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Quotes About Brightness

For this was Christmas, which had always been a time of magic, to him and to all the world. This was a brightness, a shining festival, and while its enchantment was on the world the charmed circle of his family and home would be protected against any invasion from outside.
~ Susan Cooper
At the centre of the Light there is a cold white flame
~ Susan Cooper
I looked for the sunniest spot I could find, but you know it was the damnedest thing—it sure looked like the sun and it was bright like the sun, but there was absolutely no warmth coming from it. And this wave of sadness came over me—the sun was just like my mother." (Quote from Heather, a patient)
~ Susan Forward
A moon of startling brightness rose over the rooftops, lifted on a divine, invisible thread...
~ Susan Vreeland
Well, Hodge, wasn't the brightest candle on the birthday cake.
~ Josh Lanyon
Y mira que le gustan las sonrisas de Antonia, con sus diez mil vatios de potencia, su capacidad de iluminar por completo la estancia.
~ Juan Gómez-Jurado
un día seco y duro y caluroso, un día de tanta luz que los cielos parecían blancos y no azules—
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
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
And so the space Of my still consciousness Is full of gilded snow, The which, no cat has eyes enough To see the brightness of. — Ezra Pound, from "Middle-Aged," Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, 1912–22 . Edited by Harriet Monroe. (Chicago, 1912–22)
~ Ezra Pound
She said it was beautiful to be loved, and that it made everything on earth look brighter.
~ Fanny Fern
Where there is sunshine the doctor starves.
~ Flemish Proverb
There are just as many stars in the sky at noon as at midnight, although we cannot see them in the sun's glare.
~ Billy Graham
Myron had two semicontradictory thoughts about Miami. One, the weather was so beautiful he should move down here. Two, sun—there was too much sun down here. Everything was too bright. Even in the airport Myron found himself squinting. This
~ Harlan Coben
Far different was my emotion, when one said to me, with a face like the face of an angel, '' Why should we be bent upon your being better, and make up a bright prospect for you ? I see no brightness in it; and the time seems past for expecting you ever to be well. How my spirits rose in a moment at this recognition of the truth !
~ Harriet Martineau
Everything has a bright side," he said. "The top of even the blackest, thickest cloud shines like silver.
~ Haruki Murakami
The sky was the color of lightbulbs that weren't lit.
~ Heather O'Neill
True, I cannot see the stars scattered like gold dust in the heavens, but stars just as bright shine in my soul.
~ Helen Keller
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
~ Helen Keller
Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow
~ Helen Keller
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot be in the shadows
~ Helen Keller
Keep your face to sunshine and you cannot see the shadows
~ Helen Keller
Hãy quay v? phía m?t tr?i và b?n s? không th?y bóng t?i
~ Helen Keller
ZENITH NOON beats out on its solar anvil the rays of light
~ Sonia Delaunay
Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and eternal knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses.
~ Sri Aurobindo