#sun

In the trenches between the burial mounds hundreds of dead soldiers sat side by side with their heads against the torn earth, as if they had fallen asleep together in a deep dream of war. ↗

— J.G. Ballard

#dreams

It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine. ↗

— Angela Carter

#contract #democratic #ever #everyone #had

Neruda had his first dream, First meeting with the Moon and the Sun In sunny La Mancha, hiding in his heart, Where he learned how to sing like a nightingale. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#heart #la-mancha #moon #neruda #nightingale

In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God. ↗

— Maud Hart Lovelace

#faith #god #sunset #thought #faith

The love of God is like himself – equal, constant, not capable of augmentation or diminution; our love is like ourselves – unequal, increasing, waning, growing, declining. His, like the sun, always the same in its light, though a cloud may sometimes interpose; ours, as the moon, has its enlargements and straightenings. ↗

— John Owen

#love #owen #sun #equality

Absolute equals nothingness. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #equals #literature #literature-quotes #nothingness

Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#days #dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #philosophy

Even trained for years as we all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine. ↗

— Lois Lowry

#sunshine #wisdom #experience

Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#experience #god #sunlight #woods #experience

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

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#nature #sunshine #nature