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Quotes About Sunlight

The kindness she'd offered had been as warm and soft as skin, as soothing as calm water, as sustaining as the sunlight he no longer knew.
~ J.R. Ward
Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.
~ Wyndham Lewis
Being outside during the space walk, the view of the Earth is just spectacular, and getting a chance to do that is just unbelievable, everything about it. You are going around the Earth at 17,500 miles an hour, so you have 45 minutes of sunlight followed by 45 minutes of darkness. You do a lap every 90 minutes.
~ Michael J. Massimino
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
~ Victor Hugo
And, she thinks, as she looks around this sun-filled room, colored leaves pressing against the window like bits of colored glass inside a kaleidoscope, that maybe finding home is as simple, and as difficult, as finding hope.
~ T. Greenwood
Sudden in a shaft of sunlightEven while the dust movesThere rises the hidden laughterOf children in the foliageQuick now, here, now, always—Ridiculous the waste sad timeStretching before and after.
~ T. S. Eliot
John Jay og Beatty dukket fram fra en treklynge, de leide hestene i tøylene mens de langsomt spaserte ut i sollyset, tydeligvis fortapt for alt annet enn hverandre.(...) Du store tid, du får det til å høres ut som om vi var på deres alder, la hun til og nikket mot det middelaldrende parets silhuetter mot våningshuset.
~ Tamara McKinley
sunlight bringing the battered wood of the table alive with an impossible holy glow.
~ Tana French
When I think about the Spain case, from deep inside endless nights, this is the moment I remember. Everything else, every other slip and stumble along the way, could have been redeemed. This is the one I clench tight because of how sharp it slices. Cold still air, a weak ray of sun glowing on the wall outside the window, smell of stale bread and apples.
~ Tana French
I have to get at least 20 minutes of sun every day. An hour is the best because it's good for you. You need it. I need it to have that little spark.
~ Alexis Ren
The sun shafted in and made her eyes glow, picking out glints of yellow in irises that were mostly green and brown.
~ Neal Stephenson
the hottest part of the day on Earth is not at noon, but sometime after noon, because the ground absorbs visible light
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Outside the hospital, I squinted in the harsh morning sunlight. I could hear birds chirping in the tree, but even though I searched for them, they remained hidden from me.
~ Nicholas Sparks
You would think that UV just causes mutations, but it doesn't; you need a gene to be active for it.
~ Cynthia Kenyon
Raven woke slowly, in a dense fog, layers and layers of it. Somehow she knew she wasn't supposed to wake, but nevertheless it was imperative she do so. She pried her eyes open and turned her head toward the window. Sunlight was streaming in. She pushed herself into a sitting position, the covers sliding away to expose bare skin. "Mikhail," she whispered aloud, "you take altogether too many liberties.
~ Christine Feehan
Gregori waited until Mikhail and Jacques had disappeared before allowing his body to dissolve. He launched himself skyward, wincing as the sun's light, penetrating the dark clouds, hit his eyes. He cursed silently. Raven was alone with a woman who knew next to nothing about their people's capabilities. She was very weak. The child was his only hope, and it was stupidity to rescue a Carpathian male who was on the verge of turning. A few more years and Gregori would be hunting him.
~ Christine Feehan
Some miles to the North, a ring of mountains rose out of the clouds. The peaks were clad in snow and ice, and together they looked like an ancient, jagged crown resting atop the layers of mist. The eastward-facing scarps shone brilliantly in the light of the morning sun, while long blue shadows cloaked the western sides and stretched dwindling into the distance, tenebrous daggers upon the billowy, snow-white plain.
~ Christopher Paolini
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
~ Victor Hugo
In the morning, when he entered my room, I grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a cupid like that child.
~ Victor Hugo
Old men need affection as they need the sun.
~ Victor Hugo
Sunshine helps to make man patient.
~ Victor Hugo
Sunlight changed all that, and in May, when the rains paused, bright pink and purple azaleas bloomed overnight, and everywhere was lime-green new growth—on the lawns, in the shoots of fragile leaves along the roadsides
~ Kristin Hannah
Unless he reached out now, in the days that mattered, he would learn that some roads could not be refound and that true love took time and effort Ã¢â'¬Â¦ that a life lived in the glare of summer sunlight never produced a rainbow.
~ Kristin Hannah
Life was like that, full of quicksilver changes. Joy reappeared as unexpectedly as sunlight
~ Kristin Hannah