Sun Quotes

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away. View quote
Elvis Presley
There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into a sun. View quote
Pablo Picasso
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. View quote
Pablo Picasso
I looked at my hands, to see if I was the same person now that I was free. There was such a glory over everything the sun came like gold through the trees, and over de fields, and I felt like I was in heaven. View quote
Harriet Tubman
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. View quote
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman. View quote
Karl Kraus
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands. View quote
Havelock Ellis
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. View quote
Mark Twain
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. View quote
C. S. Lewis
Love that moves the sun and the other stars. (Dante Alighieri)
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. View quote
David Hume
Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. View quote
Chief Joseph
Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. View quote
William Shakespeare
A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round. View quote
Edmund Waller
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. View quote
Franz Grillparzer
The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening. View quote
Wallace Stevens
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. View quote
Washington Irving
The sun has not yet set for all time. View quote
Livy
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. (Joseph Addison)
My sun sets to raise again. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. View quote
Willa Cather
You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you. View quote
Ken Kesey
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. View quote
Robert Burton