165 Sun Quotes

Following is our list of sun quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about short sun.

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Short Sun Quotes

  • Carry your heart through this world like a life-giving sun — Hafez
  • Behind the clouds is the sun still shining. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • To appreciate the sun you gotta know what rain is. — J. Cole
  • When the sun has set, no candle can replace it. — George R. R. Martin
  • Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea. — Rumi
  • No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn. — Maya Angelou
  • Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think. — Hildegard of Bingen
  • No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done — Nas
  • When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there. — Mehmet Murat Ildan
  • My sun sets to rise again. — Robert Browning

Sun Image Quotes

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. - Proverbs quote

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. — Proverbs

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. - Christopher Columbus quote

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. — Christopher Columbus

The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made. - Louis Kahn quote

The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made. — Louis Kahn

Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun. - Evita Peron quote

Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun. — Evita Peron

Sun quote Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine wh
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.
Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. - Nicolaus Copernicus quote

Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. — Nicolaus Copernicus

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails. - Romain Rolland quote

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails. — Romain Rolland

Sun quote Accept both compliments and criticism. It takes both sun and rain for a flower to grow.
Accept both compliments and criticism. It takes both sun and rain for a flower to grow.
The 
Earth would die
If the sun stopped kissing her. - Hafez quote

The Earth would die If the sun stopped kissing her. — Hafez

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. - Elvis Presley quote

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. — Elvis Presley

Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth. - Sri Aurobindo quote

Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth. — Sri Aurobindo

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night. - Albert Camus quote

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night. — Albert Camus

Sun quote If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the st
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not. - Marty Robbins quote

Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not. — Marty Robbins

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! - John Muir quote

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! — John Muir

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. - David Viscott quote

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. — David Viscott

Sun quote You need to know what to do when the sun is not shining.
You need to know what to do when the sun is not shining.
Rain, rain, and sun! A rainbow in the sky! - Alfred Lord Tennyson quote

Rain, rain, and sun! A rainbow in the sky! — Alfred Lord Tennyson

The sun never sets on a Hells Angels' patch. - Sonny Barger quote

The sun never sets on a Hells Angels' patch. — Sonny Barger

Since I'm constantly in the sun, I use sunscreen daily. - Maria Sharapova quote

Since I'm constantly in the sun, I use sunscreen daily. — Maria Sharapova

Sun quote You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek
You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.
It's best not to stare at the sun during an eclipse. - Jeff Goldblum quote

It's best not to stare at the sun during an eclipse. — Jeff Goldblum

Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea. - Pythagoras quote

Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea. — Pythagoras

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones. - Keith Richards quote

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones. — Keith Richards

Sun quote I find my happiness where the sun shines.
I find my happiness where the sun shines.

Short Sun Quotes

If you can't see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you've never felt thunder and lightning you'll be impressed with fireworks. And if you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God you'll fall in love with a world of shadows and short-lived pleasures. — John Piper

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair. - Susan Polis Schutz

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair. — Susan Polis Schutz

Live your life to the fullest. - Shakira

Live your life to the fullest. — Shakira

Sun quote Be like the sun; shine your love on everyone.
Be like the sun; shine your love on everyone.

What is one man's life compared to the eternity of time and space? No more than a snowflake that glitters in the sun for a moment before melting into the flow of time. — Osamu Tezuka

It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside. — Maud Hart Lovelace

That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sun quote No sun outlasts its sunset but will rise again and bring the dawn.
No sun outlasts its sunset but will rise again and bring the dawn.

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Summer's lease hath all too short a date. — William Shakespeare

The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. — Natalie Babbitt

Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that. — Coolio

Winter Sun Quotes

Morning. Strawberry sky dusted with white winter powder sugar sun. And nobody to munch on it with — Francesca Lia Block

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But Lust's effect is tempest after sun; Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain, Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done; Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies. — William Shakespeare

In summer winter rain or sun, it's good to be on horseback. - Mike Oldfield

In summer winter rain or sun, it's good to be on horseback. — Mike Oldfield

Sun quote Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.

Digital Chocolate has 60% of its developers in Finland where the sun never sets in the summer and there is nothing to do outside in the winter, so we are very productive! — Trip Hawkins

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. — Charles Dickens

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. - Victor Hugo

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. — Victor Hugo

Sun quote Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.
Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.

