No matter how the sun shone, the sea held forth no more…

“It seemed the two held forth on parallel tracks, confident of meeting somewhere in infinity.”

— Denis Johnson

And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.

— Anonymous

The most peerless piece of earth, I think, that e' er the sun shone bright on.

— William Shakespeare

“And what's the best of all," he said, "you've been more comfortable alonger me, since I was under a dark cloud, than when the…

— Charles Dickens

“hooded against the afternoon sun that shone in his face.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“I'd wanted to stay on that porch with him until the sun shone bright on both of us, but I didn't. I stood up…

— Markus Zusak

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

— Samuel Beckett

“Like a shot from a movie, the morning sun shone brilliantly around him like a god—his dark hair glinted warmly in the light, and…

— Julie James

All around me darkness gathers, Fading is the sun that shone, We must speak of other matters, You can be me when I'm gone…

— Neil Gaiman

“But nature will smile though priests may frown, and next day the sun shone brightly, and on the next, and the next again.”

— Charles Dickens

“It was what should have been a bright summer day, but the smoke from the burning world filled the sky, through which the sun…

— Jack London

A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin…

— Sylvia Plath

“If the sun shone for itself, it would be blinded by its own light; if a river flowed for itself, it would be drowned…

— Matshona Dhliwayo

When I became the sun I shone life into the man's hearts.

— System Of A Down

“The sun shone on us, the water sparkled, the oar-blades dipped and we were gone. Gone to make history.”

— Bernard Cornwell