Top 100 Quotes About Brightness
#1. Optimism: That effervescent, blindingly- bright, perky, chipper, twittering quality you want to squash out of annoying people.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#2. Lovely phrases had lit candles in her mind, one after the other, till she felt intoxicated with the brightness.
Elizabeth Goudge
#3. Deliver me from every evil habit, every accretion of former sins, everything that dims the brightness of Thy grace in me, everything that prevents me taking delight in Thee.
Anonymous
#4. Be a lamp in brightness, and make the works of darkness cease, so that whenever your doctrine shines, no one may dare to heed the desires of darkness.
Ephrem The Syrian
#5. The eye that gazes upon the sun sees not the orb it looks upon, confounded by the excess of its brightness.
Pietro Metastasio
#6. Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness. The soul is in a manner all that is: the soul is the form of forms. Tranquillity sudden, vast, candescent: form of forms.
James Joyce
#7. Life. This morning the sun made me adore it. It had, behind the dripping pine trees, the oriental brightness, orange and crimson, of a living being, a rose and an apple, in the physical and ideal fusion of a true and daily paradise.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#8. He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
Samuel Johnson
#9. All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is true, what is the point?
Bertrand Russell
#10. All the labours of ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon-day brightness of human genius, are destined to extinciton in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins.
Bertrand Russell
#11. The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
Marcus Aurelius
#12. The sun's brightness painted our shadows on the ground.
Ishmael Beah
#13. These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire - I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#14. Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#15. Not for the first time, Peter thought about how much of our lives we spend sequestered inside small patches of electric brightness, blind to everything beyond the reach of those fragile bulbs.
Michel Faber
#16. When you rest in quietness and
your image of yourself fades, and
your image of the world fades, and
your ideas of others fade, what's left?
A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are
Adyashanti
#17. When Allyson smiles, Willem is reminded of a sunrise. A bit of light, then more of it, then a burst of brightness. A sunrise is something you can see all the time and still marvel at. Maybe that is why her smile feels so familiar. He has seen many sunrises
Gayle Forman
#18. The lamps were lit, and a good fire crackled in the great stone fireplace. There was a discreet chink of china, the brightness of silver teapot and muffin cover, the comforting smell mingled of steaming hot water, toast and a little sweet tobacco.
Susan Hill
#19. On one of these occasions, suddenly there hovered around the top of the rock a brightness of unequaled clearness and color, which, in increasingly smaller circles thickened, was the enchanting figure of the beautiful Lore.
Mark Twain
#20. Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration in the midst of a dark night.
Leo Tolstoy
#21. The sun provides the moon with its brightness.
Anaxagoras
#22. But, though persecuting malice raged, yet the Gospel shone with resplendent brightness; and, firm as an impregnable rock, withstood the attacks of its boisterous enemies with success.
John Foxe
#23. Looking into the brightness of God's glory blinds you to other things.
Andrew Wommack
#24. There are planes that are not light. There are planes that are shadowy. But that is not our interest in meditation. We want brightness, ecstasy, brilliance beyond comprehension.
Frederick Lenz
#25. No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I don't do it if I can help it. Brightness disagrees with me: it hurts my eyes, wastes electricity and encourages moths, all sorts of things. I sit in the dark for a number of reasons.
Janice Galloway
#26. If a dog barks at the sun, it does not dim the sun's brightness. (44)
Padma Venkatraman
#27. 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 of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness.
Hermann Hesse
#28. The sun never has an inferiority complex. It shines the same whether above or below.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
#29. "Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness.
Gautama Buddha
#30. This is all we get, I thought. Just quick moments of brightness that get taken away before you understand what you've been given. Then
Louisa Hall
#31. We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.
Dejan Stojanovic
#32. It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.
C.S. Lewis
#33. I like the night beach. The full moon. The moonlit sand, the waves silvery in the brightness. Nature is sexy, and that makes me think God is alive and has very good taste.
Beth Ann Bauman
#34. One passionate heart can brighten the world. From person to person the chain reaction burns through us - setting heart to heart ablaze, and lighting the way for us all!
