, ” he said. “But when the sun is gone ah, when the sun is gone.
— Agatha Christie
She had never known that ice could take on so many shades of blue: sharp lines of indigo like the deepest sea, aquamarine shadows, even the glint of blue-green where the sun struck just so.
— Malinda Lo, Huntress
You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you’re in a beautiful place and the sun is going down
— Thrity Umrigar, The Space Between Us
The sky and the sun are always there. It’s the clouds that come and go.
— Rachel Joyce
Sometimes, the sun sets earlier. Days don’t last forever, you know. But I’ll fight as hard as I can. I can promise you that.
— Marie Lu, Champion
I couldn’t see much, but it somehow seemed brighter across the wall, as if the sun gave more of it’s light to the west. Maybe the people there were more selfish, I thought. Because we needed that sunlight far more than they did.
— Jennifer A. Nielsen, A Night Divided
You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
— Ramakrishna
The Buddha-nature which is ours from the very beginning is like the sun which emerges from the clouds, or like a mirror which, when rubbed, regains its original purity and clarity. (217)
— Edward Conze, Buddhist Scriptures
Even in the midst of the storm the sun is still shining.
— Dayna Lovely
You know what’s truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they’re all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it’s shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place.
— Bruce Sterling
Solovey will take me to the ends of the earth if I ask it. I am going into the world, Alyosha. I will be no one’s bride, neither of man nor of God. I am going to Kiev and Sarai and Tsargrad, and I will look upon the sun on the sea.
— Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.
— N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain
As I watched the sun began its daily routine, casting golden hue and illuminating cities, I wondered, “what an exemplary way to start my daily routine?
— Val Uchendu
One day, all your worries will set like the sun does and deserved happiness will come gushing like waves at the beach do. All you need to make sure id that your trips to beach never end.
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Although we may encounter dark seasons, when we’re filled with joy we’ll have confident expectations that the sun will soon return and dark clouds will pass.
— Dana Arcuri, Harvest of Hope: Living Victoriously Through Adversity: A 50-Day Devotional
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
— Wilma Rudolph
The light from the sun breaks through space, bathing our planet as it encircles the sun with life-giving warmth and light. Without the sun, there could be no life on this planet; it would be forever barren, cold, and dark.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
He missed him like he would miss the sun if it fell out of the sky.
— Gary D. Schmidt, First Boy
Outside, the sun shines. Inside, there’s only darkness. The blackness is hard to describe, as it’s more than symptoms. It’s a nothing that becomes everything there is. And what one sees is only a fraction of the trauma inflicted.
— Justin Ordoñez, Sykosa
When the sun rises it casts a shadow on what does not shine as bright as it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Song for the Puberty Rite of a Girl Named Cowaka:A poor man takes the songs in his hand And drops them near the place where the sun sets. See, Cowaka, run to them and take them in your hand, And place them under the sunset.
— Frances Densmore, Papago Music
You are the beloved child of this universe, so live as if everything is yours. Every morning the sun is rising for you. The rays of light are kissing you, birds are singing for you, flowers are dancing for you, and everything belongs to you.
— Debasish Mridha
It was awful, he cried, awful, awful!Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.
— Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Spring is the time of the year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Now that your eyes are open, make the sun jealous with your burning passion to start the day. Make the sun jealous or stay in bed.
— Malak El Halabi
Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.
— William Shakespeare
Every language has its own word for the sun, but the sun us always the same.
— Marty Rubin
As the sun sinksIt casts that silver bridgeAcross the lake
— Richard L. Ratliff
The garden was full of sorrowSongbirds and unusual winds whistled a rhymeClouds caused to appear and cast down darknessFor this was the first day the sun didn’t shine
— John E. Wordslinger
I guess if you leave the milk of human kindness out in the sun too long, the sour cream of the crop will rise to the top.
— Leland Gregory, Stupid History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions Throughout the Ages
The love that moves the sun and the other stars.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
She drew gallantry from men as the sun drew water. Her pertness enchanted them. Young men went away from her with a feeling of bravado. Old men were enslaved by her silver curls. Something about her was forever female and made all men virile.
— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Just as smiles often follow tears, the sun rose full and bright on the morning..
— Georgina Grey, Franklin’s Folly
Every now and then I sit and watch the sun rise to remind myself how it’s done—peacefully, steadily, warmly, and in beautiful color.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Adolescence impelled her eyes to stay at an even keel, to deal with the ground before flickering to the heavens. Night became not dotted with fairy clouds of celestial brilliance, but simply the time when the sun was out of sight.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods
I’m exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, ‘Oh, I’m never really going to get it right. I’m never going to get it done. But that’s not the point here.’ The point is the journey.
— Melissa Etheridge
I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. … I like to take this day- any day-and go to town with it.
— James Dickey
He was one of those people who completely changes when they smile. Like the sun had come out.
— Caroline Green, Dark Ride
If the sun shone for itself, it would be blinded by its own light; if a river flowed for itself, it would be drowned by its own weight.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Be as bright as the sun then spread your light all over the world.
— Debasish Mridha
This is a beautiful morning; the sun is rising with a smiling face. Everything around me is alive and smiling. Everything is whispering in my ear to enjoy every moment and enjoy the morning. My heart is dancing with you, with morning light.
— Debasish Mridha
He took deep breaths. He wanted to sleep. At least in sleeping, he could find a kind of peace. At least in sleeping, he could dream about his dead friends and maybe, until the sun came up, feel like he wasn’t all alone.
— Alex London, Guardian
MARIEAs the day is long and the world is old, lots of people can stand on one spot, one after another.WOYZECKI saw him.MARIEYou can see all sorts of things if you’ve got two cyes and aren’t blind, and the sun is shining.
— Georg Büchner, Woyzeck
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
— Satchel Paige
Because zombies can’t go out into the sun, most of them tend to be afraid of anything that can go into the sun and live to tell the tale.
— M.C. Steve
Janie knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making.
— Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
— Pablo Picasso
Nothing was more powerful than the sun before it went down, nor more beautiful. She took a long deep breath. She could watch the sky for hours but then she knew that Mark really did deserve some sort of an answer.
— Jennifer Lynch
She dove, plunging fully beneath the surface and came up again in tears. Rivulets ran from her face, and the sun ignited them each, transforming them, even amid her sorrow, into gilded runnels set with a diamond shine.
— A.S. Peterson, Fiddler’s Green
Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.
— Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
I had a dream about you last night.. You thought you were a candy vampire, you were standing in the sun screaming ‘I’m melting.
— Nicole McKay, I Had a Dream About You
A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.
— Mildred W. Struven
You can switch off all the lights, but that won’t stop the sun from rising.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
She shook her head, and we parted, kissing, as the first beams from the sun burst forth behind us. When I returned to my bedroom, the scent of her hair remained on my pillow. For the first time in my life, at the age of twenty-five, I was in love.
— James Russell Lingerfelt, The Mason Jar
The beauty of a morning glory, is that of its patient wait for the sun to bloom in the morning!
— Mary Kate
Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars.
— Violeta Parra
One day, all your worries will set like the sun does and deserved happiness will come gushing like waves at the beach do. All you need to make sure is that your trips to beach never end.
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Then, whenever I feel the sun on my face, I will think of you, ” I told him. “You will always be with me, Bill. Because of all I have felt for you, and all I have learned from you.
— Cornelia Maude Spelman, Missing: A Memoir
his wife might, I verily believe, be the very happiest woman the sun shines on
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Happiness had never been like this before. Now it came like sun showers, the sun and the rain together. Happiness was happier than it had been – sharp, piercing, and snatched, like a breath while swimming in surf.
— Elizabeth Knox, Dreamhunter
The lord of light made the sun and moon and stars to light our day, and gave us fire to keep the night at bay.
— George R.R. Martin
One’s age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
— Thomas Arnold
When the sun shines wondrously in the morning, even the shadows in our mind start running away!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one.
— R. T. Wombat
We can taste what’s in our mouths, touch what’s within our reach, smell within hundreds of metres and hear within tens of miles. But it’s only through our vision that we are in communication with the sun and stars.
— Gavin Francis
The cold is waiting to ooze through the soles of your shoes. Maggot-damp, this city is festering: home to hollow faces of grey flesh. They stare from windows unclean, into the sun never reaches: dismal lives lived in dismal constriction.
— Emmanuelle de Maupassant, The Gentlemen’s Club
Barking at people earns their respect about as effectively as staring into the sun improves your vision.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
When hope turns dark, I will bring the sun to light it, I shall guide, protect thee, For I am the human spirit.Poem: God’s Dream, in ‘Chameleon Lights
— Ayushman Jamwal
Troubles always seemed more severe after the sun went down. Even irrational worries and fears could seem perfectly logical at midnight.
