Top 240 Brightness Quotes & Sayings

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

The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.

The sun doesn't determine the brightness of the day, you do.

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

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

As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun's brightness, though immensely less in degree.

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

This dark brightness that falls from the stars.

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.

Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

Money refused loose its brightness.

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

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.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

Like the sun, we are attracted to people who shine with warmth and brightness.

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.

My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star.

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.

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

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

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.

The sun provides the moon with its brightness.

The body with its perfect mechanism loses power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness, when the soul departs from the body. This shows that the power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness belong to the soul.

You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.

You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness.

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

Those who are called to the table of the Lord must glow with the brightness.

Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union.

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.

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

I am a shining star, and I surround myself with people who encourage my brightness.

My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude', which is used for the brightness of a star.

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

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

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

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

How do you judge the brightness of a light when you’re the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.

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

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

This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured.

They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.

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.

I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes.

This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of promise, the dwindling of the days,the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the brightness. Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but they are also its warning.

The kiss was innocent--innocent enough--but it was also full of something not unlike what Virginia wants from London, from life; it was full of a love complex and ravenous, ancient, neither this nor that. It will serve as this afternoon's manifestation of the central mystery itself, the elusive brightness that shines from the edges of certain dreams; the brightness which, when we awaken, is already fading from our minds, and which we rise in the hope of finding, perhaps today, this new day in which anything might happen, anything at all.

I have brightness in my soul, which strains toward Heaven. I am like a bird!

Grieve not that I die young. Is it not well to pass away ere life hath lost its brightness?

In meditation have a complete focus on light, brightness, spiritual oneness, God, infinity, eternity. You know - silly things.

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

You must rise above The gloomy clouds Covering the mountaintop Otherwise, how will you Ever see the brightness?

Exterior shots showing blue skies add a levity and brightness to each show.

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.

Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.

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

As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.

Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary.

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

One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.