quotations about the sun
I am alive, and drunk on sunlight.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
A Storm of Swords
When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.
SEAN O'CASEY
Red Roses for Me
The sun sets that night may come, and men may again rejoice over a new dawn.
JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON HERDER
Philosophy of History, Part II
The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.
RAY BRADBURY
Fahrenheit 451
The rich sunset makes the most sterile landscape enchanting.
ELIZA COOK
Eliza Cook's Journal
I'm not the only one
Staring at the sun
Afraid of what you'd find
If you take a look inside.
Not just deaf and dumb
I am staring at the sun
Not the only one
Who's happy to go blind.
U2
"Staring at the Sun"
The rising sun teaches us that time is; that we should regulate it, and perform our duties punctually; and that we should prepare for that glorious existence when time shall be no more.
C. J. WHITE
attributed, Day's Collacon
I 'gin to be aweary of the sun,
And wish the estate o' the world were now undone.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Macbeth
The sun, though it light a palace, does not disdain to fall with its golden woof on the straw-thatched cottage roof.
CALDERON
attributed, Day's Collacon
The sun just touched the morning;
The morning, happy thing,
Supposed that he had come to dwell,
And life would be all spring.
EMILY DICKINSON
"The Sun's Wooing", Poems: Second Series
The rising sun reminds us of the mind emerging from the dark night of ignorance, and with its clear rays of truth dispelling the clouds of prejudice and superstition.
RAY PALMER
attributed, Day's Collacon
He that has light within his own clear breast
May sit i' th' centre and enjoy bright day;
But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts
Benighted walks under the mid-day sun.
JOHN MILTON
Comus
The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.
FRANCIS BACON
Advancement of Learning
It may be objected that a man cannot subsist in the sun; but does it follow from thence, that God cannot or has not constituted a nature peculiar to that fiery region, and caused it to be as natural and necessary for it to suck in and breathe out flames of fire, as it is for us to do the like in air.
ETHAN ALLEN
Reason: The Only Oracle of Man
Limitless undying love which
Shines around me like a million suns,
It calls me on and on across the universe
THE BEATLES
"Across the Universe", Let It Be
Right now, the Sun is stirring up violent eruptions capable of wiping out the technology we are so dependent on, and new research has found that these blasts are even harder to predict than scientists first thought.
GEMMA CONROY
"The Sun Is 'Sneezing' Solar Storms Towards Earth", Science Alert, July 1, 2017
Being in the sun is like going to parties. Too much ages your skin. Too little can age inside you, like your bones.
BRUCE Y. LEE
"Health Tips That Helped 63-Year-Old Christie Brinkley Make SI's Swimsuit Issue", Forbes, February 12, 2017
The sun at the center of our Solar System is one of the big reasons why we're here today, but it can also be a bit of a nuisance from time to time. Coronal mass ejections -- when the sun spews a whole bunch of plasma and energy into space -- can seriously mess up human communication infrastructure if they happen to graze Earth. For years, researchers have attempted to forecast and predict CMEs in the hopes that warnings could help prevent damage to electronics and the power grid, and when doing so, they've modeled the huge solar blasts as bubbles moving through space. As it turns out, a CME is more like a sneeze.
MIKE WEHNER
"Scientist says the sun is sneezing on Earth", BGR, June 23, 2017
Turn your face towards the sun
Let the shadows fall behind you
Don't look back, just carry on
And the shadows will never find you
RIHANNA
"Towards the Sun"
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on
Ev'ryone come on
JOHN LENNON
"Instant Karma"