— Jeanne Stephens, Broken Dreams
I had gotten so used to the taste of rain that I forgot what the sun tasted like. Bittersweet.
— Ana Patrick
You are as prone to love, as the sun is to shine.
— Thomas Traherne, Centuries Of Meditations
The sea may catch fire, the planets may collide in space, the sun may quench off its heat, but what we understand is that our peace is like a river in our souls; it’s surface may wave about in turbulence, but it’s bottom is cool and gently calm!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
It is foolish for the moon to compete with the sun for the spotlight.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you live in the desert, view the sun not as your enemy, but as your friend. If you live in the wilderness, view nature not as your adversary, but as your companion.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Scientists say that somewhere in the universe, every event under the sun repeats itself an infinite number of times in every possible variation.
— Romina Russell, Zodiac
When the shadow is in front of you, all you see is the darkness and forget the sun is at your back.
— Brownell Landrum, A Chorus of Voices: DUET stories Volume III – Adult Version
When pain brings you down, don’t be silly, don’t close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.
— Alanis Morissette
Falling in love slowly is like awakening one morning to find that the sun has risen in the west.
— Kim Wright, City of Silence
He blinked at the sun and dreamt that perhaps he might snare it and spare it as it went down to its resting place amidst the distant hills.
— H.G. Wells, The World Set Free
Born of the sun they travelled a short while towards the sun And left the vivid air signed with their honour.
— Stephen Spender
Even the sun directs our gaze away from itself and to the life illumined by it.
— Eberhard Arnold, Salt and Light: Talks and Writings on the Sermon on the Mount
You can turn off the sun but I’m still gonna shine.
— Jason Mraz
When she stopped kissing him his hand went to her waist to pull her back. the sun beat down on us. The day quivered. The sky was as deep as the ocean. We breathed underwater.
— Karen Foxlee, The Anatomy of Wings
Think I’ll miss you forever, Like the stars miss the sun in the morning sky.
— Lana Del Rey
When I die, don’t come, I wouldn’t want a leafto turn away from the sun — it loves it there.There’s nothing so spiritual about being happybut you can’t miss a day of it, because it doesn’t last.
— Frank O’Hara
She saw that he knew what loneliness was, that he understood why it might be raining inside a person even when the sun shone, that sadness needed no immediate cause.
— Jan-Philipp Sendker, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
I love thee I love but thee With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold And the stars grow old.
— William Shakespeare
The earth is supported by the power of truth it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow indeed all things rest upon truth.
— Chanakya
Banks watched the sun creep over the forest of oak trees and a crack of light broke through the night and grew longer and wider and ate the black like a fungus until the darkness was gone and there was light and it was day.
— Matthew McBride, A Swollen Red Sun
His was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never shines.
— Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Had there been no sun, life would have found some other means of illuminating the world. It is odd that we give the sun so much importance.
— Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word
If the sun refuses to rise we will make it rise
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
But there were certain early days in Casterbridge- days of firmamental exhaustion which followed angry south-westerly tempests-when, if the sun shone, the air was like velvet.
— Thomas Hardy
Why doesn’t she want me? The sun is rising now, but it is 93, 000, 000 miles away and I can’t get warm… She won’t be cold. She has the sun inside her.
— Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places: Stories
The sun rises, the sun falls, the wind blows and the birds sing no matter where you are. These are experiences that unite us all… something we can all enjoy together
— Melanie Charlene
If death is no longer a fear, we’re really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for love.
— John Piper, Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent
I don’t ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.
— Pete Hamill
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
— Victor Hugo
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race.
— Victor Hugo
When darkness falls upon you, turn your face to the sun and your shadows will fall behind you.
— Daniel Wicomb
We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.
— Erma Bombeck
People may say many negative things about love, but it will remain the most beautiful sensation and strongest emotion ever felt. Love opens sky, makes the sun shine at midnight, stops time, and cure all wounds. Love is paradise and love is God.
— Elie Jerome, I Dare You to Try It
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
— Mark Twain
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
— Unknown
At the crossroad in my life, I didn’t know which way to go. I just mindlessly choose a random direction… then, after regretting my decision I tried to retrace my steps. However, without even realizing it the sun had already set.
— Nobuyuki Fukumoto
Youth to youth, like the dragon-flies chasing each other, and love like the sun warming them through and through.
— John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga
Little faults become great, and even monstrous in our eyes, in proportion as the pure light of God increases in us; just as the sun in rising, reveals the true dimensions of objects which were dimly and confusedly discovered during the night.
— François Fénelon, Spiritual Progress
The love that moves the sun and all the other starsThe kind of love that can burn the world or raise it up in glory
— Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
And maybe the only reason we have to fall back down to grow again is the same cause for the sun to rise and sink: our stars need time to shine at night to heal, to heal.
— Anonymous
The day you forgive your past and close your eyes. You will hear a river flowing inside you again. You will hear that waves of the ocean hitting the seashores of your soul once again. And again the sun will shine, lighting up your darkest nights.
— Akshay Vasu
When clouds will become heavier than the land in us led our entire life by the steps of our Destiny, we will understand that not their moments’ rain has darkened the sun of our life, but the failure to be ourselves.
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
Y por que el sol es tan mal amigodel caminante en el desierto?Y por que el sol es tan simpaticoen el jardin del hospital?And why is the sun such a bad companionto the traveler in the desert?And why is the sun so congenial in the hospital garden?
— Pablo Neruda
A man hath no better thing under the sun than to eat and to drink and to be merry.
— Bible
There is nothing new under the sun but that of the Son. Man’s rebellion against God has always been because he would rather fall in pride than rise in humility.
— Criss Jami, Healology
….”the sound of a barrel organ rising from the deepest golden vein of the day; two or three bars of a chorus, played on a distant piano over and over again, melting in the sun on the white pavement, lost in the fire of high noon.
— Bruno Schulz, The Street of Crocodiles
Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Let the sun go down on you like King Harold at the battle of Hastings — fighting gloriously. Maybe a loser but what a loser! Greater in defeat than the conqueror. Certainly not a coward that rusted out lurking in his tent.
— Zora Neale Hurston, A Life in Letters
Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
— Satchel Paige
You have the face of a man who gently caresses field flowers and dandelions. And a smile that is like a dagger, cutting the sun in halves.
— Malak El Halabi
Life is too short to not have fun we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.
— Coolio
As the sun has endless lights, endless power, endless warmth, so do you also have endless love with endless power and, even better, your power of love and capacity to give grows by giving.
— Debasish Mridha
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.
— Laurence Binyon
Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
She’d fallen into a deep silence once, when the sun appeared, and it was then he’d wondered most what she was thinking.
— Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky
when you have no spirit to seize the day, find it behind the music, between the flowing leaves, beneath the sun rays, and just within yourself. Talk to yourself, be the best friend for yourself, and do not hesitate to ask God help
— Maria Magdalena
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
— Joseph Addison
The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I’m taking more chances; I’m bold and proud.
— Paula Cole
Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.
— Samuel Daniel
Every morning, whether I’ve slept or not, whether I’ve made it through the day without crying or given in and sobbed in the shower, where no one can hear me― the sun comes up, and I make my choice.
— Robin York, Deeper
I spend most of my time at the ranch with my family, and enjoy life – watch the sun come up, watch it go down, thank God for another day, and just be happy.
— Marcus Luttrell
I could feel his hand on my waist, his arms around me, feel the rise and fall of his chest next to mine as I held my breath, and wished the sun would drop out of the sky.
— Kenneth Logan, True Letters from a Fictional Life
I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.
— David Eddings
Let’s go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.
— Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools
Be like the sun who fell in love with the moon and shared all his light.
— Kamand Kojouri
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides
— David Viscott, The Language of Feelings
If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.
— Romain Rolland
Then, like a shimmering disk too rich and clear to be described, the sun slipped over the horizon and lined everything with gold. It was like seeing the world being born, and we were the sole witnesses.
— Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
— George Eliot
Neither father nor son moved, but stayed face to face for hours and hours, neither looking away nor surrendering, until the sun finished its daily pilgrimage, for no day is so long that it is not ended by nightfall.
— Rabih Alameddine, The Hakawati
Even if you cover the whole world with darkness, you can never stop the sun from rising.
— Debasish Mridha
I love the way he smelled whenever his head dipped close to hear what I was saying—like the sun striking th cheek of a tomato, or soap drying in the hood of a car. I loved the way his hand felt on my spine. I loved.
