Sunshine Sayings and Quotes

The sun is such a warm and constant presence in life that it has become much more than just a ball of fire in the sky for us. It is a symbol for friendship, for happiness, for hope, and for the end of the storms in our lives. Enjoy this collection of inspiring, insightful, and wise sayings about sunshine in all of its forms.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. Joseph Addison
A good laugh is sunshine in the house. William Makepeace Thackeray
Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk. William Arthur Ward
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and a man cannot live without love. George P. Upton
Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. William Shakespeare
Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes. Euripides
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. Thomas Jefferson
A compliment is verbal sunshine. Robert Orben
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. David Viscott
Just remember, after they foreclose on your mortgage, you get a lot more sunshine in your life. Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. Roald Dahl
If you sit down at set of sun and count the acts that you have done, and, counting, find one self-denying deed, one word that eased the heart of him who heard–one glance most kind, that fell like sunshine where it went–then you may count that day well spent. George Eliot
As you cannot have a sweet and wholesome abode unless you admit the air and sunshine freely into your rooms, so a strong body and a bright, happy, or serene countenance can only result from the free admittance into the mind of thoughts of joy and goodwill and serenity. James Allen
Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good. Lucy Larcom
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. Luther Burbank
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. Robert Green Ingersoll
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity. Walt Whitman
His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind. Anne Bronte
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. Caroline Norton
Rays of sun - light of short wavelength and high frequency, hence, it is known as the 'sunshine vitamin.' Frank Murray
Women have a higher risk of developing ovarian cancer in northern latitudes than the do in southern latitudes, because a lesser availability of sunshine and vitamin D. Frank Murray
Can you see the sun? / Have you ever felt the sunshine? / Is the sunshine warm? / Does the wind blow / when the sun shines? / Do you like to be out when the sun shines? / What is sunshine good for? John Gilbert Thompson
How warm the sunshine was ! / The man felt very warm. / He was glad when he came to a tree. John Gilbert Thompson
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
We want to feel the sunshine, and we want to smell the flowers. Colin Fisher
But come ye back when summer's in the meadow / And when the valley's hushed and white with snow / Its' i'll be here in sunshine or in shadow / Oh Danny boy, oh Danny Boy, I'll miss you so! Haruki Murakami
Monument Mountain, in the early sunshine; its base enveloped in mist, part of which are floating in the sky, so that the great hill looks really as if it were founded on a cloud. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Eight more chickens hatched. Ascended a mountain with my wife; a beautiful, mellow, autumnal sunshine. Nathaniel Hawthorne
In the afternoons, nowadays, this valley in which I dwell seems like a vast basin filled with golden sunshine as with wine. Nathaniel Hawthorne