SUN QUOTES II

quotations about the sun

Sun quote

Busy old fool, unruly Sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains call us?
Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?

JOHN DONNE

The Sun Rising

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The sun is the giver of life.

RAMSES II

attributed, Day's Collacon


Although the semicircle of the Moon is placed above the circle of the Sun and would appear to be superior, nevertheless we know that the Sun is ruler and King. We see that the Moon in her shape and her proximity rivals the Sun with her grandeur, which is apparent to ordinary men, yet the face, or a semi-sphere of the Moon, always reflects the light of the Sun.

JOHN DEE

Monas Hieroglyphica

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The sun is not God, though His noblest image.

ROBERT DODSLEY

The Economy of Human Life


I need to laugh and when the sun is out
I've got something I can laugh about
I feel good in a special way
I'm in love and it's a sunny day

BEATLES

"Good Day Sunshine"


If I had to have a religion, I should adore the sun, for it is the sun that fertilizes everything.

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

conversation related by Las Cases, The Mind of Napoleon: A Selection from His Written and Spoken Words

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Blest power of sunshine!--genial day,
What balm, what life is in thy ray!
To feel there is such real bliss,
That had the world no joy but this,
To sit in sunshine calm and sweet,--
It were a world too exquisite
For man to leave it for the gloom,
The deep, cold shadow, of the tomb.

THOMAS MOORE

Lalla Rookh


The sun does not follow its appointed course without having been so ordained.

STATIUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.

MARKUS ZUSAK

I Am the Messenger

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Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It's called the sun. Let's go get us a little.

NORA ROBERTS

The Hollow

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See the sun set in the hand of the man.

KATE BUSH

"The Dreaming"


How sickly grow,
How pale, the plants in those ill-fated vales
That, circled round with the gigantic heap
Of mountains, never felt, nor ever hope
To feel, the genial vigor of the sun!

JOHN ARMSTRONG

The Art of Preserving Health

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The sun is the most excellent and most glorious thing that we see in the world; it is the next cause, under God, of all the light that is in the air, and of all the life that any creature lives upon the earth.

BISHOP BEVERIDGE

attributed, Day's Collacon


Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass,
That I may see my shadow as I pass.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Richard III


Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.

S. E. HINTON

The Outsiders


Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Timon of Athens


The Sunset
This is the end
The night
The sea
The world we suggest is of a new wild west.
A sensuous evil world.
Strange and haunting, the path of the sun, you know?

JIM MORRISON

artistic manifesto, Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend

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Look over yonder what do you see
The sun is a-risin' most definitely
A new day is comin' people are changin'
Ain't it beautiful ...
Crystal blue persuasion

TOMMY JAMES AND THE SHANDELLS

"Crystal Blue Persuasion"


Don't let the sun go down on me
Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see
I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free
But losing everything is like the sun going down on me

BERNIE TAUPIN

"Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me"


The glorious sun is the center and soul of our system, the lamp that lights it, the fire that heats it, the magnet that guides and controls it, the fountain of color which gives its azure to the sky, its verdure to the fields, its rainbow hues to the gay world of flowers, and the purple light of love to the marble cheek of youth and beauty.

DAVID BREWSTER

More Worlds Than One