Broad Daylight Quotes

#1. I was drowning in broad daylight and no one could tell.

Sarah Dessen

#2. No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.

W.H. Davies

#3. I can read the two of you as easily as I can a watermelon patch in broad daylight.

Haruki Murakami

#4. Evil is never in a rush. It creeps up slowly. It doesn't hide, but confronts you in broad daylight. It gives decades of warnings, even centuries at times. Time is never the problem when you battle Evil. The problem is the will to fight it.

Amish Tripathi

#5. Am I afraid of ghosts? My life experience has taught me to be much more afraid of what a human is capable of in broad daylight than what a ghost is capable of at night.

Steve Maraboli

#6. Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.

Chinua Achebe

#7. Maybe he fought it off and forgot about it, and he wasn't afraid, because he knew he'd never carry it out. Right, but now, imagine that suddenly, in broad daylight, among other people, he meets IT embodied, chained to him, indestructible. What then? What do you have then?

Stanislaw Lem

#8. Even in broad daylight, he was so sallow, he looked like a black-and-white picture pasted into a Kodachrome world. At night, he was barely even visible.

C.D. Reiss

#9. He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, I am looking for a human .

Diogenes

#10. No man is quite so much a hero in the dark as in broad daylight, in solitude as in society, in the gloom of the churchyard as in the blaze of the drawing-room. The season and the place may be such as to oppress the stoutest heart with a mysterious awe, which, if not fear, is near akin to it.

William H. Prescott

#11. Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

Henry David Thoreau

#12. Let them look up in the sky then ... ! if they must be so blind, that cannot see the truth in broad daylight, but must have the whole world in darkness to see the conceit of the stars ...

William Gaddis

#13. It felt beyond strange to be riding topless in broad daylight, but the exhibitionist inside her - inside every submissive - was deeply aroused.

Claire Thompson

#14. Dreams? If only they had been! But I don't need dreams, Doctor, that's why I hardly have them - because I have this life instead. With me it all happens in broad daylight!

Philip Roth

#15. There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

Vaclav Havel

#16. Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#17. Look at you. Bloody look at you. You're stunning. And this is how you dress when you're all alone in the middle of the night? And in potato sacks when you're out in broad daylight? He smiles his haywire smile.

Jandy Nelson

#18. The murder of John Kennedy in broad daylight in the streets of an American city remains, to me, an unsolved crime.

Charlie Pierce

#19. (Broad daylight; breakfast; return of cheerfulness and bons sens; Plato blushes for shame; all free spirits run riot.)

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. But what is the core of the political? Men killing men on the largest scale in broad daylight and with the greatest serenity.

Leo Strauss

#21. Our demons lose their power when we pull them out of the depths where they hide and look them in the face in broad daylight.

Isabel Allende

#22. Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.

Guy De Maupassant

#23. We do not have to dig deep into history to understand the reality. The examples of Saddam Hussain, who was executed after a sham trial and the case of Muammar Gaddafi, who killed after surrendering in broad daylight, have given enough factual reality to understand the painful truth.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#24. We'll walk together holding hands, and kiss in broad daylight, and love each other as much as we want to, and no one will ever try to keep up apart.

Lauren Oliver

#25. I looked up at the sky. A mother wants to make friends with her daughter. The daughter wants a mother more than a friend. Ships passing in broad daylight. Mother has a boyfriend. A homeless, one-armed poet. Father also has a boyfriend. A gay Boy Friday. What does the daughter have?

Haruki Murakami

#26. We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

John Lennon

#27. There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Washington Irving

#28. Peter Mandelson is the only man I know who can skulk in broad daylight.

Simon Hoggart

#29. Ships passing in broad daylight.

Haruki Murakami

#30. Those who wish to sit, shut their eyes,
and meditate to know if the world's true or lies,
may do so. It's their choice. But I meanwhile
with hungry eyes that can't be satisfied
shall take a look at the world in broad daylight.

Rabindranath Tagore

#31. I laugh because me been dancing with shadow in the dawn and in the night. Even in broad, bright daylight we searching for the dark.

Marlon James