Brightness Quotes

198 Brightness quotes by 160 unique authors

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute. — Emma Donoghue
A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with… — Vladimir Nabokov
The first thing I did when I got inside was turn on the kitchen light. Then I moved to the table, putting my dad's iPod… — Sarah Dessen
Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary. — Diane Ackerman
[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend. — James Joyce
All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So… — Bertrand Russell
It is not so much light that falls over the world extended by your body its suffocating snow, as brightness, pouring itself out of you,… — Pablo Neruda
No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I don't do it… — Janice Galloway
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness. — James F. Cooper
I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated… — Geraldine Brooks
The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it. — Marcus Aurelius
It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way. — Markus Zusak
What does it cost to lose those weeks, that light, the very nights in the year preferred over all others? Can you evade the dying… — Joan Didion
Vanish. Pass into nothingness: the Keats line that frightened her. Fade as the blue nights fade, go as the brightness goes. Go back into the… — Joan Didion
The splendors of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not; Like stars to their appointed height they climb And death is… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Rain Soft rain, summer rain Whispers from bushes, whispers from trees. Oh, how lovely and full of blessing To dream and be satisfied. I was… — Hermann Hesse
Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration in the midst… — Leo Tolstoy
Blinded by the opaque veil of mortality, her eyes are always sealed, like a tomb She wants to know- wants to feel that fire, the… — Jessica Sorensen
Squeeze your eyes closed, as tight as you can, and think of all your favorite autumns, crisp and perfect, all bound up together like a… — Catherynne M. Valente
It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived… — C.S. Lewis
These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire—I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
How do you judge the brightness of a light when you’re the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts. — Neal Shusterman
Hello, Harry!” she said. “Er — my name’s Barny,” said Harry, flummoxed. “Oh, have you changed that too?” she asked brightly. “How did you know… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I see all this talent, all this...this energy and brightness and...potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can… — Jojo Moyes
When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he… — George Eliot

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