Brightness Quotations

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.

I don't know what good composition is.... Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a certain coming to restness and other times it has to do with funny mistakes. There's a kind of rightness and wrongness and sometimes I like rightness and sometimes I like wrongness.

I didn't know love felt like this, like turning into brightness.

Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list ...

Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.

The sun provides the moon with its brightness.

That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly.

Money refused loose its brightness.

Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself.

It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way.

As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.

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.

One can make a day of any size

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.

The studious silence of the library ... Tranquil brightness.

Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.

Everybody is going to have a point in their life when they can’t see any brightness at the end of the tunnel…but there always is…you just have to keep on fighting.

I see all this talent, all this...this energy and brightness and...potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life. This life that will take place almost entirely within a five mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.

Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness.

God would remain absolutely hidden if we were not illuminated by the brightness of Christ.

A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.

Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.

Whenever I do get to look out, it is glorious. Even the stars have a special brightness.

The eye that gazes upon the sun sees not the orb it looks upon, confounded by the excess of its brightness.

I am in the Pitte, but I have gone so deep that I can see the brightness of the Starres at Noon.

More than anything, one is struck by the light. Light everywhere. Brightness everywhere. Everywhere, the sun.

For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust

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.

In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all things come to see.

The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become.

Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a ray of brightness over everything; it is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude!

Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.

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?

Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.

When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.

But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.

Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.

He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty.

...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.