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
Sometimes living in the shadows is the only thing you can do to help a friend. Dont worry when the sun shines people will see you were always there to guide them through the pain.
— Royal Cromwell
Till the sun grows cold And the stars are old And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.
— Bayard Taylor
When the sun touched the earth, it spread out along the horizon like a giant yolk oozing free of its skin.
— Christopher Paolini, Inheritance
He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
When the sun goes out, it will be your love that keeps we warm.
— Anthony T. Hincks
I hope you know I love you, not just because I tell you so at every opportunity, but because I show you so as often as the sun sets.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
When he is cheerful–when the sun shines into his mind–then I venture to peep in, just as far as the light reaches, but no further. It is holy ground where the shadow falls!
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
If no one loved, the sun would go out.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Every morning the sun rises to wake you up with a beautiful message of peace.
— Debasish Mridha
Did you know I dream about your hair? I use to say it was the color of the sun at sunset, but I’m wrong. It’s brighter than the sun, just as you are.
— Julia Quinn
Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun to have lived light in the spring to have loved to have thought to have done?
— Matthew Arnold
I want to believe that I’m not wrong. I want to believe that life isn’t full of darkness. Even if storms come to pass, the sun will shine again. No matter how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.
— Natsuki Takaya
When your sky is covered with the clouds of sadness, smile like the sun and paint your own rainbow.
— Debasish Mridha
…I learned that God was an equal opportunity employer—that it was possible to experience the divine anywhere you were, anywhere you could see the sun and moon rise or set, or burn through the fog.
— Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
It was a chilly morning after the night’s rain, and the sun hung in the sky like a pale coin lost by someone high up in the clouds.
— Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
When love is new, it’s brighter than the sun and 30 times as great as the force of the atomic bomb dropped and felt from your heart, but to some people it will slowly fade but to me it will always be the same.
— Auliq Ice
The west is broken into bars Of orange gold and gray Gone is the sun come are the stars And night infolds the day.
— George Macdonald
There is one glory of the sun and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
— Bible
And like tea dissolving in hot water, the sun dissolved in the sky… creating a velvet horizon, announcing for the stars’ night dance with the moon, the awaited joy for the wounded souls. — From Bali – The Rebirth
— Abeer Allan
Look at the sun and think your future as bright as it is. Look at the moon and perceive how cool you can be in the darkest of night. Be positive as the sun and bright as the moon when the darkness of the world requires you to shine forth.
— Ricky Saikia
It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge of the earth and beyond the sun and through the vast silent vacuum where there were no burdens and where everything weighed exactly nothing.
— Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
I was a flower that bloomed and sparked way too fast. He took me in ’cause I was pretty in all kinds of colors but way too soon I stood on his table sad and dried up. I forgot to nourish myself and the sun never shone from my sky.
— Charlotte Eriksson
I’m a huge sun baby. As soon as the sun comes out, my smile gets bigger, so I’m constantly smiling in L.A. It’s a fantastic place to be.
— Ricky Whittle
My roses are my jewels, the sun and moon my clocks, fruit and water my food and drink.
— Hester Lucy Stanhope
You might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn a hole in the Earth. Another part of me hopes people will grow up and evolve and get smarter. That’s the paradox of Marilyn Manson.
— Marilyn Manson
There’s just no place like Scotland when the sun is out. I just love coming home.
— Ashley Jensen
The child often sees only what he already knows. He projects the whole of his verbal thought into things. He sees mountains as built by men, rivers as dug out with spades, the sun and moon as following us on our walks.
— Jean Piaget
Be the celebrators, celebrate! Already there is too much—the flowers have bloomed, the birds are singing, the sun is there in the sky—celebrate it! You are breathing and you are alive and you have consciousness, celebrate it!
— Osho, Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within
The psychological effects of the sun are strange: it had not yet appeared over the horizon and we already felt comforted, just imagining the heat it would bring.
— Ernesto Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
The journey of the sun and moon is predictable, but yours is your ultimate art.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
I believe that life is given us so that we may grow in love and I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower.
— Helen Keller
Only mountains can feel the frozen warmth of the sun through snow’s gentle caress on their peaks
— Munia Khan
People believe a little too easily that the function of the sun is to help the cabbages along.
— Gustave Flaubert
And that afternoon, as the sun slanted low through the changing autumn leaves, I remembered to savor the moment, soak in the beauty, breathe deeply and feel the immensity of God.
— Cindee Snider Re, Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness
If the sun isn’t shining where you are, be the sunshine where you are.
— Clyde Lee Dennis
Said the man to the sun, “How I wish you could shine your light on every day of my life!”Said the sun to the man, “But only with the rain and the night could you recognize my light.”—Domaccan poem, translated by Chevalle
— Marie Lu, The Midnight Star
Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?And if you lie to a liar, is the sun somehow negated or reversed?
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, and Raven
The Sun was smiling hundred years ago and the sun is laughing today.
— Santosh Kalwar
Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered…sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks…
— Ray Bradbury
No matter how low the sun sets, the time is coming when it will surely rise.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
By just living one’s life, sadness accumulates here and there, be it in the blankets hung out in the sun to dry, the toothbrushes in the bathroom, and the phone history logs.
— Makoto Shinkai
The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up. That’s when they can hear us true.
— Laurie Halse Anderson, Chains
In the history of the earth, the sun remains still.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You don’t have to pay the sun to rise, the moon to shine, and the stars to glow.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean.
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
You don’t blast a heart open, ” she said. “You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.
— Melody Beattie, The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Life When It All Seems Too Hard to Take
War is food and drink and disease and patience and anger and hate and cold and stealth and terror as well as sweet silver and bitter iron and the glitter of arms in the sun or under the moon.
— Miles Cameron, The Dread Wyrm
Eraritjaritjaka albutjikaNkinjaba iturala albutjika …His heart is filled with longing to turn for homeIn the heat of the sun to return home …’Ulamba chant, Aboriginal Central Australia
— Stuart Rintoul, The Wailing: A National Black Oral History
It never ceases to amaze me that every second of every day, more than 6, 000 billion neutrinos coming from nuclear reactions inside the sun whiz through my body, almost all of which will travel right through the earth without interruption.
— Lawrence M. Krauss
she loves to feel the sun on her skin the winter in her eyelashes and to hear his laughter all day long.
— Gwen Calvo
It was dark, so I couldn’t make out much of her face, but she had brilliant red hair, like honey and roses and the sun altogether.
— Kiera Cass, The Selection Stories: The Prince & The Guard
Even in the cloudy sky, the sun never forgets to rise.
— Debasish Mridha
Life is wonderful. It’s a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn’t really anything else.
— Michael Crichton, The Lost World
The moon only dares compete with the stars when the sun is in its corner.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A glory gilds the sacred page Majestic like the sun It gives a light to every age It gives but borrows none.
— William Cowper
You can’t avoid the inevitability of death. It comes at you one way or another, and takes us all to the same place in the end. To apologize for it is to apologize for the sun shining or the rain falling. It is what it is.
— Catherine Doyle
Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.
— Anna Lee
She was my mother and she would not leave me. This I had simply accepted and expected. I had no more thanked her for it than i did the sun for shining on me.
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Why do people assume? If I hate you, I’ll tell you. In this case, it’s not hate. It’s hurt. I’ll lick my wounds, which only oozed because I gave a damn, and be over it before the sun rises.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.
— John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat
What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion…if no one loved, the sun would go out.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish.
— Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
I love you more than the sun and the stars that i taught how to shine… You are mine, and you shine for me too I love you yesterday and today And tomorrow, I’ll say it again….. I love you more……
— Matthew West
We wait for the rains to cease, the clouds to part, and the sun to shine before saying life is good. Ironically, it is because we endure the storms that life seems so wonderfully bright at their passing.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.
— Ram Charan
My soul’s a burden to me, I’ve had enough of it. I’m eager to be in that country, where the sun kills every question. I don’t belong here.
— Albert Camus
Life is a continuum; neither black nor white, but a series of shades from light to dark. When the shadow is in front of you, all you see is the darkness and forget the sun is at your back.
— Brownell Landrum, A Chorus of Voices: DUET stories Volume III – Adult Version
The real character of leaders does not show in fair weathers. When the sun of life begins to go hot, you will see for yourself some leaders are already melting off!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders’ Ladder
For the sun to shine, you gotta have some rain. You need the damn rain.
— Khali Raymond
PRAYER to the sun above the clouds.Sun that givest all things birth, shine on everything on earth!If that’s too much to demand, shine at least on this our land.If even that’s too much for thee, shine at any rate on me.
