Brightness Quotes

198 Brightness quotes by 160 unique authors

The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises from… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could… — Leo Tolstoy
Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the… — Jonathan Edwards
Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd's can only… — Charlotte Bronte
...Sometimes I dream that everything in the world is here, in my room, in a great closet, named and orderly, and I am here too,… — Mary Oliver
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

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