Brightness Quotes

198 Brightness quotes by 160 unique authors

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a… — Jane Porter
The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured… — William Golding
At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness,… — Madeleine L'Engle
The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent half… — Henry James
...tell me the word that will win you, and I will speak it. I will speak the stars of heaven into a crown for your… — Stephen R. Lawhead
You have traveled too fast over false ground; Now your soul has come to take you back. Take refuge in your senses, open up To… — John O'Donohue
As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as… — Jonathan Edwards
The kiss was innocent--innocent enough--but it was also full of something not unlike what Virginia wants from London, from life; it was full of a… — Michael Cunningham
The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become. — Wallace Stevens
I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There was the shadow of sorrow, yes.… — Jacqueline Carey
...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness. — Thomas Hardy
Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly. — Gregory Maguire
My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around. — Georgia O'Keeffe
Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as mysterious as an… — Joseph Conrad
Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness… — Hermann Hesse
I've never really thought about it before, but it's a miracle how many kinds of light there are in the world, how many skies: the… — Lauren Oliver
He wanted to tell her that he was inspired and vigilant and recklessly alone, that his body contained his unsteady heart and something else, something… — Michael Cunningham
For no good reason, he thought of Xhex. Xhex was a thunderstorm made up of hues of black and iron gray, power leashed but no… — J R Ward
The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so… — William Shakespeare
She always did like tales of adventure-stories full of brightness and darkness. She could tell you the names of all King Arthur's knights, and she… — Cornelia Funke

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