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Quotes About Sunlight

At dawn, a ray of sunlight slanted from the steeple of St. Antoine's church, glanced off a window on Grant Street and finally alighted on a beer can lying in the middle of the pavement.
~ Unknown
It is so easy to be hopeful in the day time when you can see the things you wish on.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
The sunlight where I had lost them was still of Midas gold, but that which touched me where I stood had somehow turned to gilt.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
and they continued their lovemaking until the dawns early light started seeping through the shades and curtains and the heat of their love-making cooled in the warmth of the sun and they were suddenly, and completely, asleep.
~ Unknown
A twice-reflected sunlight is spreading over the wall opposite me: it is first picked up and reflected by the oval glass-in-lead window embedded in the wall, then reflected again by the zinc in slats of the awning next to it. It has no meaning; it's just a concatenation of circumstances, and yet it thrills me.
~ Hugo Claus
The vampire burned up?" Dylan asked, his eyes lit with humor. "You mean, he doesn't sparkle in the sunlight?
~ Colleen Gleason
My uncurtained window letting through the morning sunlight was my alarm to begin my work.
~ Unknown
All that is beautiful, and all that looks on beauty with eyes filled with fire, like a lover's eyes: all of this is yours; you gave it to me, sunlight! all these stars are yours; you gave them to me, skies!
~ Conrad Aiken
And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leaves interlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlight to divide us forever.
~ Conrad Aiken
The moon rose, and the moon set; And the stars rushed up and whirled and set; And again they swarmed, after a shaft of sunlight; And the dark blue dusk closed above him, like an ocean of regret.
~ Conrad Aiken
You are a sweet little thing. You are the morning sunlight in my dreary afternoon sky. It is not that you would do anything so unforgivable. It is just that there is a way of doing things that is right and a way that is wrong. You are young, and the world is old. When you are a few years older, I don't want you to have to look back on anything lacking in dignity, in which you cut a ridiculous figure.
~ Cornell Woolrich
No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.
~ D. H. Lawrence
This is a characteristic image from the Bright Young People's world: the thought of sorrowing in sunlight, good times gone, the myriad champagne corks bobbing away on a stream turned unexpectedly chill.
~ Unknown
For all the cynicism about the media, it is a noble profession. Most enter it with a strong conviction that sunlight is the best disinfectant. They champion the public interest by taking on vested interests.
~ Wes Streeting
Together, we travel the living river. We turn our faces to the sunlight and fly time and time again home to Kingdom Arcadia.
~ Unknown
The bereaved must be urged to "sit in a sunny room," preferably one with an open fire.
~ Joan Didion
Their love was something which coloured the air between them like sunlight.
~ Joanne Harris
At five in the morning the Loire is still and sumptuous with mist. The water is beautiful at that time of the day, cool and magically pale, the sandbanks rising like lost continents. The water smells of night, and here and there a spray of new sunlight makes mica shadows on the surface.
~ Joanne Harris
May your joys be as bright as the morning, your years of happiness as numerous as the stars in the heavens and your troubles but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love.
~ Unknown
Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it.
~ Jess Lair
Fake friends are like shadows, they follow you in the sun but leave you in the dark.
~ Victoria Hanley
I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.
~ Virginia Woolf
I have to absorb the new season like sunlight, letting it turn my winter skin pink and then brown. I must stuff myself with lore and statistics until my fingers ooze balm.
~ Unknown
So long as mists envelop you, be still. Be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists - as it surely will. Then act with courage.
~ Chief White Eagle