Quotes About Brightness

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

I've come to realize that the only truths that matter to me are the ones I don't, and can't, understand. What's mysterious, ambiguous, inexplicable. What doesn't fit into a story, what doesn't have a story. Glint of brightness on a barely-there chain. Patch of sunlight on a yellow wall. The loneliness that separates every living creature from every other

This was a different, more affable energy, with the pills: a combination of sluggishness and brightness, a bemused, goofy, floating quality. His walk was looser. He napped more, nodded agreeably, lost the thread of his arguments, ambled about barefoot with his bathrobe halfway open.

The daylight shouldered its way in like a squad of policemen and did a lot of what's-all-thising around the room

At the end of the small hours: life flat on its face, miscarried dreams and nowhere to put them, the river of life listless in its hopeless bed, not rising or falling, unsure of its flow, lamentably empty, the heavy impartial shadow of boredom creeping over the quality of all things, the air stagnant, unbroken by the brightness of a single bird.

I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.

There was a great brightness and, um...Imagine what it would look like if you could see music, or thought.

He saw light, dazzling, blinding, and it scared him.

The city's all brightness and shadow, deckle-edged, bluer than air-there's no help anywhere-you no longer know how to listen.

Sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say, 'You're bright!' They're actually surprised I might be bright.

the birds] were the yellow of all yellows, the kind of yellow that every other yellow secretly wishes to be.

Right at the beginning, before the pianist could get her wheels up and fly into that storm, she was hit with a con brio, which I figured meant she had to play either with brightness, with coldness, or with cheese.

Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto everything you saw and made it brighter?

It was the brightest entry into darkness.

For if light had a sound, it was that laugh.

Lovely as a spring day but not the sort to make one envious, any more than one would envy the sun its ability to shine.

That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!

If a man's shadow is brighter than himself, than that man becomes the shadow itself!

Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.

Grace comes into the soul as the morning sun into the world: there is first a dawning, then a mean light, and at last the sun in his excellent brightness.

Some girls are bright as the morning / And some girls are blessed with a dark turn of mind.

Like the morning sun, raise the brightness of your love to include everyone.

Orange is the color of the sun. It is vital and a good color generally, indicating thoughtfulness and consideration of others.