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Quotes About Brightness

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
~ William Shakespeare
The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night.
~ William Shakespeare
How is it that the clouds still hang on you? HAMLET Not so, my lord; I am too much i' the sun.
~ William Shakespeare
O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night As a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear - Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
~ William Shakespeare
I am too much in the sun.
~ William Shakespeare
More light and light, more dark and dark our woes.
~ William Shakespeare
Ah, she doth teach the torches to burn bright, it seems she hangs against the cheek of night like a rich jewel from an Ethiope's ear, beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.
~ William Shakespeare
This was not judgment day—only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.
~ William Styron
We're incandescent and it doesn't seem fair." "Fair?" "I mean too much comes to some of us, not enought to all the rest of us. So few of us to do the thinking. I mean so few of us have to be so incandescent.
~ Hilda Doolittle
We die. Think of us like shooting stars, brief but bright.
~ Holly Black
Como estrellas fugases. Hermosos, brillantes, pero efímeros.
~ Holly Black
She thought it was illegal to watch television when the sun was shining.
~ Liane Moriarty
I looked out the windshield in front of us at the milky water of the quarry. The surface shone brightly, even though it was completely dark now, which I thought was quite appropriate.
~ Jeff Lindsay
He's a sunshine bottle.
~ Jerry Spinelli
The louder the babies screamed, the brighter the lights.
~ Jerry Spinelli
When a stargirl cries, she sheds no tears but light.
~ Jerry Spinelli
Don't give up because of the dark days. Succeed in spite of them. The dark days make the bright days seem even brighter. So bright you can hardly stand it.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.
~ Tyron Edwards
You shine very brightly in my heart, and in my mind. Small little truths that I either have to accept or dispel. You will always be safe in my heart, no matter how dark the rest of it may become. You will always shine bright. Stand out among the rest. This much I know.
~ Unknown
Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.
~ Vera Nazarian
It's almost a relief, not having to stare at the sun.
~ Vera Nazarian
I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.
~ Veronica Roth
I think the darkest dark is always attracted to the brightest light.
~ Unknown
Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye.
~ Thomas Nashe