Sun Quotes, Sayings
These sun quotes and sayings capture the solar orb’s inspiring warmth and spiritual power — from the hopeful serenity of sunrise to the peaceful calm of sunset.
Let’s take a look at some of the best quotes about the sun and sunshine.
Top 10 best sun quotes
1.) Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.
Helen Keller
2.) “Just living isn’t enough,” said the butterfly, “one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.”
Hans Christian Anderson
3.) Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
4.) O, sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.
Roman Payne
5.) Be content with sunshine and you will never have a need of darkness.
Anthony T. Hincks
6.) The sun illuminates only the eyes of the man but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
7.) I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days.
Henry David Thoreau
8.) 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
9.) A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
Victor Hugo
10.) Learn from flowers — always angle towards the sun.
Maureen Joyce Connolly
1. Sunshine quotes for a sunny day
These sayings describe a warm sunny day, from spring’s green to the sun-kissed gardens of summer.
It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.
Maud Hart Lovelace
Every day, the moment you open your eyes and pull off your blankets, that’s what you hope for. The sunshine on your face, warm enough to make you heart sing.
Sarah Ockler
Laughter is magic that dispenses clouds and creates sunshine in the soul.
Richelle E. Goodrich
When you put a log on the fire, the light and heat you see is, in a literal sense, the decades of sunshine that tree basked in over its lifetime.
Peter Brannen
Don’t go beyond shadows in the dark, Seek the sunshine instead.
Senthil Kumar Mukkandi
The sun can be your greatest gloom, or your greatest comforter, depending on how you view its shine.
Anthony Liccione
In your darkest hour, give thanks, for in due time, the morning will come. And it will come with a ray of sunshine.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Sunlight sayings
The morning is full of sunlight and hope.
Kate Chopin
Sunlight is like the breath of life to the pomp of autumn.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
2. Beauty of the sun quotes
Thou art the sun of other days. They shine by giving back the rays.
John Keble
I’ve found that there is always some beauty left — in Nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.
Anne Frank
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
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
Sunrise
The sun himself is weak when he first rises and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
Charles Dickens
When the morning sun wakes up, the darkness in the valleys looks for a place to hide!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every morning, the rising sun invites and inspires us to begin again.
Debasish Mridha
Good morning sunshine
To say good morning, is a hope for a new sunshine in a cloudy winter.
Nabil Toussi
The morning sun is out and bright. Forcing night sneak away without a fight.
Richard L. Ratliff
The morning sun has a lesson to teach us — without judging, love everyone as he does.
Debasish Mridha
I hear you in the morning sun.
Adrienne Posey
Sunset
No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.
Maya Angelou
Whenever you want to see me, always look at the sunset; I will be there.
Grace Ogot
The rich sunset makes the most sterile landscape enchanting.
Eliza Cook
When the sun kisses the horizon, that’s when you see the sky blush.
Anthony T. Hincks
3. Sun quotes about love and life
About love
Sun lovers know the connection the sun has with love and romance.
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
William Shakespeare
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
Max Müller
Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.
Jonathan Haidt
Her smiles are like the morning sun that illuminates my world.
Debasish Mridha
While she was light and sunshine, he was nothing but clouds and darkness.
Victoria Michaels
Love grows in sunshine.
Anthony T. Hincks
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott
For a dark street, sunshine is most welcome; for a wounded soul, love is most welcome.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Just as love makes life beautiful and prevents sorrow, sunshine is the single source of light which gives us light during the day and makes the moon shine at night.
Abby Jonas
May the light of the morning sun shine upon you. May the deepest and sweetest love always find you.
Debasish Mridha
About life
Let there always be a bright spot in your heart for the people around you. They might need a bit of sunshine.
Ron Baratono
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
Thomas Mann
Bees make honey while the sun shines.
Anthony T. Hincks
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
A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
William Arthur Ward
We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
René Magritte
I love to see the sunshine on the wings of the dragonflies — there is magic in it.
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
Health and good humor are to the human body like sunshine to vegetation.
Jean B. Massillon
A ray of sunshine melts my frown and blows my blues away.
Jimmy Page
A sunny disposition is worth more than a fortune.
Andrew Carnegie
He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
Samuel Johnson
4. Spiritual sun quotes
The sun, center, and sire of light, the keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.
Philip James Bailey
For me, my sun is, like all images, a functional object for seeing, for feeling, for dreaming, for understanding.
Micahel Buthe
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
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
Annie Dillard
Deep sayings
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
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
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Sir Francis Bacon
Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
William Arthur Ward
When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.
George R. R. Martin
One sun warms and enlightens the world; two suns would destroy it.
Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. Inspirational sun quotes
As the sun peaks over the mountain, it’s a new day on our miraculous planet. Reason alone for celebration.
Oprah Winfrey
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.
Morris West
When the sun is shining, I can do anything. No mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
Wilma Rudolph
The sun is not God, though His noblest image.
Robert Dodsley
I think the sun is a flower.
That blooms for just one hour.
Ray Bradbury
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
Henry Ward Beecher
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
Motivational sayings
Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.