— Piet Hein
When a woman’s face is wrinkledAnd her hairs are sprinkled, With gray, Lackaday!Aside she’s cast, No one respect will pay;Remember, Lasses, remember.And while the sun shines make hay:You must not expect in December, The flowers you gathered in May.
— Ann Rinaldi, Or Give Me Death: A Novel of Patrick Henry’s Family
Love isn’t a choice. I can’t control how I feel about him any more than I can control the sun in the sky. But what I can do is control what I do with those feelings.
— Karina Halle, The Lie
I love thee, I love but theeWith a love that shall not dieTill the sun grows cold, And the stars grow old
— Bayard Taylor
Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here.
— Ruth Brown
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it but because I see everything by it.
— C. S. Lewis
Keep your faith in all things hidden. We believe in the stars when we cannot see them. We believe in the sun when it no longer shines for us. And we believe in the universal truth even when it is not shown clearly.
— Hilary Thompson, Lexan’s Pledge
If you had a really good – battery, it wouldn’t matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.
— Nathan Myhrvold
I am the sun who will bring delight when you are in-front of me. I am the moon who will show shyness when you are away from me.
— Santosh Kalwar
It is the artist’s business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
— Romain Rolland
Of so much moon were your hips to me, of all the sun your deep mouth and its delight, of so much burning light like honey in the shade
— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
With Dante gone, time seemed to stand still around me; the mornings just as cloudy and dark as the evenings, as if the sun had never decided to rise. There was no wind, like the world was holding its breath along with me, waiting for him to return.
— Yvonne Woon, Life Eternal
I miss the thrill of your self-destructive heart that melts in the sun like chocolate, bittersweet and incandescent.
— Maria Elena, Eternal Youth
But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.
— Ernest Hemingway
I stepped out and the sun was shining. And the birds were chirping. It was the nicest day we’d had in ages. A couple of bunnies scampering about. It could have been the start of a Disney flick.
— Donna Augustine, Karma
being is one day and a million nights. the blood on the glass, blood lust with the sun holding. the universe beats for the lost and found. with you.
— Gwen Calvo, Cocaine Masks: Cocaine Masks
While the sun is shining on you, solve all your problems or else you shall be lost forever in the darkness!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
People are like stained – glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Don’t be afraid of being alone; remember, when the sun rises, it rises with nobody at its side.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
God is never tired of bringing the sun out every morning, taking it in the evenings and bringing out the moon.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
We can, each of us, be likened to houses made entirely of colorfully stained-glass. They sparkle and shine when the sun is on them, however when the darkness sets in, their greatest beauty is revealed only by a Light from within.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
— Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed
Like the sun and the moon loved each other, Like the sky loved the stars, The sun and the moon couldn’t shine together and the sky couldn’t have stars forever.
— J. Sarraf
There are boneswaiting for names in the graveyards.Even the sun above us is dying, onelanded repetition of light at a time.
— Cecilia Llompart, The Wingless
Every day the sun is rising for you.Every morning birds are singing for you. In the garden, flowers are blooming for you. Every river is flowing with life just for you.
— Debasish Mridha
the lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with a red upon it that the sun had never given, and would never take away.
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.
— C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
To fill our lives with joy, the morning sun touches our hearts with the warmth of her kindness and the light of her love. Let us be like the sun touch someone’s life with kindness every morning.
— Debasish Mridha
Little sister!” Apollo called. If his teeth were any whiter he could’ve blinded us without the sun car. “What’s up? You never call. You never write. I was getting wor
— Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse
unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don’t do it
— Charles Bukowski
I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower – the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.
— Helen Keller
She is like the white skies, the shine, the sun and its rhyme.While he is the darkness that blinds, the moon, the wolf in mysterious confines.
— akhil shah
You shine like the sun and you move like water. Your eyes are the perfect mix of gray and brown, like fog in the woods, and you smell like lilacs in the summer. I think if you laughed, it would sound like music.
— M. Leighton, For the Love of a Vampire
My dad would call me his Cuban princess because I had really dark olive skin because I was always in the sun; but I don’t really go in the sun anymore, so that is why I am so white.
— Bella Thorne
Asking a parent not to be a parent is like asking the sun not to be hot or snow not to be cold.
— Lesa Howard
Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place.
— Mahalia Jackson
Her lips against his, the sun soaking into their skin, and the sweet, fragrant breezes that wafted through this isolated picnic area was nothing short of perfection.
— Katherine McIntyre, Captured Memories
I want to hear the wind in the trees. Feel the sun warm my back. I want to see birds fly in a sky with no boundaries.
— Lea Doué, The Firethorn Crown
The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work stretch out in the sun and scratch himself.
— H. L. Mencken
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
— Khalil Gibran
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Amé, fuí amado, el sol acarició mi faz.¡Vida, nada me debes! ¡Vida, estamos en paz!I loved, I was loved, the sun stroked my face.Life, you owe me nothing! Life, we are at peace!
— Amado Nervo
Because I took the sun for granted it shone on me.
— Marty Rubin
Water shines under the sun. But the sun dries it. (Eau brille sous soleil – Qui pourtant l’assèche.)
— Charles de Leusse
Whereever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.
— Shunryu Suzuki
And it is that which draws me to you, too, for you are the tropics, you have the sun in you, and the softness and the clarity…
— Anaïs Nin, The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin’s Continuous Novel
Oh, my God, this amazing cool breeze is coming through my window and the sun is shining. I’m happy.
— Liv Tyler
There’s darkness everywhere. You just can’t see it because the sun is such an attention-whore.
— Jason Gann
Smile like the sun and radiate your light and make this world bright.
— Debasish Mridha
If you want a place in the sun you’ve got to put up with a few blisters.
— Abigail Van Buren
There are no words in that fleeting moment between hope and the knowledge. There is no way to express how a heart can burst and break at the same time, how the sun can cut through the darkness but will case shadows everywhere.
— Marieke Nijkamp
Those who have FAITH believe that the Sun will Rise. They don’t wake up in the morning and look out to see if the sun has failed them.
— RVM
Every morning tell the sun that you are magical, helpful, and beautiful like the sun.
— Debasish Mridha
She kept talking and she kept talking. I thought she would never stop. Standing there, I felt the sun pour through the windows, setting and rising on my back. The sunroom had become a sundial measuring the geological age of my psychological toture.
— Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts
Her mouth— ah, that lush, sweet mouth— was a garden, and I was on my back, face tipped in adoration to the sun for giving me such brilliance, delightful aromas, and the indescribable lightness of being with her.
— Julia Kent, Random Acts of Hope
Aim at the sun and you may not reach it but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
— J. Hawes
May the sun come, it’s a new day; In the pure land of fantasy; That our darkness enlightened
— Miguel Torga
English I remember I remember The house where I was born The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn He never came a wink too soon Nor brought too long a day But now I often wish the night Had borne my breath away!
— Thomas Hood
You can curse the sun a thousand times, but cannot keep it from shining, even for a day.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
For her, every day was the same, and when each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.
— Chief Joseph
If the sun comes up, I have a chance.
— Venus Williams
Water belongs to us all. Nature did not make the sun one person’s property, nor air, nor water, cool and clear.
— Michael Simpson, The Metamorphoses of Ovid
Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.
— C.S. Lewis
When he lifted his head, the sun seemed impossibly close. Science-fictionally close.
— Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
Write before the sun comes up.
— A.D. Posey
As sure as the driven rain, the sun will shine again!
— Mark Hewer
Just because everyone agrees that something is true doesn’t make it so; everyone was in accord for thousands of years, saying the world was flat, the sun revolved around the earth, but everyone was wrong.
— Aaron Dennis
can you see how amazing the sun in Winter, like a miracle”, i said. He looked at me and said “The sun is like miracle just in Winter and you are miracle in my life”.
— Sam
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
— John Morley
Around, around the sun we go:The moon goes round the earth.We do not die of death:We die of vertigo.
— Archibald MacLeish, Collected Poems, 1917-1982
The sun will set and the sun will rise, and it will shine upon us tomorrow in our grief and our gratitude, and we will continue to live with purpose, memory, passion, and love.
— Brent Schlender, Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
This is the world. Half of it is lit by the sun and the other half remains in darkness. It is the same with life. There is good and bad and it’s our duty to remain in the light, be good.
— Anita Nair
You seem to forget that the sun must set. You knew perfectly well that I would not be with you long enough. Still, you weep and cry and ask God ‘Why’ as if it were some kind of surprise. Why? Because love changes everything. Love’s the surprise.