I who all the Winter through, Cherished other loves than you And kept hands with hoary policy in marriage-bed and pew; Now I know the false and true, For the earnest sun looks through, And my old love comes to meet me in the dawning and the dew. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade. — Charles Dickens

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter. — Patricia Briggs

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing and mojito in your hand. — Bar Refaeli

Morning Sun Quotes

Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again. — Muhammad Ali

In the morning the sunflower blossoms due to the sun's rays. This morning I just wanted to remind you that my heart blossoms with love for you everyday I wake up and it is going to do that forever. — Sheila Carey

Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'you owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that! It lights up the whole sky. — Unknown Author

Sun quote Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through th
Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through the night.

When a woman didn't enjoy it, she leaves early in the morning. Those who had a nice time will wait until the sun comes out, requests breakfast and taxi money. — Julius Malema

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps. — John Lennon

Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness. — Mary Oliver

Love is kind of like when you see a fog in the morning, when you wake up before the sun comes out. It's just a little while, and then it burns away... Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality. — Charles Bukowski

In the twilight of the morning, all life silently waits for the sunrise. Sun must rise for the darkness to sink! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In the first weeks I had occasionally worn clothes in the morning before the sun began its ascent, but very soon I abandoned this habit, and the only bit of material I ever wore was the strip of sari cloth around my hips, which was so useful for making into a bag to collect coconuts on walks. — Lucy Irvine

If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out. — John Maynard Keynes

Moon And Sun Quotes

I am the fiery life of the essence of God; I am the flame above the beauty in the fields; I shine in the waters; I burn in the sun, the moon, and the stars. And with the airy wind, I quicken all things vitally by an unseen, all-sustaining life. — Hildegard of Bingen

Allah manages everything in the heavens and earth—the sun, the moon, the stars—with perfection, and yet we don’t trust Him to manage our lives! — Yasmin Mogahed

Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. — Confucius

The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul? — Oscar Wilde

Seeing the sun, the moon and the stars, I said to myself, 'Who could be the Master of these beautiful things?' I felt a great desire to see him, to know him and to pay him homage. — Josephine Bakhita

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. - Matsuo Basho

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. — Matsuo Basho

Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars. — E. E. cummings

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. — Mother Teresa

The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. — Matsuo Basho

Scrape the grey sky clean. Realize every grey cloud is a smoke screen to blind us from the truth, and the truth is whether we see them or not the sun and moon are still there, and always there is light. — Shane Koyczan

Rising Sun Quotes

In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country. — Dick Gregory

When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow! — Thabo Mbeki

Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun, and with him rise weeping. — William Shakespeare

Here's flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun And with him rises weeping: these are flowers Of middle summer, and I think they are given To men of middle age. — William Shakespeare

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. - Victor Hugo

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. — Victor Hugo

The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you can’t wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again. — Chris Gardner

The Dance - it is the rhythm of all that dies in order to live again; it is the eternal rising of the sun. — Isadora Duncan

Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter! spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor! — J. R. R. Tolkien

Look at me. I was a warrior on this land where the sun rises, now I come from where the sun sets. Whose voice was first surrounded on this land - the red people with bows and arrows. The Great Father says he is good and kind to us. I can't see it. — Red Cloud

[On Venice:] Every hour of the day is a miracle of light. In summer with daybreak the rising sun produces such a tender magic on the water that it nearly breaks one's heart. — Peggy Guggenheim

Sun Shines Quotes

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,but when the darkness sets in,their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Keep grindin' boy, your life can change in one year, And even when it's dark out, the sun is shining somewhere — J. Cole

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful. — Rumi

Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world. — Ramana Maharshi

I have commanded that my [titulary] abide like the mountains; when the sun shines its rays are bright upon the titulary of my majesty; my Horus is high upon the standard ... forever. — Hatshepsut

If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun. — Abdul Kalam

We should never become despondent because the weather is bad, nor should we turn triumphalist because the sun shines. — Thabo Mbeki

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome. — Wilma Rudolph

I believe in the sun, even when it rains. — Anne Frank

In every person there is a sun. Just let them shine. — Socrates

Sun And Moon Quotes

May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks. - J. R. R. Tolkien

May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks. — J. R. R. Tolkien

You're the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You're my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind of wonderful, that's what you are — Barry White

The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us. - Dennis Banks

The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us. — Dennis Banks

The first time I ever saw your face, I thought the sun rose in your eyes and the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave to the dark and empty sky, my love. — Ewan MacColl

