Sunlight Quotes - Page 12

• Oh, the morrow of pain and dole Is naught while the sunlight lingers.

  Kenneth Rand

  Pain, Morrow

  Kenneth Rand (1915). “The Dreamer, and Other Poems”

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• I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind

  Tadao Ando

  Believe, Wind, Too Much

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• Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest means of transportation to reach dimensions above or beyond the traps set by the so-called realists. It is a way to learn levitation and travel in liberated continents, to travel by moonlight as well as sunlight.

  Anais Nin

  Mean, Levitation, Way

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• The clearest window that ever was fashioned if it is barred by spiders' webs, and hung over with carcasses of insects, so that the sunlight has forgotten to find its way through, of what use can it be? Now, the Church is God's window; and if it is so obscured by errors that its light is darkness, how great is that darkness!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Errors, Light, Darkness

  Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1858). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.32

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• The process could be likened to relaxing on a riverbank and watching a fish leap out of the water, sparkle for a moment in the sunlight, then dive back in a graceful arc. There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.

  Bill Vaughan

  Sight, Water, Meditation

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• There's nothing like fishing to pass the time and to incline toward a sort of magnificent stupidity in which nothing matters but tackle, bait, sunlight and the strike.

  Faith Baldwin

  Fishing, Stupidity, Bait

  Faith Baldwin (1934). “Honor bound”

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• This sunlight shames November where he grieves
  In dead red leaves, and will not let him shun
  The day, though bough with bough be overrun.
  But with a blessing every glade receives
  High salutation.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Autumn, Blessing, Grieving

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Sonnet LXIX: Autumn Idleness”

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• What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Years, Fool

  Twitter post from Nov 04, 2013

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• The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.

  Frederick Douglass

  Healing, July, Justice

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

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• I am alive. Up here with the song of the engine and the air whispering on my face as the sunlight and shadows play upon the banking, wheeling wings, I am completely, vibrantly alive. With the stick in my right hand, the throttle in my left, and the rudder beneath my feet, I can savor that essence from which life is made.

  Stephen Coonts

  Song, Hands, Essence

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• No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness -- or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Dream, Time, Cheer

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• Doesn't sunlight kill them? Doesn't it turn them to dust, or make them burst into flames or something?" "Nope. Vampires tan, just like you and me. Well, just like you. I tend to bleach.

  Derek Landy

  Dust, Flames, Vampire

  Derek Landy (2013). “Skulduggery Pleasant:”, p.60, HarperCollins UK

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• Okay, that really shouldn't have happened. And we’re not going to talk about that, right? Ever?” “Right,” she said. She felt like there was light dripping from her fingertips. Spilling out of her toes. She felt full of light, in fact, warm buttery sunlight. “Never happened.” He opened his mouth, then closed it, and closed his eyes. “Claire—” “I know.” “Lock the door,” he said.

  Rachel Caine

  Eye, Light, Doors

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.283, Penguin

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• This is wine," Ghoolion said solemnly. "Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle. Wine can be a melody in a cut-glass goblet, but it can also be a cacophony in a dirty tumbler, or a rainy autumn night, or a funeral march that scorches your tongue.

  Walter Moers

  Summer, Dirty, Wine

  Walter Moers (2009). “The Alchemaster's Apprentice: A Novel”, p.104, The Overlook Press

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• I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me. A nearby field, a ray of sunlight, a little bit of calm along with a bit of bread, not to feel oppressed by the knowledge that I exist, not to demand anything from others, and not to have others demand anything from me - this was denied me, like the spare change we might deny a beggar not because we're mean-hearted but because we don't feel like unbuttoning our coat.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Mean, Rays, Demand

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.321, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You were the leaves, basking in the sunlight. I was the root, growing in the darkness ~Danzo

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Roots, Darkness, Growing

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• ...sunlight is (life and day are)only loaned:whereas night is given(night and death and the rain are given;and given is how beautifully snow)

  e. e. cummings

  Rain, Night, Snow

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• But there is a beauty every girl has—a gift from God, as pure as the sunlight, and as sacred as life. It is a beauty that all men love, a virtue that wins all men's souls. That beauty is chastity. Chastity without skin beauty may enkindle the soul; skin beauty without chastity can kindle only the eye. Chastity enshrined in the mold of true womanhood will hold true love eternally.

  David O. McKay

  Girl, Eye, Winning

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• Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair-

  T. S. Eliot

  Hair, Pavement

  "La Figlia Che Piange" l. 3 (1917)

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• 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

  Morning, Birds Chirping, Tree

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• Como se reparten el sol en el naranjo las naranjas? How do the oranges divide up sunlight in the orange tree?

  Pablo Neruda

  Orange Trees, Divides, Orange

  Pablo Neruda (2001). “Libro de Las Preguntas”, p.13, Copper Canyon Press

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• Round and round the questions flew, until finally I found myself standing at the open door of a bookshop. It’s natural in times of great perplexity, I think, to seek out the familiar, and the high shelves and long rows of neatly lined-up spines were immensely reassuring. Amid the smell of ink and binding, the dusty motes in beams of strained sunlight, the embrace of warm, tranquil air, I felt that I could breathe more easily.

  Kate Morton

  Thinking, Smell, Air

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Faith, Rays, Needs

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I'm looking out of my third eye and everything that I'm supposed to be doing. It's amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. "Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama's got the magic of Clorox 2."

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Success, Yoga, Eye

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• As you pass from sunlight into darkness and back again every hour and a half, you become startlingly aware how artificial are thousands of boundaries we've created to separate and define. And for the first time in your life you feel in your gut the precious unity of the Earth and all the living things it supports.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Moon, Space, Support

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