— Kate McGahan, Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge
Anyone can carry his burden however hard until nightfall. Anyone can do his work however hard for one day. Anyone can live sweetly patiently lovingly purely till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
[They] pervert the course of nature [by saying] the sun does not move and that it is the earth that revolves and that it turns.[John Calvin illustrating his opposition to heliocentrism in a sermon due to the Bible’s support of geocentrism]
— John Calvin
They began their climb, already weary, and the sun tried to steal whatever strength they had left. It was another god, a forgotten god, who gave a daily reminder, and was forgotten again each night.
— Dean F. Wilson, Worldwaker
If you want to see the sun shine you have to weather the storm.
— Frank Lane
But the sun will rise the day after tomorrowA millennium without us silences our last echoTo tiny fragments even our plastics are reducedIn Eden Reincarnate all life but ours is renewed
— A.A. Patawaran
Cherish every second you have. Hold the ones you love close to you. Sing, even when you don’t know the words to the song. Smile when the sun shines on your face. Dance in the rain.
— Kormal Kant
I am tired of having handsshe saidI want wings —But what will you do without your handsto be human?I am tired of humanshe saidI want to live on the sun —
— Louise Glück, Averno
Yes, the depth of truth unfolding like a rose bud in the morning hours to show its beauty when the sun does warm the pedals releasing the scent of love is something to be noticed from one heart made new again from darkness to light
— John M Sheehan
One day the sun will shine brighter than ever, and the stars will twinkle and shine more than ever, One day the pain will feel like it was there never, That’s when I will sing again, even if just in the shower, but louder and happier than ever.
— Mehak Bhalla
As he watches the sun rise, what grieves him is that he failed her. He thinks of the terror she felt. They tell him it was quick, as if that will somehow confine the horror.
— Nancy Horan, Loving Frank
Tell me the story about how the sun loved the moon so much that he died every night to let her breathe.
— Anonymous
After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul’s indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.
— William R. Alger
As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world. ~Terri Guillemets
— Terri Guillemets
We are all somewhat mercurial for temperament, and it is much easier to believe that all is well when the sun is shining, and yet, is not the sun always shining just behind the clouds that never last?
— Grace May North, Rilla of the Lighthouse
Dance when the sun comes up.
— A.D. Posey
In our moments in the sun beware of casting dark shadows.
— Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence
If the sun rolled back like an eye, it would see the mind of God.
— Cecilia Llompart, The Wingless
The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Life. This morning the sun made me adore it. It had, behind the dripping pine trees, the oriental brightness, orange and crimson, of a living being, a rose and an apple, in the physical and ideal fusion of a true and daily paradise.
— Juan Ramón Jiménez, Time and Space: A Poetic Autobiography
With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea who live too close to each other and too close thereby to all that is monstrous under the sun and moon.
— William Golding
I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.(6/20/1919)
— Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
When the sun shines, there seems to be much more dust in the air.Dirt can only be seen and properly removed by flooding it with white light
— Erik Tanghe
Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.
— Ryū Murakami, Coin Locker Babies
The way you dress is how you greet the sun and other stars.
— Kamand Kojouri
Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.
— Bible
I love France. It’s got the sun down at the bottom, the Alps for skiing, and all that wine and food.
— Paul Hollywood
Every time you shudder from the cold or wrap yourself more tightly in your furs, it reminds me that somewhere, the sun shines more brightly than it does here. You carry it in your skin.
— Melissa Bashardoust, Girls Made of Snow and Glass
We awoke to a fabulation of ice, the sun shining like a weapon, light rocketing off every surface except the surfaces of the Army’s clean streets and walks.
— Stephanie Vaughn, Sweet Talk
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
— John Muir, The Mountains of California
The little space within the heart is as great as the vast universe. The heavens and the earth are there, and the sun and the moon and the stars. Fire and lightening and winds are there, and all that now is and all that is not.
— Prabhavananda, The Upanishads: Breath from the Eternal
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I find peace where the sun kissed leaves dance in the melody of the cool breeze that floats through the air.
— Saim Cheeda
Whatever the clouds plan to do I always trust in the sun which never fails to come out
— Munia Khan
Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
— John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life
If only, if only, the moon speaks no reply;Reflecting the sun and all that’s gone by.Be strong my weary wolf, turn around boldly.Fly high, my baby bird, My angel, my only
— Louis Sachar, Holes
Can you imagine what will happen if just for one day the sun forgot to rise?
— Debasish Mridha
If the most High grant thee to live, thou shall see after the third trumpet that the sun shall suddenly shine again in the night, and the moon thrice in the day:
— Compton Gage
A society must create lots of sunshine for its miners as they need the sun most! And ‘to be remembered, to be respected’ is a good sunshine; ‘safety in the mine’ is a good sunshine!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
And, finally, I run because there’s no better way to see the sun rise and set.
— Amby Burfoot, The Runner’s Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart
The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that upon which all growth depends, from which all power proceeds.
— William Harvey, An Anatomical Disquisition on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
Losing someone is like when the sun comes through a window, moving across the room with each hour, until night falls and all you can do is try to remember the soothing shapes it made.
— Stewart Lewis, You Have Seven Messages
No one will retrieve my lost heartamidst so many roots, in the bitter freshnessof the sun multiplied by the fury of the water, there the shadow lives that does not travel with me.
— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
Rain clouds and stormy moods take time to blow away, but sooner or later the sun always comes out.
— Shirley Parenteau, Ship of Dolls
Man I’m hot, ” I exclaimed, fanning myself. The combination of climbing out of the cave and the sun meant that I was perspiring like crazy. “Why thank you, ” retorted Blaine, smirking. “I’m pleased that my presence causes that kind of reaction.
— Adele Rose, Shattered
When the boat is waiting for you, when the rows are waiting for you, when the calm sea is waiting for you, when the sun is waiting for you, when everything is ready to help you to move forward, be there or those who wait will go away!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
To shift a few grains of sand is no more a sign of great strength than to see the sun a sign of great sight. There is no glory in dominating the weak.
— Peter V. Brett, The Desert Spear
The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels.
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
As soon as Todd drove off the motorway it vanished from the mirror, and so did the sun across the moor.
— Ramsey Campbell, Holes for Faces
I knew why earlier generations once believed that the sun circled the earth. Because, in our limited imaginations, that is how we lived our lives. -Mrs. Tuesday’s Departure
— Suzanne Anderson
I hate when the sun is high and there are no shadows. If I could do super high-budget movies, I would only shoot when the sun starts to get low – but you can’t just shoot for four hours every day.
— Susanne Bier
…what does the future look like?…’A deep blue, fading into golds and reds-like fire on a horizon. Afterlight. It’s a sky that wants you to guess if the sun is about to rise or set.
— Alexandra Bracken, In The Afterlight
Solar power is the last energy resource that isn’t owned yet – nobody taxes the sun yet.
— Bonnie Raitt
Our true nature is bliss. That bliss is like the sun that always shines. It remains ever present, but the events in life and clouds of worry and even emotions like happiness may obscure it like storm clouds obscure the sun.
— Debra Moffitt, Garden of Bliss: Cultivating the Inner Landscape for Self-Discovery
In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.
— Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle
Whenever I saw a sunset, I would quietly make my secret wish right before the sun tucked under the western horizon and disappeared. It would seem as if the sun had taken my wish with it. I’d make it right before the last speck of light vanished.
— Michael Jackson, Moonwalk
Be the sun breaking through the clouds.
— A.D. Posey
We both just stood there. I let the breeze brush against my skin, the sun release the tension in my muscles. It was as close as I had felt to God in a long time. “It’s like we’re praying, ” Celeste whispered. “Only we’re not saying anything.
— Nancy N. Rue, False Friends and True Strangers
my gardenin the sun and in the rainand in the day and in the nightpain is a flowerpain is flowersblooming all the time.
— Charles Bukowski
It is as if Quincey has replaced the sun in my universe and it is around him that I spin.
— Kate Cary
Darkness is happening, ” said the leather woman, very quietly. “Night is happening. All the nightmares that have come out when the sun goes down, since the cave times, when we huddled together in fear for safety and for warmth, are happening. Now.
— Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
Poetry is an old wise serpent which only occasionally comes out to catch the sun (and scare people).
— Leila Samarrai
With red clay between my toes, and the sun setting over my head, the ghost of my mother blows in, riding on a honeysuckle breeze, oh lord, riding on a honeysuckle breeze.
— Brenda Sutton Rose
The Egyptians saw the sun and called him Ra, the Sun God. He rode across the sky in his chariot until it was time to sleep. Copernicus and Galileo proved otherwise and poor Ra lost his divinity.
