Quotes About Brightness

If one candle is brought into an absolutely dark room, the darkness disappears, and there is light. But if ten or a hundred or a thousand candles are added, the room will become brighter and brighter. Yet the decisive change was brought about by the first candle which penetrated the darkness.57

And though I am estranged from the sun, I am a brightness, lit from within.

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Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness.

Although I have two good Anglepoise lights, I much prefer to work by daylight.

Daylight reveals color; artificial light drains it.

Don't worry, little dhampir. You might be surrounded by clouds, but you'll always be like sunshine to me.

Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn't as bright as it could be.

Still occasionally mistaking brightness for warmth.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had been avoiding for twenty years, and it was exactly as awful as she remembered it.

when she smiled, it seemed the sun might hide its head in defeat.

So bright and golden and fair, so free fro shadow and so lavish of blossom.

The last day of the old year was one of those bright, cold dazzling winter days, which bombard us with their brilliancy, and command our admiration but never our love.

When the lightning struck, the whole prairie would be bathed for a second in white light.

I don't know," Goyeto said. "This is not a very strong sun.

Those huge stars have lasted for millions of years by taking care never to absorb any of the fiery rays lovers all over the world send up at them night after night. To avoid that, the star generates so much heat inside itself that it shatters the rays into a thousand pieces. Any look it receives is immediately repulsed, reflected back onto the earth, like a trick done with mirrors. That is the reason the stars shine so brightly at night.

Autumn, my favorite season, has always made me sad—the brightness of the sky and trees, the promise of hope and renewal always feels like a trick, an invitation for disappointment, instead of a gift.

We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.

Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.

My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star.

Don't let anyone fool you. The stars are always shining. And you don't just see them in the dark. The sun is a star, and it provides light for all of us.

A brief life burns brightly.

Her smile put the sunflower to shame.