best quotations about
Sun |
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Quotations
 | Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 10 likes |
 | Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 5 likes |
 | The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. — Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989, Irish writer, Nobel 1969 (first phrase of “Murphy”) 4 likes |
 | If the sun enters the house, it also enters a little into your soul. — Le Corbusier, 1887-1965, Swiss-French architect 4 likes |
 | Nothing is new under the sun even when there is no sun. — Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright 3 likes |
| The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. — Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989, Irish writer, Nobel 1969 3 likes |
 | If you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it. — Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945, German dictator 3 likes |
 | Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. — Helen Keller, 1880-1968, American writer 1 likes |
 | The same sun that melts butter hardens clay. — Bill Vaughan, 1915-1977, American journalist 1 likes |
 | If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. — Tagore, 1861-1941, Indian poet, Nobel 1913 1 likes |
 | 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, 1812-1870, British writer 1 likes |
Personal Stories
 | Here, under a stronger sun, I have found true what Pissarro said, and what Gauguin wrote to me as well, the simplicity, the lack of color, the gravity of great sunlight effects. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 3 likes |
Latin Quotes
 | The sun shines on everyone Sol omnibus lucet. — Gaius Petronius, 1st cent. AD, Roman writer 53 likes |
 | Without the sun I fall silent. Sine sole sileo. — Medieval Sundial motto 34 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | The sun, as Heraclitus says, is new every day. Ο ήλιος, καθάπερ ο Ηράκλειτος φησι, νέος εφ’ ημέρη εστίν. — Heraclitus, 544-484 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 7 likes |
| Even the sun will not overstep its bounds. Ήλιος ουκ αν υπερβήσεται μέτρα. — Heraclitus, 544-484 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 4 likes |
 | The sun shines even on latrines but is not defiled. Ο ήλιος εις τους αποπάτους, αλλ’ ου μιαίνεται. — Diogenes, 410-323 BC, Ancient Greek Cynic philosopher 4 likes |
Special Quotes
| I count only sunny hours. — Sundial motto 3 likes |
