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Quotes About Brightness

The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye and disappears in its own brightness. Like a flame, whose meaning is light but whose centre is dark, it demands to be undefined.
~ Alice Oswald
One bright star is better than a thousand dull moons.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
It is not the size of the candle that matters, but the size of its light.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The moon cannot outshine the sun.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Light makes light even brighter, but does not cancel it.
~ Steven Chopade
Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows will fall behind you.
~ Maori proverb
One of the primary ways that astronomers study stars is to spread their light out into a rainbow, which we call a spectrum, and from that rainbow, we can learn something about what the stars are composed of and how hot they are, how bright they are, and how they're moving, at least how they're moving toward or away from us.
~ Nancy Roman
For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.
~ Amy Tan
Don't shade your eyes from the bright joy of the world.
~ Terri Guillemets
Candle light, moon light, star light, The brightest glow is from love light.
~ Terri Guillemets
The world is a sunny success.
~ Terri Guillemets
Nothing, for us, can fill the place of undiminished brightness except the unconscious dark; nothing that of what once we might have been, except the dream that we had never been born.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
You're like a sharp bright piece broken from a star. Too sharp, too bright, sometimes, for your own good.
~ Nicola Griffith
Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It's called the sun. Let's go get us a little.
~ Nora Roberts
Where there is a great deal of light, the shadows are deeper.
~ Nora Roberts
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~ Nora Roberts
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~ Nora Roberts
While shadows are never dispelled completely, it is due to them the light shines bright.
~ Nora Roberts
He is less a human-shaped thing and more a pulsing, living band of light. Light that sometimes dims, that sometimes is thrust through with a vein of darkness. She tells herself that it's normal—Luke said to her, Leia, we all have that. He explained that the brighter the light, the darker the shadow. Right
~ Chuck Wendig
Dawn was close. The weaker stars had already disappeared, and even the brightest were uncertain of themselves.
~ Clive Barker
The symphony of motherhood, it's about loving with absolute abandon, loving without regard for self, loving with a near totality of being. It's about a passion that could outburn the sun with its brightness. About a depthless hope and a fierce, rending joy.
~ Cody McFadyen
His eyes were bright, and, indeed, he scarcely knew whether they held dreams or realities...and in five minutes she had filled the shell of the old dream with the flesh of life...
~ Virginia Woolf
But the stillness and the brightness of the day were as strange as the chaos and tumult of night, with the trees standing there, and the flowers standing there, looking before them, looking up, yet beholding nothing, eyeless, and so terrible.
~ Virginia Woolf
She burnt like a dead white star.
~ Virginia Woolf