Radiant Quotes
196 Radiant quotes by 152 unique authors
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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
— Nikolai Gogol
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Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
— John Milton
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Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.
— Jerry Saltz
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The night you gave me my birthday party... you were a young Lieutenant and I was a fragrant phantom, wasn't I? And it was a…
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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To the glistening eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy the Valiant. To the great western woods, King Edmund the Just. To the radiant southern…
— C.S. Lewis
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[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.
— James Joyce
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In a way he made me think of a child doll, with briliant faintly red-brown glass eyes - a doll that had been found in…
— Anne Rice
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And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.
— Victor Hugo
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An event may be small and insignificant in its origin , and yet, when drawn close to one’s eye, it may open in its center…
— Bruno Schulz
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Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.
— Maya Angelou
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Ada girl, adored girl, [...] I'm a radiant void. I'm convalescing after a long and dreadful illness. You cried over my unseemly scar, but now…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant…
— Victor Hugo
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Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side; and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they…
— James Joyce
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The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such…
— Eduardo Galeano
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There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance back unwittingly at…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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O Son of Spirit! My first counsel is this: Possess a pure, kindly and radiant heart, that thine may be a sovereignty ancient, imperishable and…
— Bahá'u'lláh
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The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that…
— Victor Hugo
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Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the…
— James G. Frazer
Who Wrote These Radiant Quotes
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