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Quotes About Daylight

Perhaps because it was nighttime, when things that might have felt odd in daylight instead seemed just right.
~ Sarah Dessen
Everything seemed bright and different after so long in the darkness. Even though most of the businesses were closed, there was one neon sign lit in the window of a narrow storefront. COFFEE AND PIE, it read. Two bikes were parked just outside. On the boardwalk, in the thrown light of the neon sign, his head dipped down as I pulled my fingers through his hair. The night still in progress, with daylight hours away.
~ Sarah Dessen
The daylight too is strange, even outside, in the yard, as if something has happened to it, as if something has been done to it, before it is allowed to reach us. It has an acid, lemony cast, and comes in two intensities: either it is not enough to see by or it sears the sight.
~ John Banville
The daylight lingered past its time In rose-leaf radiance on the watching peaks, So it seemed Night listened in the glens And Noon upon the mountains.
~ Edwin Arnold
And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.
~ Arne Jacobsen
For too long has everything divine been utilized, And all the heavenly powers, the kindly ones, thrown away, Consumed for kicks by thankless, Cunning men, who, when the exalted One works in their fields, think they Know the daylight and the Thunderer, And their telescope might see them all and Count and name all the stars in heaven; But the Father covers our eyes with holy Night so we might remain. He loves no wildness! Our expanding power will never force heaven.
~ Friedrich Hölderlin
Broad daylight; breakfast; return of cheerfulness and bons sens; Plato blushes for shame; all free spirits run riot.)
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm from Sweden, where it's winter, like, half the year. And it's dark - we barely have any daylight.
~ Snoh Aalegra
Daylight, full of small dancing particles. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear?
~ Rumi
In the daylight we know what's gone is gone, but at night it's different. Nothing gets finished, not dying, not mourning;
~ Margaret Atwood
I prefer to be upright and contained -- an urn in daylight.
~ Margaret Atwood
She is the witch you burned by daylight and crept from your home to consult & bribe at night. The love that tortured you you blamed on her.
~ Margaret Atwood
Day is just a collection of hours.
~ Serj Tankian
Don't forget it's daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed.
~ David Letterman
I've got nothing against daylight. I don't live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
~ Keith Richards
Everything between sunset and darkness. There is so much room for imagination. You see things in a different way from the glare of daylight. There's a richer beauty, and an awareness of how fleeting it all is, how ephemeral.
~ Anne Perry
Peter sometimes claimed - jokingly, she assumed - that the whole country should keep its clocks set to the same hour, even though that meant that some states would have to conduct their business in the dark.
~ Anne Tyler
Can you take human form in daylight? (Talon) Obviously so. Ever tried to answer a phone without opposable thumbs? (Vane)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You know I can't go out there. There's daylight outside. (Ravyn) Well, that's what happens when the big yellow ball comes up over the mountains. Amazing isn't it? (Susan)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
He walks in daylight. But, like a demon, he's weaker then. He seems to have the powers of a god, but no followers. What would you call him? (Xypher) I wouldn't call him anything that didn't make him deliriously happy. (Simone)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You know, you say 'not exactly' a lot. You're not exactly a vampire. You're not exactly from Scotland, and you're allergic to daylight. What else? (Sunshine) I hate bran muffins and grass. (Talon)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
We have a Daimon walk into the bar in broad daylight, and now a demon sliming Dev. I don´t know about you, but that doesn´t seem coincidental to me." "I agree. Snot funny.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
If Apollo caught sight of him outside or near a window during the light of day, Talon would be nothing more than a strip of fried bacon on the sidewalk. Extra-crispy Celt didn't appeal to him in the least.' (Talon)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
All the windows of my heart I open to the day.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier