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Quotes About Brightness

We were so far back in the woods, they almost had to pipe in sunlight.
~ Roy Rogers
Sunlight comes into your house not because you want it. It happens because you open the windows." Sadhguru:
~ Sadhguru
The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.
~ Sally Ride
I want to live my life like an incandescent lightbulb. Burn brightly my entire life, and then one day suddenly go out.
~ Sanjay Gupta
Yet I love refinement and Eros has got me brightness and the beauty of the sun.
~ Sappho
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening bream that smiles the clouds away and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
~ Sara Sheridan
The most important thing? Perfect lighting at all times.
~ Oscar de la Renta
How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The splendors of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not; Like stars to their appointed height they climb And death is a low mist which cannot blot The brightness it may veil.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The intrinsic brightness of theSun is fully 5,000 times as great as if the whole surface were formed of the molten steel just issuing from the Bessemer converter.
~ Robert Stawell Ball
angles from their former lofty positions in the sky. Their absence made everything look different, like a fresh haircut exposing a band of untanned skin on a forehead. Even from deep inside the kitchen, Luke could tell the trees were missing because everything was brighter, more open. Scarier.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
Je me souviens mal des jours. L'éclairement solaire ternissait les couleurs, écrasait. Des nuits, je me souviens.Le bleu était plus loin que le ciel, il était derrière toutes les épaisseurs, il recouvrait le fond du monde. Le ciel, pour moi, c'était cette traînée de pure brillance qui traverse le bleu, cette fusion froide au-delà de toute couleur.
~ Marguerite Duras
Dans ce pays ensoleillé tout était lumineux, sauf l'homme.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
As always she was kitted out in the pristine pastels of baby clothes and her little plimsolls were so white my eyes ached. To look directly at them one would need a piece of cardboard with a hole in it, of the type used for viewing a solar eclipse.
~ Marian Keyes
when Flash started to speak about love the word floated in the same sort of way, only closer in and brighter and with far more mystery, but also with the smell of eggs, and other men, and beer.
~ Marianne Wiggins
Las lámparas sin electricidad no dan luz, y la electricidad sin lámparas, tampoco. Juntas, sin embargo, eliminan toda oscuridad.
~ Marianne Williamson
and even when I was broken the way sometimes one can be broken, and even though I had fallen, I found upon arising that I was stronger than before, that the glories, if I may call them that, which I had loved so much and that had been darkened in my fall, were shinning even brighter and nearly everytime subsequently I have fallen and darkness has come over me, they have obstinately arisen, not as they were, but brighter.
~ Mark Helprin
The girl went through the experience that we all go through and forget, the moment we are born. She saw, but it did not mean anything but a lot of different kinds of brightness.
~ Annie Dillard
The crematorium was a blaze of sunshine.
~ Anthony Powell
There was a quiet, even composure about her, always lightened by the brightness of her modest eyes, which seemed to tell him of some mysterious world within, which was like the unseen loveliness that one fancies to be hidden within the bosom of distant mountains. There
~ Anthony Trollope
For them both a thousand lamps were lit.
~ Anya Seton
Cassini—who discovered Japetus in 1671—also observed that it was six times brighter on one side of its orbit than the other.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Week by week, month by month, it slowly faded, though even when it moved back into the daylight sky it was still easy to find if one knew exactly where to look. And at night for years it was often the brightest of the stars. Mirissa saw it one last time, just before her eyesight failed.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
You bring more light into this room than the window
~ Shirley Jackson