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Quotes About Brightness

Yes, Imma was consoled but only because Lila was introducing her to a permanent stream of splendors and miseries, a cyclical Naples where everything was marvelous and everything became gray and irrational and everything sparkled again, as when a cloud passes over the sun and the sun appears to flee, a timid, pale disk, near extinction, but not look, once the cloud dissolves it's suddenly dazzling again, so bright you have to shield your eyes with your hand.
~ Elena Ferrante
was stört, ist die Zeit, die seit ihrer Geburt schon vergangen ist ! Besonders hier, wo es hell ist... Doch das Licht der Liebe ... ist auf sie gefallen, hat sie als ein im Fallen schon aufgeplatztes Sackerl Abfall auf den Boden geworfen.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
The world looked particularly crisp and etched-out in the sunlight.
~ Elif Batuman
The sun burned white, conjugating its colorlessness, it's fixed, blazing surface, against sand so blank that it induced visions.
~ Antonio Di Benedetto
In full light we are not even a shadow.
~ Antonio Porchia
A person who burns from inside like the sun or a lamp can be a guiding light into others life and its luminous flux decides as how much a preacher's life is right; and the people who can't or don't, seem bright only to those who have mere eyesight without a vision inside but just a minuscule glare.
~ Anuj Somany
A talent shines bright till he remains away from the limelight, because under the spotlight the glare of bulb and tube light dims his light.
~ Anuj Somany
Fools praise only the people who are seen at top height and basking in the glare of media limelight; the wise appreciates merely a person who is truly bright for glowing solely with own inner light regardless of his place and position in the society as a matter of valid point.
~ Anuj Somany
You are who I love, you struggling to see You struggling to love or find a question You better than me You are who I love weeping or touching the faces of the weeping You noticing the butterflies You in brightness and in darkness, throwing your head back as you laugh, kissing your hand You studying stars, you are who I love
~ Aracelis Girmay
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
~ Arlo Guthrie
When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
~ Oprah Winfrey
It looks like the future's really bright.
~ Michael P. Anderson
It is a comfort to me to know that above the steam and filth of human lowlands there is a higher, brighter humanity, very small in number (for everything outstanding is by its nature rare): one belongs to it, not because one is more talented or more virtuous or more heroic or more loving than the men below, but—because one is colder, brighter, more far-seeing, more solitary; because one endures, prefers, demands solitude as happiness.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
People think I'm thick because of the characters I play. I think I'm brighter than the characters. Well, I hope I am.
~ Kevin Whately
I like the sun." "Do you really? I didn't think you'd go in for simple things like sun. You're the neon type, aren't you?" "If you say so.
~ Ross MacDonald
The way to extinguish a shadow is to increase the light.
~ Ryder Windham
The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
~ Marcus Aurelius
More often than not, she acted as if she wanted to protect him, from the image of herself--herself in the past. She liked to keep only the bright side of herself turned towards him. She liked to shine.
~ Margaret Atwood
She liked to keep only the bright side of herself turned towards him. She liked to shine.
~ Margaret Atwood
It's old light, and there's not much of it. But it is enough to see by.
~ Margaret Atwood
I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.
~ Margaret Atwood
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
~ Robert Staughton Lynd
Some are bound to die young. By dying young a person stays young in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his brightness shines for all time.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I'm happy when I see him, and happier still if the sun shines when we're together
~ Anne Frank