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Quotes About Sunlight

...sunlight is (life and day are)only loaned:whereas night is given(night and death and the rain are given;and given is how beautifully snow)
~ e. e. cummings
And there she was, framed against the bright sunlight reflecting from the snow outside and as breathtakingly beautiful as he knew he would always remember her to be, no matter how long he lived or how old they might become.
~ John Flanagan
Capricious river draughts, sucking up the damp defile, whipped upward into the blistering sunlight gray spiral towers that leaped into opal fires and dissolved in showers of diamond and pearl and amethyst.
~ John G. Neihardt
I prefer rain -sometimes I feel sunlight will turn me to stone - perhaps I'm a Troll...
~ John Geddes
I remember the oily smoke of a cigarette suspended in a shaft of sunlight - with you, everything was beautiful...
~ John Geddes A Familiar Rain
As I went through the city by day I saw shadows in sunlight; But in the night I saw everywhere Stars within the darkness.
~ John Gould Fletcher
For I belong to the sunlight, This I would not barter for any kingdom.
~ John Gould Fletcher
Force and yielding meet together, An attack is half repulsed; Shafts of broken sunlight dissolving, Convolutions of torpid cloud.
~ John Gould Fletcher
The windows of my soul I throw Wide open to the sun.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
huge gemstone at its center flashed in the sunlight and caught everyone's gaze:
~ John Guy
Fear dims even the sunlight.
~ John Howard Griffin
Light is important to us humans. It influences our moods, our perceptions, our energy levels. A face glimpsed among trees, dappled by the shadows and the green-tinged light reflected from the forest, will seem quite different to the same face seen on a beach in hard, dry, sunlight, or in a darkening room at twilight, with the shadows of a venetian blind striped across it like a convict's uniform.
~ John Marsden
When the massive door swung open, though, and the puff of escaping air sailed them grandly into the crooked sunlight between the world's vast webworked cables, Rien forgot everything but the cold black fire-pricked vault of the universe stretching out forever, and the wheeling world that framed it on each side.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Katya, Lesa's surviving daughter, surprised the activity on the veranda, her glossy black hair braided off her neck, unhatted in the sun.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Listen - of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
The storm had passed and the whole fen lay bathed in spent sunlight. Every stream and stretch of water among the rushes, which had been whipped and tormented by the storm, lay quiet now, reflecting the piled masses of white and silver clouds that floated like swans on the far deep pools of the sky. Every twig was strung with sparkling crystal drops, and every drop had a rainbow caught in its heart.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
the house seemed filled with dusty sunlight, which rose politely from wherever it had been resting on floors and windowsills, and then hung motionless and golden in the air until they moved to another room.
~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
A man with no name may you claim, heart and body and soul. Then rich life might grow, but death will surely flow. "'In shades of darkness he will come to you. If you touch him, you will know life that might or death that will. "'Be therefore as sunlight, hidden in amber, untouched by man, not touching. "'Forbidden.
~ Elizabeth Lowell
The sun flitered in through the small, dirty windows, catches his eyes. They are brown, ordinary, but the way he looks at me—no one has ever looked at me like he does. He looks at me like he sees something. Someone. Me. "All right," he says, and puts his hands behind his head. "Go ahead.
~ Elizabeth Scott
For who plans suicide sitting in the sun?
~ Elizabeth Smart
A little bit she was aware of the beauty she walked by, the sunlight sparkling off the quiet lake, the bare trees - it was beautiful, she was not unaware of this, but it was futile, and far away. Mostly she looked down at the muddy roots in front of her; the path, uneven with its little use, required concentration to maneuver. Perhaps it was the concentration that allowed her into the day.
~ Elizabeth Strout
and suddenly, it seemed, he lay in the sunlight, beautiful with his olive skin, dark haired, dark eyed, the gleaming bodily vision of a strayed faun.
~ Arthur Machen
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek the sunlight. The Universe did not create Life in the hope that the failure of the majority would underscore the success of the few.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar