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Quotes About Brightness

One would have called it a luminous wound.
~ Victor Hugo
Kad ne bi niko volio, sunce bi se ugasilo.
~ Victor Hugo
This clarity, history, is unforgiving. What is strange about it is that, though it brings light, and precisely because it brings light, it often casts a shadow in the places where brightness used to be seen
~ Victor Hugo
She was a star, burning so brightly it broke apart, pieces flying, light spraying.
~ Kristin Hannah
Love was the sun and the moon and the stars in a world that was otherwise cold and dark.
~ Kristin Hannah
Then she went to Damon. He was still lying where he had fallen. The ghosts had passed over him, taking no notice of him. Elena's brightness hovered over him, one shining hand reaching to touch his hair. Then she bent and kissed the dark head on the ground.
~ L.J. Smith
What did we talk about that has left me with an impression of wings and flashes, as of air displaced by the flight of a bird? Of swooping and soaring, of a faint iridescence subdued to the enfolding brightness of the day?
~ L.P. Hartley
She is in love. It is bright within her, like a swallowed star.
~ Laini Taylor
The snow is sparkling like a million little suns.
~ Lama Willa Miller
The light that burned twice as bright burned half as long.
~ Cassandra Clare
I only count the hours that shine.
~ Cassandra Clare
We may not be all that bright, Jace said, but at least we are alive.
~ Cassandra Clare
It is unnecessary to heighten the glory of day by comparing it with the preceding twilight.
~ Catharine Maria Sedgwick
It is warm in Gaza. Air shimmers up from the road, and the old white stone in the buildings seems to make everything brighter, warmer. Sun, no clouds, no rain.
~ Cathryn Clinton
With rest you might find the world a small bit brighter.
~ Geraldine Brooks
I can't stand dark and dreariness in a house. We have enough of it in our lives without creating it for ourselves
~ Geraldine O'Neill
He let in the light.
~ Gloria Steinem
Look for the Sunlight through the Clouds.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Your hugs and kisses are like the stars that light up my life when things get dark.
~ Author Unknown
I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There was the shadow of sorrow, yes. It would always be there. But that was the nature of life. The bright mirror and the dark, reflecting one another. And today there was so much brightness.
~ Jacqueline Carey
finding brightness in the shadow of sorrow and suffering, weaving the strands of loss and anguish into a fabric of togetherness.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Just because the circumstances might be almost intolerable does not mean there are not moments when the light shines in.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
and wife are two windows, each letting light into a home, light that seamlessly blends, brightening and sanctifying the marriage
~ James Conroyd Martin
blue eyes so light that it looked like she sent them out to be bleached
~ James Ellroy