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Quotes About Daylight

Without shelter, we stand in daylight.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
At sunrise it always seems like you've got a good crack at getting everything done, but at sunset you know that you didn't.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
At the first sign of winter the trees began to die. Leaves and aborted fruits fell in thick, brittle handfuls like the hair of a cancer patient. The abundance of sun and warmth, which we thought would never end, had led the trees on too, promising the impossible. But now the daylight grew thin and they showed no will to live. A dead sea of leaves drifted deep and undisturbed on the orchard floors. No children played there. I spent a lot of time considering the mystery of my family tree.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
How we make large circles in earth for ourselves… Around we go, back to the start and the start is there again: resumption, which was ever the curse of daylight. How long before we see daylight again?
~ Stephen King
Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight, never running from a real fight, she is the one named Sailor Moon!
~ Naoko Takeuchi
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity
~ Joseph Addison
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
~ Joseph Addison
Cato Trust me, Lucius, Our civil discords have produced such crimes, 5 Such monstrous crimes, I am surprised at nothing. —O Lucius! I am sick of this bad world! The day-light and the sun grow painful to me.
~ Joseph Addison
You love the daylight: do you think yourfather does not?
~ Euripides
Most of these guerrilla actions take place during daylight, but during the blinding full moon of October, when the night sky is bright, Indian raids take on a brand-new form of terror. This "Comanche Moon" period means attacks can come at any time. Wherever the Comanche raid
~ Bill O'Reilly
Most of these guerrilla actions take place during daylight, but during the blinding full moon of October, when the night sky is bright, Indian raids take on a brand-new form of terror. This "Comanche Moon" period means attacks can come at any time. Wherever the Comanche raid, whether by night or day, a trail of violence follows. Vengeance-seeking warriors mutilate and murder most of the men, gang-rape the women, and slaughter the infants, if only because babies
~ Bill O'Reilly
It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out.
~ Bill Watterson
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
~ Guy de Maupassant
He told me to set my watch back an hour, since the northern hill country will have no dealings with new-fangled daylight time schemes. As I did so it seemed to me that I was likewise turning the calendar back a century.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul.
~ Victor Hugo
I wanted to see something in full daylight; I was sated with the pleasure and comfort of the half light; I had the same desire for the daylight as for water and air. And if seeing was fire, I required the plenitude of fire, and if seeing would infect me with madness, I madly wanted that madness.
~ Maurice Blanchot
On the night of the 1st of September we observed for the first time signs of the natives being in the neighbourhood. Fires were seen on the low land near Cape Frederick Henry, and at daylight we saw the natives with our glasses.
~ William Bligh
The sky-like limpid eyes, The circular infant's face, The stiffness from spats to collar Never relaxing into grace; The heavy memories of Horeb, Sinai and the forty years, Showed only when the daylight fell Level across the face Of Brennbaum "The Impeccable".
~ Ezra Pound
Our nightmare had gone with daylight, everything would come out alright.
~ Harper Lee
The day is ours, and what the day has shown.
~ Helen Keller
Daylight had not brought a solution, but it had accorded indifference.
~ Michael McDowell
The sun comes every day. Save the string. I put it in lines across the room. I watched him creep his body though the grilled windows. When the sun touches the first string wham it is 10 o'clock. It is 2 o'clock when he touches the second. When the shadow of the first string is under the second string it is 4 o'clock. When it reaches the door it will soon be dark.
~ Michael Ondaatje
When I awoke it was daylight. The inside of my tent was coated in a curious flaky rime, which I realized after a moment was all of my nighttime snores, condensed and frozen and pasted to the fabric, as if into a scrapbook of respiratory memories.
~ Bill Bryson
Blameless as daylight I stood looking At
~ Sylvia Plath