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun. - John Lennon

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun. — John Lennon

The sun and moon shine on all without partiality. — Confucius

Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud. All men make faults. — William Shakespeare

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. - Buddha

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. — Buddha

What man of sense will agree with the statement that the first, second and third days, in which the evening and morning were named, were without sun, moon and stars? What man is found such an idiot as to suppose that God planted trees in Paradise, in Eden, Like a Husbandman? — Origen

Woman wants monogamy; Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun; Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but in her lord; Count to ten, and man is bored. With this the gist and sum of it, What earthly good can come of it? — Dorothy Parker

Sun Rise Quotes

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise. — William Blake

Demons run when a good man goes to war. Night will fall and drown the sun when a good man goes to war. Friendship dies and true love lies. Night will fall and the dark will rise when a good man goes to war. Demons run but count the cost; the battle's won but the child is lost. — Steven Moffat

Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies. — Alexander Pope

My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight? — Stephenie Meyer

For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth. — J. R. R. Tolkien

When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east," she said sadly. "When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When my womb quickens again, and I bear a living child. Then you will return, my sun-and-stars, and not before." -Daenerys Targaryen — George R. R. Martin

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it. — Ernest Hemingway

Everyone should smile. Life really isn’t that serious. We make it hard. The sun rises. The sun sets. We just tend to complicate the process. — Arian Foster

The sun rises not to be mediocre, but to shine; so should you. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The Little House was very happy as she sat on the hill and watched the countryside around her. She watched the sun rise in the morning and she watched the sun set in the evening. Day followed day, each one a little different from the one before . . . but the Little House stayed just the same. — Virginia Lee Burton

Earth And Sun Quotes

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance. — Isaac Newton

Just as a stone, a tree, a straw, grain, a mat, a cloth, a pot, and so on, when burned, are reduced to earth (from which they came), so the body and its sense organs, on being burned in the fire of Knowledge, become Knowledge and are absorbed in Brahman, like darkness in the light of the sun. — Adi Shankara

Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! — Sitting Bull

Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear. — Rumi

Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem. — Walt Whitman

In space there are countless constellations, suns and planets; we see only the suns because they give light; the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark. There are also numberless earths circling around their suns. — Giordano Bruno

The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight. — John Berger

The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again. — Rabindranath Tagore

God is infinite, so His universe must be too. Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds. — Giordano Bruno

In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun. — Galileo Galilei

Sun God Quotes

Believe in God like the sun up in the sky, see science can tell us how but it can't tell us why. I seen a baby cry then seconds later she laughed, the beauty of life the pain never lasts. — J. Cole

Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence. — Og Mandino

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say. — Geronimo

My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun? — Wernher Von Braun

Let your door stand open to receive Him, unlock your soul to Him, offer Him a welcome in your mind, and then you will see the riches of simplicity, the treasures of peace, the joy of grace. Throw wide the gate of your heart, stand before the sun of the everlasting light. — Ambrose

God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild. — John Muir

Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego. — Simone Weil

Zeus, the father of the Olympic Gods, turned mid-day into night, hiding the light of the dazzling Sun; and sore fear came upon men. — Archilochus

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. — C. S. Lewis

When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei [the voice of the people is the voice of God], as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science. — Charles Darwin

Sun Set Quotes

When the sun is setting, leave whatever you are doing and watch it. - Mehmet Murat Ildan

When the sun is setting, leave whatever you are doing and watch it. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The setting sun, and the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in rememberance more than long things past. — William Shakespeare

After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again, And touching all the darksome woods with light, Smiles on the fields until they laugh and sing, Then like a ruby from the horizon's ring, Drops down into the night. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon. — Khaled Hosseini

I think love is caramel. Sweet and fragant; always welcome. It is the gentle golden colour of a setting harvest sun; the warmth of a squeezed embrace; the easy melting of two souls into one and a taste that lingers even when everything else has melted away. Once tasted it is never forgotten. — Jenny Colgan

The last taste of sweets is sweetest last. - William Shakespeare

The last taste of sweets is sweetest last. — William Shakespeare

My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way. — Marquis De Sade

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. — Cyrano de Bergerac

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. — Jean De La Fontaine

We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, Our Flag will be recognized throughout the World as a symbol of Freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other. — George C. Marshall

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More Sun Quotes

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. — Galileo Galilei

A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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