Jack Ma
Sunshine is my quest.
Winston Churchill
If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.
Frank Lane
If you dance like raindrops, there will always be sunshine.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun’s shining or not.
Marty Robbins
6. Positive quotes
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be the sunshine on a cloudy day.
Christina Casino
Don’t let the shadows of yesterday spoil the sunshine of tomorrow. Live for today.
Nandina Morris
The sun shines on everybody. You’ve got to keep believing.
Dontrelle Willis
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
Turn your face to the sun, and the shadows fall behind you.
Unknown
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin
Some old fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Sending you a day full of sunshine, a heaven filled with rainbows, and a pocket full of dreams. May the future ahead of you be as wonderful as you are.
Judith Wibberley
About happiness
We live within the clouds of our minds waiting for the sun to shine with happiness.
Anthony T. Hincks
To be happy you must be your own sunshine.
C.E. Jerningham
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
Henry Ward Beecher
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
Rose Kennedy
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as the happiness is the virtue of sunshine.
Ruth Fulton Benedict
Sunshine will guide your heart even in the darkest of days.
Anthony T. Hincks
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
Joseph Addison
7. Sun quotes for Instagram captions
Use these funny, cute, and short sun quotes to liven up your social media posts.
Funny sun quotes
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
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
Steve Martin
You are my sunshine. By that I mean I think you may have damaged me in ways I won’t know about for years to come.
Unknown
Cute sayings
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
Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.
Walt Whitman
I’ll be your sun, I’ll shine on you. I’ll make you happy; I’ll smile to you.
Nouf Alfadl
I’d rather chase the sun than wait for it.
Markus Zusak
Get off the track of doubt and gloom. Get on the sunshine track — there’s room.
Unknown
No matter how long is a rainy day, it cannot beat the sun forever.
Alok Jagawat
It’s the artist’s business to create sunshine when the sun falls.
Romain Rolland
Anyone’s life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy, contented spirit.
Lillie Langtry
Short sun quotes
In the sun, I feel as one.
Kurt Cobain
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun.
Robert Herrick
My sun sets to rise again.
Robert Browning
The sun is new each day.
Heraclitus
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll
A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
William M. Thackeray
The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David Thoreau
Even when it’s raining, the sunshine is still there.
Clare Josa
Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness.
Jimmie Davis
Friends are the sunshine of life.
John Hay
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
John Muir
8. Famous sun quotes
Sunshine is the best disinfectant.
Unknown
The sun is the giver of life.
Ramses II
The sun never repents of the good he does, nor does he ever demand a recompense.
Benjamin Franklin
I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
If I had to have a religion, I should adore the sun, for it is the sun that fertilizes everything.
Napoleon Bonaparte
From books and literature
Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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, Oliver Twist
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
From song lyrics
You are my sunshine
My only sunshine
You make me happy
When skies are gray
You’ll never know, dear
How much I love you
Please don’t take
My sunshine away.
Jimmie Davis, You Are My Sunshine
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
It’s not warm when she’s away
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
And she’s always gone too long
Anytime she goes away.
Bill Withers, Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone
I can see clearly now the rain is gone
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
It’s gonna be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day.
Jimmy Cliff, I Can See Clearly Now
Here comes the sun, and I say
It’s alright.
The Beatles, Here Comes the Sun
But losin’ everything
is like the sun goin’ down on me.
Elton John, Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me
Sweet the rains new fall, sunlit from Heaven
Like the first dewfall on the first grass.
Cat Stevens, Morning Has Broken
If I had a tale that I could tell you
I’d tell a tale sure to make you smile
If I had a wish that I could wish for you
I’d make a wish for sunshine all the while.
John Denver, Sunshine on My Shoulders
Can you feel it
Now that spring has come
And it’s time to live in the
Scattered sun.
The Doors, Waiting for the Sun
And may sunshine and happiness
Surround you when you’re far from home.
Rod Stewart, Forever Young
From poetry
The sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
Arthur Rimbaud
my mother is pure radiance.
she is the sun i can touch and kiss
and hold without getting burnt.
Sanober Khan
As the sun shines I will make hay
To keep failure at bay
For there remaineth a pay
For my honest toil each day.
Ogwo David Emenike
I dream of dreams—
Once dreamt,
now lost.
How sunshine steals
from autumn frost.
Michael Faudet
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
From the Bible
The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises.
Ecclesiastes 1:5
And he shall be like the light of the morning when the sun rises, A morning without clouds, Like the tender grass springing out of the earth, By clear shining after rain.
2 Samuel 23:4
The sun to rule by day, For His mercy endures forever.
Psalm 136:8
That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 1:9
He appointed the moon for seasons; The sun knows its going down.
Psalm 104:19
9. Sun proverbs and blessings
May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more.
Irish blessing
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Maori proverb
May the sunshine of comfort shine through the gloom of despair.
Irish blessing
Let the sun shine on me, for I care not for the moon.
Spanish proverb
May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more.
Irish blessing
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By Greg Johnson | Published 1/12/2023