Bryant McGill
#35. Love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds
E. E. Cummings
#36. God's glory is the created brightness that surrounds God's revelation of himself.
Wayne Grudem
#37. Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.
Charles Caleb Colton
#38. My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude', which is used for the brightness of a star.
Charles Francis Richter
#39. I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated it, the light in my own mind rekindled.
Geraldine Brooks
#40. The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.
Charles Dickens
#41. It is no secret that the moon has no light of her own, but is, as it were, a mirror, receiving brightness from the influence of the sun.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
#42. Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors.
Samuel Johnson
#43. Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!
Bryant McGill
#44. There is something so pure and frank and noble about Him that to doubt His sincerity would be like doubting the brightness of the sun.
Charles Edward Jefferson
#45. Don't be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don't rise or fall with them. What's so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can't help us rid ourselves of our suffering.
Ajahn Chah
#46. That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.
Horace
#47. The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.
Emma Donoghue
#48. There was a great brightness and, um ... Imagine what it would look like if you could see music, or thought.
Rachel Hartman
#49. I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear.
Nikola Tesla
#50. Like the morning sun, raise the brightness of your love to include everyone.
Debasish Mridha
#51. Your Business is to shine; therefore you must by all means prevent the shining of others, for their Brightness may make yours the less distinguished.
Benjamin Franklin
#52. For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?
Honore De Balzac
#53. Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union.
Laozi
#54. Bryn," I murmured, twisting around to see his sleeping face steeped in the brightness of the day. I stroked my fingers down his cheek and ran my hands through his silky mane of black hair. I must be dead, I mused, for certainly waking up in Bryn's arms is heaven.
D.T. Dyllin
#55. The blue jay threads a flight-path through stripes of brightness and stripes of mossy dark.
David Mitchell
#56. 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 kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
Jane Porter
#57. My first memory is of the brightness of light ... light all around. I was sitting among pillows on a quilt on the ground ... very large white pillows ...
Georgia O'Keeffe
#58. There is no brightness without darkness. There is no body without its shadow.
Jessica Khoury
#59. Turn and face the Light, and all you see is Brightness. Turn and face Shadow, and all of Life will appear before you.
Stan Sudan
#60. It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way.
Markus Zusak
#61. We should blunt our sharp points, and unravel the complications of things; we should attemper our brightness, and bring ourselves into agreement with the obscurity of others.
Lao-Tzu
#62. The joy you feel when you become a small life particle sun and share its brightness and warmth with those around you is indescribably great.
Ilchi Lee
#63. Shut, throwing my arm over my face. I hear the door shut behind her and by the time I adjust to the brightness, the light is gone again.
Colleen Hoover
#64. For both reasons, owing to the thermal motion and to the working together of various wavelengths, factors arise which, in a similar manner to the structural factor, exert some influence upon the brightness of the interference points but not upon their location.
Max Von Laue
#65. The snow light flared on brightness. Blue: intense as a midsummer sky, obtained from grinding precious lapis lazuli carried by camel caravan all the way from the mountains of Afghanistan.
Geraldine Brooks
#66. Do not let the darkness of others hide the brightness of your heart.
Debasish Mridha
#67. The exceeding brightness of this early sun
Makes me conceive how dark I have become.
Wallace Stevens
#68. Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and Eternal Knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses.
Sri Aurobindo
#69. The splendors of the firmament of time
May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not;
Like stars to their appointed height they climb
And death is a low mist which cannot blot
The brightness it may veil.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#70. I had stripped naked in front of men. Drunk. In morning's somber brightness I tried to remember why I had done it. Total exposure had seemed like the only way to be seen more clearly, heard, but now it seemed the opposite: a wild act that would define me.
Aspen Matis
#71. The song matches my malaise, and in spite of the heat and the brightness radiating from outside, I could be in the darkest depths of winter, with rain thundering against fragile glass panes.
Nenia Campbell
#72. Strength is overcome by weakness/Joy is overcome by Pain/The night is overcome by Brightness/and Love-it remains the same.
Tupac Shakur
#73. A day's brightness is determined by the light in our hearts.
