Radiant Quotes

196 Radiant quotes by 152 unique authors

[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life. — James Joyce
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
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
It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she. — Victor Hugo
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
Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides. — Maya Angelou
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
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
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
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
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
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
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… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
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
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
In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun. — Suzanne Collins
I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.' Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite… — Emma Goldman
She was the most beautiful thing you ever saw. She was radiant. And she was wearing this necklace... When you see the necklace in the… — Sophie Kinsella
I had always imagined myself hitching up on to my elbows on the delivery table after it was all over - dead white, of course,… — Sylvia Plath
So I say, if you are burning, burn. If you can stand it, the shame will burn away and leave you shining, radiant, and righteously… — Elizabeth Cunningham
The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear… — Charles Dickens
Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn't even know your name scrubbed your… — Toni Morrison
She bounded before me, and returned to my side, and was off again like a young greyhound; and, at first, I found plenty of entertaiment… — Emily Bronte
Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who… — Albert Camus

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