Rene Magritte
Surrealist Artist
"We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world."
Daylight quotes
Daylight
73 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Diogenes
Philosopher
"He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human.""
Stephen King
Author
"Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk."
John Wayne
Actor, Director
"Slap some bacon on a biscuit and let's go! We're burnin' daylight!"
Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live."
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"I'm a big believer of daylight in the studio."
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"Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again."
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"Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight."
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"He was bolder in the daylight-most men are."
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"Truth is a naked and open daylight"
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"Love prefers twilight to daylight."
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"Everybody is two beings: one lives and flourishes in the daylight and stands guard. The other being walks and howls at night."
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"Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"We're burnin' daylight!"
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"Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight."
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"Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life."
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"Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been."
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"Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror."
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"Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself."
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"Daylight is nobody's friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp."
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"You probably couldn't have found much daylight between the NRA and the Disney company. They probably would've had had identical demographics for the people who really loved those companies."
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"My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser"
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"The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hour of daylight in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages."
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"Daylight, full of small dancing particles. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear?"
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