— Ashwin Sanghi
You believe the sun will reappear after a stormy day, so why is it so hard to believe, you’ll experience happiness after every heartache.
— Nikki Rowe
You can order the sun to come up if you time it right. I’m not driving this bus. Making it do what I want would be like talking someone out of a seizure.
— James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn
Blame yourself if you have no branches or leaves don’t accuse the sun of partiality.
— Chinese proverb
You can’t kick me down, I’m already on the ground. No, you can’t, but you couldn’t catch me anyhow.Blue skies, but the sun isn’t comming out, no. Today, it is like I’m under a heavy cloud.”Avril Lavigne (Runaway)
— Avril Lavigne
Shine like the sun in a gloomy sky.
— Debasish Mridha
A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.
— Bill Cosby
My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it’s because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.
— Barbara Kingsolver
His Majesty’s dominions on which the sun never sets.
— Christopher North
Each day the sun kisses the earth goodnight yet now two sunsets are alike
— Brent M. Jones
In darkness, remember that the sun never forgets to rise with her morning smile.
— Debasish Mridha
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The beauty of a morning glory, is that of its patient wait for the sun to rise in the morning!
— Mary Kate
We are spirits deceived by the sky to create light and trade our souls to the sun but fail to become galaxies when it’s dark
— Goitsemang Mvula
This far north the sun was still up, although very low, riding through the mountains as if looking for something it lost on the ground.
— Craig Childs, The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild
I write to create a sky where the moon can touch the sun and not get burned.
— Jenim Dibie
God command the sun to rise every new morning.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
From the windows, through the fur of snow, the landscape became more melancholy when the sun successfully brightened the quiet trees, unable to speak without their leaves.
— Toni Morrison
Grandma, everyone out here is bleaching their anuses. What do I do?”Her advice? “Baby, go outside in the sun and squirt a little lemon juice on it.
— Mollie Gross, Confessions of a Military Wife
the human body is a miniature version of the universe – the eyes and ears are the sun and moon, breath is air, blood is rain.
— Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
I share my secrets with the moon, She talks about her love story with the sun & I share all my dreams about you.
— Nikki Rowe
These days the sun never cared to shine when people like me needed it most.
— JTVI
A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.
— C. S. Lewis
I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.
— Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat
You know how the Eclipse of the sun shows it? Christ’s strength eclipses your powerlessness in God’s likeness, and there is total darkness on your weakness.
— Israelmore Ayivor
My Dad is everywhere and he is nowhere. My world tilts on a different axis, orbiting the sun of my own family- but still, I feel his warmth.
— Elisabeth Egan
He (Daedalus) would follow that bearing, the sun on his shoulders and the past slipping away.
— Robert William Case, Daedalus Rising – The True Story of Icarus
Around around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.
— Archibald MacLeish
I am awake, I see the sun. I am going to give my gratitude to the sun and to everything and everyone because I am still alive. One more day to be myself.
— Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
I can sense your love, why leave me in darkness?Beguile me for your amusement, stealing my soul without kisses. You are the sun and I, the moon. Your beauty is reflected in my eyes.When we are apart, I am extinguishedin the blackness of these skies.
— Kamand Kojouri
Wow, ” Thalia muttered. “Apollo is hot.” “He’s the sun god, ” I said.”That’s not what I meant.
— Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse
My tears of joyhear the raindrops crying, as the rain never wants to pourdown on my cloudy dayswhen I makeour love-dreamsfor the sun to dreamonly for you….(From the poem “Only For You” By Munia Khan)
— Munia Khan
Maybe the moon just lost herself gazing too long at the brilliance of the sun and that’s how she got her glow. And maybe we’re made of the same mysterious sort of magic that makes us magnify and mirror whatever we look at the most.
— Cristen Rodgers
Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I’d like to express my thanks – I’ve got the sun in the mornin’ and the moon at night.
— Irving Berlin
The smell of her hair lingered just out of reach of his memory and left him with a nervous hum resonating throughout his body like a child forced to sit in church while the sun was shining outside on a perfectly good summer’s day.
— Erik Tomblin, The Space Between
With every rising of the sun think of your life as just begun.
— Anonymous
But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
— José Martí
How envious I am that the sun may kiss your porcelain skin and forever change how the world sees you.
— Phar West Nagle
And in that moment with the warmth of the sun and coolness of the rock and the mountains and cedar all around her, she knew she would be okay with whatever happened to her. And with that thought, never before had she felt so free.
— Diane Les Becquets
Agony’s PlotA zephyr skimmedacross my creamy skingently kissingwhere the sun had been….
— Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
You must not waste your one day here. When the sun shines, you let it shine on you. Snow is always waiting.
— Gayle Forman, Just One Day
Love without restraint makes one saint and the other faint the sweetest face and the tenderest embrace bring the sun to every place in such grace.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual
And the sun on the wall of her room, the block of sun with all the tiny flying things in it. When she was little she thought they were the souls of dead insects, still buzzing in the light.
— Tim Winton, The Riders
Each day the sun kisses the day goodnight yet no two days are alike.
— Brent M. Jones
I walked out and breathed fresh air. I felt the sun on my skin. The world is a different place when you are well, when you are young. The world is beautiful and safe. I said hello to the gatekeeper. He said hello back to me.
— Sarah Winman, When God Was a Rabbit
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
— John F. Kennedy
Therefore, since the world has stillMuch good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endureLuck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure, I’d face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.
— A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad
Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water!
— Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
— John Berger, Ways of Seeing
Shine like the sun in darkness.
— Debasish Mridha
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
— David Viscott
When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
The fog may seem thick but the sun will surely pierce through and brighten up the sky. Allow yourself to continue to rest on the wings of God’s love and watch yourself learn to soar high.
— Kemi Sogunle
Animation is a great way to work. No early morning call times, no make-up chair. In live action, you’re always fighting the clock; the sun is always going down too soon.
— John C. Reilly
Night always turns to day again as long as the sun shall rise, so shall it be for darkened dreams grown pale from compromise
— Tracy L. Conway, I Wandered from New Orleans: Poems from the South
The desert, when the sun comes up…I couldn’t tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.
— Tom Hanks
The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
— Confucius
Hi.” He turned and saw Kelsey standing in the door of the kitchen, looking . . . Well, she wasglowing. That pregnant woman glow, maybe? Or just the sun hitting her face at the right time. Eitherway, she looked hot, and he noticed
— Maisey Yates, Unexpected
They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged.
— Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
You are beloved; even if you were the last person on earth, the sun would rise for you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimate art.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Life seemed ideal to him right then, and he was happy for the first time in a long time, and it felt like the sun was shining from his heart.” – from the novel Brainjob by David Sloma.
— David Sloma, Brainjob
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
— Satchel Paige
Nature is the guardian of Africa. While the sun lights the African sky in day time, the moon begs the world to help her lighting Africa in the night
— Munia Khan
God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine. God went out of my fingers. They became stone. My body became a side of mutton and despair roamed the slaughterhouse.
— Anne Sexton, The Awful Rowing Toward God
Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.
— Markus Zusak, Getting the Girl
Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don’t worry…I’m here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.
— Charles M. Schulz
In the presence of the sun nobody sees the stars; excel, and you too will eclipse your competition.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
— Isaac Newton
[A] book is not merely a book, it is the sun as well.
— Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple
Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity
— Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle
Adán fell asleep to these stories and slept like the dead until the sun struck him in the eyes and the whole long, wonderful summer day started again with the smell of fresh tortillas, manchaca, chorizo, and fat, sweet oranges.
— Don Winslow, The Power of the Dog
He needed the warmth of the sun to take away the chill of foreboding that grew in him.
— Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind
there is no gift or asset that is so precious than to have another 24hours to prove how worthy or not our existence under the sun is. leave a distinctive footprint each day
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?
Shadows are in reality when the sun is shining the most conspicuous thing in a landscape next to the highest lights.
— John Ruskin
If you can’t see the sun then too many things stand in your way. Sometimes, you have to climb to the top of all your fears to see any horizon, such is life. God needs to you rise higher before you will ever “see” something different.
— Shannon L. Alder
Wounds are inspirations to make us stronger than the sun which blazes the day to be longer
— Munia Khan
Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the Rim. And the sun made a gold of every one of them.
— Anne McCaffrey, Nerilka’s Story
I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.
— Linda Ellerbee
God is not only something metaphysical, but also the physical world, the plants and animals, the mountains and rivers, the air and the sun and the earth.
