Quotes About Brightness

A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness; a bumblebee has entered the room and bumps against the ceiling. Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.

I would stare at the honest brightness of the gasoline paraphernalia against the splendid green of oaks or at a distant hill scrambling out — scarred but still untamed — from the wilderness of agriculture that was trying to swallow it.

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

It's impossible to imagine my mother like that. I cannot imagine her softened, thawed, decayed, becoming sweeter as she spoils. I imagine her trapped in a mirror instead. A permanent image of her locked into a rectangle of hard brightness, open-eyed.

Beautiful women. The world, at that time, was full of them, all of them furiously incandescent like dying stars.

It seems inappropriate for the light to be so bright, for the sky to be so blue, and he's relieved when a cloud drifts over the sun and the water turns from silver to gray.

The silverware shines if the sun. (L'argenterie brille - Si le soleil.

The water shines only by the sun. And it is you who are my sun. (L'eau ne brille que par le soleil. - Et c'est toi qui es mon soleil.)

Your eyes stole at dawn his clarity. (Tes yeux ont volé A l'aube sa clarté)

I saw that the bride within the bridal dress has withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes

Heaven be thanked, I love its light and feel the cheerfulness it sheds upon the earth, as much as any creature living.

Some people likened him to a direction-post, which is always telling the way to a place, and never goes there; but these were his enemies, the shadows cast by his brightness; that was all.

The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

Era daqueles dias de março em que o sol brilha quente e o vento sopra frio, de modo que se tem verão ao sol, e inverno à sombra.

Contemplating the scene?' inquired the dismal man. 'I was,' said Mr. Pickwick. 'And congratulating yourself on being up so soon?' Mr. Pickwick nodded assent. 'Ah! people need to rise early, to see the sun in all his splendour, for his brightness seldom lasts the day through. The morning of day and the morning of life are but too much alike.

If I could hold light in my hand I would give it to you and watch it become your shadow. — Charles Ghigna, "Present light," Love Poems (Crane Hill Publishers, 1999)

Some things in our lives are as constant as the sun and others as fleeting as a shooting star. But we are thankful for all light that brightens our paths.

Glitter needs light to shine. We all do.

candlelight, moonlight, starlight— the brightest glow is from love light

Always look on the bright side of life. Otherwise it'll be too dark to read.

The snow is sparkling like a million little suns.

Brightly woven, Diar,' Aileron said. And then dazzled them all with the warmth of his smile.

Love is liquid sunshine." And there will always be a new day.

a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.