Sunlight's a thing that needs a window
Before it enter a dark room.Windows don't happen.
-R. S. Thomas
Sunlight is struggling to enter your room,
but you keep the curtains tightly closed.
If you just remove them from the way of the sun,
its light will enter.
-Satprakashananda
The dewdrop knows the sun
Only within its tiny orb.
-Rabindranath Tagore
The secrets of the sun are yours, but you
Content yourself with motes trapped in its beams.
-Farid ud-Din Attar
I wept as I remembered how often
you and I had tired the sun down with talking
and sent him down the sky.
-Callimachus
There is no sun without shadow
and it is essential to know the night.
-Samuel Beckett
The shadow of the sun is largest
when its beams are lowest.
-Villefre
The sun when setting
makes shadows twice as large.
-Virgil
He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine,
must quit the coolness of the shade.
-Samuel Johnson
Please drop all those veils
from the sun of your face.
-Abu 'Ali Qalandar
Shadows cannot see themselves
in the light of the sun.
-Eva Perron
The sun is never able
to catch hold of darkness.
-Jnanadeva
When you stand with your back to the sun,
your shadow is before you;
but when you turn and face the sun,
then your shadow falls behind you.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
As sunshine, broken in the rill,
Though turn'd astray, is sunshine still.
-Thomas Moore
I see what is to come:
evening follows day. Still
I am the sun at noon.
-Deng Ming-Dao
All shadows are made nothing in the one
Unchanging light of Truth's eternal sun.
-Farid ud-din Attar
The self is an ever-shining sun
which may be in eclipse.
But once the shadows pass,
the sun is simply there in all its glory.
-Deepak Chopra
In the presence of the sun
which is so bright and luminous,how can we possibly remain
dark and lack-lustre?
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
And then will come a time
when all else has disappeared
and the sun alone shines.
-Vivekananda