— Jeffrey R. Anderson
from RIVERMy body is filled with sand. The heavy grains flow from my eyes and seek somewhere to fall.Speak to me friends. Tell me I am free to go now, for I need to sit alone in the sun on the river bank, juggling pebbles.
— Jay Woodman, SPAN
Lets toil under the sun to build poles of love. And let our roots be planted like strong trees that strong winds can’t move.
— Auliq Ice
I love coming back into Chersonesus in the afternoon; the city is lit up by the sun beginning to set. The sound of the water rushing past the hull, and the sky is as blue as Helena’s eyes.”“Did I hear a woman’s name?
— Destin Bays, True Love
The mole is an animal that digs passages searching for the sun. Sometimes he reaches the surface. When he looks at the sun he goes blind.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
The sun that shines today is the sun that shone when thy father was born, andwill still be shining when thy last grandchild shall pass into the darkness.
— George S. Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon
If you try to extinguish the light of one who shines like the sun you will get burned.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
She was as necessary as the sun to me
— Tiffany Baker, The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
He who cannot pray when the sun is shining will not know how to pray when the clouds come.
— Anonymous
What i’m saying is that the sun always rises. Fortune’s a mix of good and bad luck. Like they say/ good luck and bad luck are strands of the same rope.
— Sakura Tsukuba, Land of the Blindfolded, Vol. 8
It was then I thought of Corsica, the place we had discovered together. I craved the wind, the sun and salt, the simplicity of the island.
— Lucy Foley, The Book of Lost and Found
The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?
— Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
Life is too short to not have fun we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.
— Coolio
You can only hide the sun for so long.
— E.M. Markoff, The Deadbringer
I just…I’ve fantasized about peace and quiet for so long, dreamt about being left alone…but when the TV was off, and the sun was down…I’m in a full sob right now. I’ve just never felt so alone, and I couldn’t take it.
— Andrea Randall, In the Stillness
You are the sun and the rain, the water and the plants, the birds and the animals. There is no such thing as ‘nature, ’ apart from you and me. You are nature, I am nature, just as you are me and I am you.
— John Lundin, Journey to the Heart of the World
Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink.
— Deb Caletti
Finally the dawn came, the sky fringed with pink, and the sun bright as a coin in a spill of rising red.
— Lauren Slater, The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals
I see a vision, its the vision of tomorrow, no force can stop it from manifesting, not even the sun nor the moon.
— Auliq-Ice
Public “facts” are not like pebbles on the beach, lying in the sun and waiting to be seen. They must instead be picked, polished, shaped and packaged. Finally ready for display they the bear the marks of their shapers.
— Peter Conrad, Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness
It was one of those perfect fall days when the air is cool enough to wake you up but the sun is also kissing your face.
— Anita Diamant, The Boston Girl
The only thing to do with tears is water your flowers with them, so that there is something to show the world when the sun comes out.
— Fran Macilvey, Trapped: My Life with Cerebral Palsy
Whenever the sun is shining, I feel obligated to play outside!
— Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 1: 1950-1952
Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don’t let the sun go down on your anger. If you don’t have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.
— Victoria Osteen
But now, here were the British among us, upon our soil where the sun rises over one lake and sets upon another.
— Dee Farrell, Warrior Heart
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
— Napoléon Bonaparte
Surprises are one of the secrets of a good relationship. Find someone who, out of the blue, will grab you, and a blanket, take you to a secluded spot and canoodle as the sun rises…
— Virginia Alison
Trying to get a fast ball past Hank Aaron is like trying to get the sun past a rooster.
— Curt Simmons
I possess a gorgeous world.I created it and painted it like a fiveyears old, where the sky is wovenwith golden threads and the sun ispearl white.But alas! You can’t observe it as theyare positioned inside my mind myimaginations…-Rohan Nath
— Rohan Nath
It’s almost dawn. You can feel it coming. The world holds its breath, because there’s really no guarantee that the sun will rise. That there was a yesterday doesn’t mean there will be a tomorrow.
— Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
Doubt thou the stars are fire Doubt thou the sun doth moveDoubt truth to be a liar But never doubt I love
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
I felt I could turn the earth upside down with my littlest finger. I wanted to dance, to fly in the air and kiss the sun and stars with my singing heart. I, alone with myself, was enjoying myself for the first time as with grandest company.
— Anzia Yezierska, Bread Givers
The day was cold, and every time the little transparent fans of water swept in and drew back, the wet sand mirrored a clear sky and the sun on its way down.
— Gina Berriault, Stolen Pleasures: Selected Stories of Gina Berriault
I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.
— Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God’s nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, ‘Do as You promised.’
— Charles Spurgeon
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
— Sigmund Freud
Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.
— Ann Druyan
As he farmed, hard labor left his hands callused, the sun bleached his hair, his face leathered, and his heart throbbed with music.
— Brenda Sutton Rose, Dogwood Blues
These two Joes—the nasty bully and the starry-eyed dreamer—were my father. Growing up, the difficulty was knowing just which Joe would rise with the sun that day.
— Pythia Peay, American Icarus: A Memoir of Father and Country
Your ideas have legs and just as they run through your head, they could be running through someone else’s head and it’s just a matter of who gets to the finish line first. Nothing is new under the sun so act on your ideas.
— Sanjo Jendayi
Deciding to spit in the eye of every homely matron who ever warned her children not to stare into the sun directly, you crank the titanic telescope around to look directly towards the sun, the center of our solar system.
— Daniel Keidl, Armageddon: Pick Your Plot
We can bear the sun not to set, but we cannot bear the sun not to rise!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I don’t need your praiseto survive. I was here first, before you were here, beforeyou ever planted a garden.And I’ll be here when only the sun and moonare left, and the sea, and the wide field.I will constitute the field.
— Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
Yes, ” Bernarde quipped, “Deal with me, Jean Luc. Come and dance with the night, brother. Let us battle ‘till the sun turns us to ash.
— Katerina Martinez, Magick Reborn
blue-gold sky, fresh cloud, emerald-black mountain, trees on rocky ledges, on the summit, the tiny pin of a telephone tower-all brilliantly clear, in shadow and out. and on and through everything everywhere the sun shines without reservation (p. 97)
— Barbara Blatner, The Still Position: A Verse Memoir of My Mother’s Death
And I will remember how we made the sun blush every morning.
— Malak El Halabi
Every spark returns to darkness. Every sound returns to silence. Every flower returns to sleep with the earth. The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimateart.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Happy is the man who enjoy warmth of the sun and refresh in the breeze, who is secure within and say I have lived to-day.
— Kishore Bansal
No dark cloud can forever prevent the sun from shining!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The main thing is to writefor the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lustthat imagines its haven like your hands at nightdreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast.You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous.Take off from here.
— Seamus Heaney, Station Island
Put your ears to the ground, to the sky, to the sun and the moon… tune in to Mother Earth’s sweet song. She has messages to say, knowledge to relay, inspiration to convey… there is much for you to learn. Your journey has just begun.
— Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy
First smile!! An unseasonal little shower of rain fell here, and a lot of butterflies drowned, so we put them in the sun and they came back to life, and flew up and then Agaat SMILED!
— Marlene Van Niekerk, Agaat
When people close to me lie to me or try manipulating me, I feel like I know how the sun feels when the clouds steal the sun’s thunder.
— Tammy Wooster
The sun gives us light but the moon provides inspiration. If you look at the sun without shielding your eyes you’ll go blind. If you look at the moon without covering your eyes you’ll become a poet.
— Serge Bouchard
Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.
— Walter Colton
Many nights I watch the sun set. Many nights I watch the moon. They fascinate me. They’re the only things I get to share with everyone: the stars, the moon, the universe.
— Danielle Esplin, Give It Back
On a cloudy day, be the sun in someone’s sky.
— Debasish Mridha
There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it’s flashing glory.
— Betty Smith
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is sh
— John F. Kennedy
I will wait for you until the gold from the sun dwindles away.
— H.S. Crow, Lunora and the Monster King
They probably think the sun won’t come up unless you’re there to allow it.
— Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.
— Gamaliel Bailey
But if God is the flowers and the treesAnd the hills and the sun and the moonlight, Then I believe in him, Then I believe in him all the time, And my whole life is an oration and a mass, And a communion with my eyes and through my ears.
— Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
Where is it?” I asked, willing him to tell me.He laughed suddenly, and I could hear the full-throated, grating sound of the white bear’s laughter in it.”East of the sun and west of the moon, ” he said.
— Edith Pattou, East
He had no idea how to deal with the staggering amount of grief he felt, so he looked to the sun and blinded himself with its light.
— Scott Stabile
When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.
