Daylight Quotes - Page 4

• It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight.

  Patricia Briggs

  Ghost, Easier

  Patricia Briggs (2002). “Dragon Bones”, p.125, Penguin

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• Dreams? If only they had been! But I don't need dreams, Doctor, that's why I hardly have them—because I have this life instead. With me it all happens in broad daylight!

  Philip Roth

  Dream, Doctors, Needs

  Philip Roth (2005). “Novels, 1967-1972”

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• This dim coolness of my room was to the broad daylight of the street what the shadow is to the sunbeam, that is to say equally luminous, and presented to my imagination the entire panorama of summer, which my senses, if I had been out walking, could have tasted and enjoyed only piecemeal; and so it was quite in harmony with my state of repose which (thanks to the enlivening adventures related in my books) sustained, like a hand reposing motionless in a stream of running water, the shock and animation of a torrent of activity.

  Marcel Proust

  Summer, Running, Book

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.131, Modern Library

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• The sun got confused about daylight savings time. It rose twice. Everything had two shadows.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Confused, Humor

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• 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

  Hate, Sunshine, Scotland

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• He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Lying, Sleep, Insomnia

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely pre-ambulations, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasent life of it, in despite of the devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was - a woman.

  Washington Irving

  Lonely, Night, Men

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• Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians can worship freely! In broad daylight! Openly wearing the symbols of their religion... perhaps around their necks? And maybe -- dare I dream it? -- maybe one day there can be an openly Christian President. Or, perhaps, 43 of them. Consecutively.

  Jon Stewart

  Christian, Dream, War

  "Graham's Last Crusade - June 26, 2005". abcnews.go.com.

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• Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

  Francis Bacon

  Lying, Light, Triumph

  Francis Bacon (1852). “The essays or counsels civil and moral and wisdom of the Ancients by Francis (Bacon) Lord Verulam: Edited by B[asil] Montagu”, p.2

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• When you're going to play with dead things, do it during the daylight.

  Mira Grant

  Play

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• If I should labor through daylight and dark, Consecrate, valorous, serious, true, Then on the world I may blazon my mark; And what if I don't, and what if I do?

  Dorothy Parker

  Dark, What If, World

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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• I'm a big believer of daylight in the studio.

  Geddy Lee

  Bigs, Believer, Studios

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• Can you take human form in daylight? (Talon) Obviously so. Ever tried to answer a phone without opposable thumbs? (Vane)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Phones, Thumbs, Answers

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• For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Sleep, Depth, Needs

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1963). “NORTH TO THE ORIENT”

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• I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone's inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Islands, Age, Want

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• No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours.

  Jimmy Page

  Coffins, Zeppelins, Hours

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• Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.

  George Eliot

  Dream, Waking

  George Eliot (2016). “Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus”, p.31, 谷月社

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• By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.

  John Milton

  Dream, Truth, Distance

  John Milton (1851). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.210

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• Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.

  Edgar Degas

  Photography, Atmosphere, Want

  Edgar Degas, Jean Sutherland Boggs (1988). “Degas [exposition]”, p.535, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• 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

  Light, Air, Fire

  Maurice Blanchot (1981). “Folie Du Jour”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press

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• In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight too unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors.

  Albert Hofmann

  Eye, Color, Play

  "Will Self: Recreating Albert Hofmann's Basel Bike Ride On LSD" by Will Self, www.esquire.com. February 5, 2013.

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• Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.

  Chinua Achebe

  Jumping, Toads, Broads

  Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.143, Heinemann

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• A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.

  Kate Simon

  Summer, Twilight, Sky

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• Sachin Tendulkar is in my time the best player without doubt - daylight second, Brian Lara third.

  Shane Warne

  Player, Doubt, Cricket

  "Tendulkar is way ahead: Warne". www.thehindu.com. October 5, 2004.

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• Love is kind of like when you see a fog in the morning, when you wake up before the sun comes out. It's just a little while, and then it burns away... Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

  Charles Bukowski

  Love, Morning, Reality

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