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How long can we live without it? What is the physical and emotional impact the big ball of fire has on you? Embrace the most powerful quotes about the Sun.

The Sun is more than just the center star of the Solar System. It is the source of energy for life on Earth and a fundamental variable to our well-being.

It has inspired and intrigued poets, philosophers, authors, artists, scientists, and everyone who has somehow been touched by its invisible warmth.

We sometimes take the Sun for granted, but it really is a gift of Nature.

Let's take a summery dive into the bright beams and heat that sunshine and sunlight provide every now and then.

Get inspired by the most beautiful and heart-touching quotes about the Sun and those golden rays of light:


Sunshine is my quest.
Winston Churchill

The Sun is not God, though His noblest image.
Robert Dodsley

The Sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
Henry Ward Beecher

Thou art the Sun of other days. They shine by giving back the rays.
John Keble

In the Sun, I feel as one.
Kurt Cobain

The Sun illuminates only the eyes of the man but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
Max Müller

I've found that there is always some beauty left - in Nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.
Anne Frank

The Sun is the giver of life.
Ramses II

I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days.
Henry David Thoreau

There's no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day.
Yann Martel

It's always sunny above the clouds. Always. Every day on earth - every day I have ever had - was secretly sunny, after all.
Caitlin Moran

A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
Victor Hugo

The glorious lamp of heaven, the Sun.
Robert Herrick

The Sun himself is weak when he first rises and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
Charles Dickens

The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
Arthur Rimbaud

Staring up at the sky on a bright, sunny day makes me dream and gives me ideas.
Marc Jacobs

As the Sun peaks over the mountain, it's a new day on our miraculous planet. Reason alone for celebration.
Oprah Winfrey

Whenever you want to see me, always look at the sunset; I will be there.
Grace Ogot

I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Sun. The bright Sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man-burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory.
Charles Dickens

Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
Louisa May Alcott

Learn from flowers - always angle towards the Sun.
Maureen Joyce Connolly

The Sun, center, and sire of light, the keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.
Philip James Bailey

The Sun never repents of the good he does, nor does he ever demand a recompense.
Benjamin Franklin

Even the Sun directs our gaze away from itself and to the life illumined by it.
Eberhard Arnold

The Sun shines upon good and bad alike.
Hans Christian Andersen

No sun outlasts its sunset, but it will rise again and bring the dawn.
Maya Angelou

How glorious a greeting the Sun gives the mountains!
John Muir

When the Sun has set, no candle can replace it.
George R. R. Martin

The rich sunset makes the most sterile landscape enchanting.
Eliza Cook

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
Rose Kennedy

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

That the sky is brighter than the earth means little unless the earth itself is appreciated and enjoyed. Its beauty loved gives the right to aspire to the radiance of the sunrise and sunset.
Helen Keller

Keep your face to the Sun, and you will never see the shadows.
Helen Keller

Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.
Walt Whitman

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

O, Sunshine! The most precious gold to be found on earth.
Roman Payne

For me, my Sun is, like all images, a functional object for seeing, for feeling, for dreaming, for understanding.
Micahel Buthe

Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.
Jack Ma

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
Morris West

If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.
Frank Lane

Don't let the shadows of yesterday spoil the sunshine of tomorrow. Live for today.
Nandina Morris

It's the artist's business to create sunshine when the Sun falls.
Romain Rolland

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The low sun stares through dust of gold.
Alexander Smith

There is nothing more beautiful than a rainbow, but it takes both rain and sunshine to make a rainbow.
Unknown Author

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The Sun is a daily reminder that we, too, can rise again from the darkness, that we, too, can shine our own light.
S. Ajna

Sunshine is the best medicine.
Unknown Author

What the world needs is a sunshine state of mind.
Unknown Author

The Sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal, or a fish, and we take it for granted.
Danny Boyle

Turn your face to the Sun, and the shadows fall behind you.
Unknown Author

When Sun shines, it not only brightens our day; it enlightens us, our soul, cleansing it of the gloominess that the night's darkness had brought in.
Tista Ray

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

One Sun warms and enlightens the world; two suns would destroy it.
Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi

That the Sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition and implies no more contradiction than the affirmation that it will rise.
David Hume

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
Annie Dillard

The Sun can be your greatest gloom, or your greatest comforter, depending on how you view its shine.
Anthony Liccione

Sunshine is Nature's hug and spirit breath to the earth.
Terri Guillemets

Sunlight is like the breath of life to the pomp of autumn.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
Rene Magritte

The day of the Sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
Wallace Stevens

Sunshine will guide your heart even in the darkest of days.
Anthony T. Hincks

Every morning, the rising Sun invites and inspires us to begin again.
Debasish Mridha

The face of the Sun is not without expression, but it tells us precious little of what is in its heart.
Armin J. Deutsch

When the Sun kisses the horizon, that's when you see the sky blush.
Anthony T. Hincks

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
Jeanne Moreau

I'd rather chase the Sun than wait for it.
Markus Zusak

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

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