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Quotes About Sun

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.
~ Christopher Hitchens
The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down.
~ Eileen Myles
The sun is the biggest metaphor. The sun is the first candle. She can get there by its light.
~ Gregory Maguire
The horizon was frosted with a greenish smear, as if ranks of campfires from distant tribes had divined the news already and were burning an homage to Elphaba before the sun could set on the day of her death. He could smell her in the collar of the cape, and he wept for the first time.
~ Gregory Maguire
Those mountains are my mind's wall and wellspring. Down here, the light is peach colored, and as the sun shifts, one loose shadow, like thought, takes on a sharp edge.
~ Gretel Ehrlich
How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Souvent, en regardant le soleil, je me suis dit « Pourquoi viens-tu chaque jour éclairer tant de souffrances, découvrir tant de douleurs, présider à tant de sottes misères ? »
~ Gustave Flaubert
Tout au milieu, et dans le disque meme du soleil, rayonne la face de Jesus-Christ. Antoine fait le signe de la croix et se remet en prieres.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Oh, to blijedo zimsko sunce! Ono je žalosno kao uspomena na sre?u.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Le soleil, plus bas, semblait saigner.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Il est le soleil qui ne se couche jamais sur l'empire de la passivité moderne. Il recouvre toute la surface du monde et baigne indéfiniment dans sa propre gloire.
~ Guy Debord
And as the wind died away I was plunged into the ghoul-pooled darkness of earth's bowels; for behind the last of the creatures the great brazen door clanged shut with a deafening peal of metallic music whose reverberations swelled out to the distant world to hail the rising sun as Memnon hails it from the banks of the Nile.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
He stretched out his arms toward the sun and prayed in a tongue no villager could understand; though indeed the villagers did not try very hard to understand, since their attention was mostly taken up by the sky and the odd shapes the clouds were assuming.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
I saw the sun peering redly through the last gusts of a little sandstorm that hovered over the nameless city, and marked the quietness of the rest of the landscape.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
The world of native savages was a perfect setting for men who had escaped the reality of civilization. Under a merciless sun, surrounded by an entirely hostile nature, they were confronted with human beings who, living without the future of a purpose and the past of an accomplishment, were as incomprehensible as the inmates of a madhouse.
~ Hannah Arendt
To die, so young to die. No, no, not I, I love the warm sunny skies, light, song, shining eyes, I want no war, no battle cry, No, no, not I.
~ Hannah Senesh
In California, you can stretch your arms out and not be touching another person. You get space, sun and, in general, dignity.
~ Hasan Minhaj
My first novel, 'You Lost Me There,' has been described as a beach read. Tough bracket, beach reads. There's not much room for mistakes when you're competing against the sun for a person's attention.
~ Rosecrans Baldwin
Being from Florida and playing so many tournaments on that beach in Fort Lauderdale, I just want to be on that beach playing.
~ Brooke Sweat
All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, But here is one.
~ Jeff Buckley
When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth.
~ Vitruvius
On the beach, I take my clothes off under a towel.
~ Clare Balding
I'm a very early riser on holiday. I am invariably down at the pool on a sun lounger even before anyone can put a towel on one.
~ Russell Howard
Human experience resembles the battered moon that tracks us in cycles of light and darkness, of life and death, now seeking out and now stealing away from the sun that gives it light and symbolizes eternity.
~ Eugene Kennedy