— Lin Yutang
After a long time when the sun finally comes out of the clouds, the Earth salutes it by striking its best pose!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
It is like the man who closes his eyes to the sun and then finds himself walking over the edge of a cliff. If the man is too foolish to use the gift of light given to him, how can the sun be blamed for his death?
— Katie Beitz, The Shadow Miner
Why, it would be such fun, ‘ he chuckled, ‘to just forget all about the hours when the sun didn’t shine, and remember only the nice, pleasant ones.
— Eleanor H. Porter, Just David
Don’t get caught staring at the moon while the sun is rising. Yesterday’s problem should never become today’s concern.
— Tyconis D. Allison Ty
He had become the sky around the sun – alive, but not really there.
— Carla H. Krueger, Sleeping with the Sun
S:uch is Heaven on Earth, in all landA:s the sun brightens to the moon N:ails the Creation in a palm of a hand, D:ancing IT makes the desert bloom.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic
The Love that moves the sun and the other stars.
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso
I think the way the sun shines on you has nothing to do with the sun but everything to do with you.
— Christina Strigas
Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
— Marcus Aurelius, The Emperor’s Handbook
It had all seemed as inevitable as sunset. Instead it was the beauty of the sun glinting upon the scythe.
— Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce
And if you don’t believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.
— Chris Cornell
In the land of genius, the sun always shines; in the land of clever, there are many clouds!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.
— Albert Camus
The sun that warms is also the sun that burns.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Never, baby. Between us, the sun is never going down.
— J. Kenner, Release Me
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
— Ambrose Bierce
How much of my fever-induced dream was real? I felt safe assuming that my time as a bee was fiction, as well as a few mythological animals that I swear I’d seen. Then I’d lived on the sun with aliens.
— Cora Carmack
I can’t live without the sun shining down on my face, and I can’t dream without the stars kissing me goodnight.
— S.L. Jennings, Taint
The twilight seems invidious.It simply can’t let the sun hide away when darkness is just another name for night..
— Munia Khan
I was planning on giving them the sun and stars as well. It’s kind of a package deal; therefore, the moon is for lovers. The stars are for partners. The sun … for best friends.
— Rachel Van Dyken, The Consequence of Revenge
You can’t stop me from liking you. It’s just a thing. Like the sun rising and the tides coming in.
— Jen Frederick, Jockblocked
Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can’t keep these thoughts of You from passing by.
— Rich Mullins
Hey, Frenchie!” Sage poked his head out the door, the sun hitting the brown of his hair to reveal hidden strands of red. “Did you bring any baguettes?”“Why don’t you go season something, Herb?
— Nalini Singh, Secrets at Midnight
We lie on the blanket, our bare bodies basking in the sun like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Only our apples were bitten a long time ago, and we ate them too.
— Henry Martin, Finding Eivissa
The blue of daylightfades and chills as the sun sinksbeneath clouds of fire.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Buried emotions are caged nighthawks that have fallen in love with the moon. They don’t understand the sun because they were born with the darkness of shadows in their soul.
— Shannon L. Alder
Rising and falling of the sun confirm Your kingship and Your rulership.
— Euginia Herlihy
Struggles put you in a position to make better decisions. You’ll survive and should take the lessons learned especially in order to move forward in life. It may have been raining in your life for a moment, but the sun will shine again
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
I possess a gorgeous world.I created it and painted it like a fiveyears old, where the sky is wovenwith golden threads and the sun ispearl white.But alas! You can’t observe it as theyare positioned inside my mind myimaginations…
— Rohan Nath
Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
— Satchel Paige
The horizon changes but the sun does not.
— Joyce Rachelle
There is one glory of the sun and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
— Anonymous
The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
— Wallace Stevens
If the moon faerie became like the sun faerie, there would be eternal day and if the sun faerie became like the moon faerie, it would be pitch dark. Therefore you balance each other out. Do you see?
— Anja Owona Okoa, What if we’re faeries?
Oh sky…I won’t ask so much as to become the sun or the moon, just one of the stars in between…
— Lucia Jang
Nothing in my life would mean anything if you weren’t here to share it. There’d be no reason to get up in the morning without you to light the sun with your smile.
— Maggie Osborne, Silver Lining
Whiteness is the color of death, you know, not black. Wetness is life, the breeder and shaper of life. In the beginning the sun was black. So all light was absorbed before it had a chance to return. And our dreams, then, were empty.
— Jim Carroll
A fool who cursed the sun was surprised to see it still shining.
— Marty Rubin
As sure as shadow follows substance and the sun rises on the east and sets on the west, a person who exercises professional excellence will be followed by success.
— Rex Resurreccion, Called To Excel
We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep going.
— Ace Antonio Hall
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is–as the light called human life is–at its coming and its going.
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
As the sun shines I will make hayTo keep failure at bayFor there remaineth a payFor my honest toil each day.
— Ogwo David Emenike
Love is not a spaceship you construct and then fly off together into the stars. Love is a soap bubble that bursts in the air. Love is the first winter snowflake that falls into you palm, a mirage that glows in the sun and fades in the shadows.
— Chloe Thurlow, Girl Trade
Loyalty is still the same Whether it win or lose the game True as a dial to the sun Although it be not shined upon.
— Samuel Butler
Behind all the falling rain, the sun still hangs in the sky. And if the sun can hang in there through the rain, surely you can, too.
— Elsie Hillman-Gordon, Love Is Everything
it is the deep-black-sky quiet time of night, which is the halfway time between the sun setting and the sun rising when even the night animals are quiet—as if they, like day animals, take a break in the middle of their work to rest.
— Alexandra Fuller
whenever the sun is going up, it’s not going down
— Bram Bertels
My job is to scream cockle-doodle-doo. Don’t blame me if the sun doesn’t rise.
— Janet Skeslien Charles, Moonlight in Odessa
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
— C.S. Lewis
Charlotte, Will’s beingvexing.”And the sun has come up in the east, ‘said Jem, to no one in particular.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realise that it is August: the summer’s last stand.
— Sara Baume, A Line Made by Walking
We were never supposed to worship time like we worship the sun and the light it brings.The only gift that time brings us, as human beings, is a signal that our life here on Earth is not permanent, it is fleeting.
— Courtney Beck, Conversations with Krishna
Most of these wild animals depart in autumn when the sun changes their behavior and they feel the urge to migrate or go off alone. While they are with us, however, they become characters in my books, articles, and stories.
— Jean Craighead George
nights and days came and passedand summer and winterand the sun and the windand the rain.and it was good to be a little islanda part of the worldand a world of its ownall surrounded by the bright blue sea.
— Margaret Wise Brown, The Little Island
I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men’s apples and head their cabbages.
— Cyrano de Bergerac
When you’re in love, the sun never stops shining.
— Anthony T. Hincks
It’s natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity’s highest cal
— Steven Pinker
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
— James Dent
When the sun sets, life gets darker in the country; when a bad leader sinks, life gets brighter in the country!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I didn’t want the sun to rise. I didn’t want the world to continue turning. I wanted the whole planet put into stasis until I could catch up.
— Anna Sheehan, A Long, Long Sleep
Every morning, the sun rises with endless possibilities that give you endless opportunities to begin again and to create a brand-new life.
— Debasish Mridha
All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;but a hidden star can still be smiling at night’s black spell on darkness, beguiling
— Munia Khan
Saw the sun rise. A lovely apricot sky with flames in it and then solemn pink. Heavens, how beautiful…I feel so full of love to-day after having seen the sun rise.
— Katherine Mansfield, Journal of Katherine Mansfield
You seem to think you have a choice, ” Cam said. “But you have it backwards. Love chooses you. The shadow moves as the sun commands.
— Lisa Kleypas, Married By Morning
It was one of those perfect summer days – the sun was shining a breeze was blowing the birds were singing and the lawnmower was broken.
— James Dent
If the sun needed friends to shine, it would not rule the sky alone.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Helios thought he looked pretty hot, and he had an annoying habit of calling the sun his “chick magnet.
— Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun
— Pablo Picasso
Ability, commitment, effort. Those are the three things required to succeed. If you have them, success will happen as sure as the sun will rise.You just have to give it time
— Cassandra Sky West
As the sun rose I could see Etna, a truncated cone with a plume of smoke over it like the quill of a pen stuck in a pewter inkpot, rising out of the haze to the north of where I was treading water.
— Eric Newby, Love and War in the Apennines
Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupations is exhilarating and life-giving.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The lights are off and the sun if finally setting, the night sky is changing overhead
— Tegan Quin
My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.
— Gabriel García Márquez
Never did an eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
— Karen Amanda Hooper, Tangled Tides
Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.
— Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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