A.D. Posey
#74. But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.
Euripides
#75. The true optimist not only expects the best to happen, but goes to work to make the best happen. The true optimist not only looks upon the bright side, but trains every force that is in him to produce more and more brightness in his life ... .
Christian D. Larson
#76. Too much brightness blinds the eyes. Too much sound deafens the ears. Too much flavour ruins the tongue. Chasing desires to excess turns your mind towards madness, and valuing precious things impairs good judgment.
Lao-Tzu
#77. He had been dazzled. Because of the dazzling brightness, he had had to kill [Seigen]. All who had encountered Seigen had had their hearts stolen by that brightness. That envy had turned to malice.
Takayuki Yamaguchi
#78. The city's all brightness
and shadow, deckle-edged, bluer than air-there's no help anywhere-you no longer know how to listen.
Ralph Angel
#79. My first memory is of light
the brightness of light
light all around.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#80. He was the northern star. I had no choice but to become enveloped in his brightness and let it coax me toward him. Wanting him was an unconscious impulse, like taking my next breath.
R.S. Grey
#81. And when darkness had left its mark on you, moments of brightness could be brief and short-lived.
Andrew Warren
#82. Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#83. It was a large store and i did not like to go in it because its brightness was cold, like sunlight on distant ice.
Chaim Potok
#84. Work in me more profound and abiding repentance;
Give me the fullness of godly grief, that trembles and fears, yet ever trust and loves, which is ever powerful, and ever confident;
Grant through the tears of repentance I may see more clearly the brightness and glories of the saving cross.
Arthur Bennett
#86. Blinded by the opaque veil of mortality, her eyes are always sealed, like a tomb She wants to know- wants to feel that fire, the brightness of the moon So she searches for light, only to realize its in her, like an ember equipped to ignite.
Jessica Sorensen
#87. Can you evade the dying of the brightness?
Or do you evade only its warning?
Where are you left if you miss the message the blue nights bring?
Joan Didion
#88. Bold and bright, a trilogy of happiness would continue for a summer's duration and into autumn. It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way.
Hard times were coming.
Like a parade.
Markus Zusak
#89. A beam of God's countenance is enough to fill the heart of a believer to overflowing. It is enough to light up the pale cheek of a dying saint with seraphic brightness, and make the heart of the lone widow sing for joy.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#90. The First Anchor in the moment of darkness
The First hand in the path of love and brightness
The Hand that held you strong to overcome fears
The Hand that wiped away all your painful tears
Aruna Nandigama
#91. I didn't know love felt like this, like turning into brightness.
Jandy Nelson
#92. What was wrong with me? Why could I not just flip the switch and see all the brightness ahead if only I chose the correct path? Or rather, why could I see the correct path but not choose to tread upon it?
Hanne Arts
#93. I am in the Pitte, but I have gone so deep that I can see the brightness of the Starres at Noon.
Peter Ackroyd
#94. 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. It would always be there. But that was the nature of life. The bright mirror and the dark, reflecting one another. And today there was so much brightness.
Jacqueline Carey
#95. The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye and disappears in its own brightness. Like a flame, whose meaning is light but whose centre is dark, it demands to be undefined.
Alice Oswald
#96. What I had not realized then, but now know only too well, is that sparks carry within them the wish to be relieved of the burden of brightness. And that is why I no longer write, and why the dark is is my freedom and my happiness.
Mark Strand
#97. One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of invoking a ghost. Maybe the 'Iliad,' crowded with names, is more than a poem. Maybe it's a dangerous piece of the brightness of both this world and the next.
Alice Oswald
#98. Nor is the darkness of colour a proof of the earth's baseness; for the brightness of the sun, which is visible to us, would not be perceived by anyone who might be in the sun.
Nicholas Of Cusa
#99. That made me sad. Sure, sirens are a pain in the ass, but how could he not see all the beauty that was out there
the starlight leaving stains of brightness in the water, the salt-kissed wind? I wanted to find a way to share it with him, show him there was more in the world than blood and shadow.
Cassandra Rose Clarke
#100. Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.
Tryon Edwards
