The sun is a powerful and ever-present symbol of life and vitality. It allows plants and trees to thrive, and brightens our days with its rays.
In literature and poetry, the sun is often used as a metaphor for rebirth and renewal. As the center of our solar system, the sun dictates the movements of our daily lives.
Beyond the sun's metaphysical significance, there's no denying that a sunny day instantly brightens our mood.
Studies have also found that healthy exposure to sunlight can boost the production of serotonin, the "happy hormone" that also makes you feel calmer and more focused and optimistic.
Getting a dose of Vitamin D from sunlight can boost your immune system and improve your overall wellbeing.
Next time the sun is shining, take a moment to walk around your neighborhood or a local park and simply enjoy the sensation of warm sunlight on your face.
Take some inspiration from the sun's permanent beams: even after the fiercest storms and darkest nights, the sun will always rise again the next morning.
From funny to thoughtful, these quotes from writers, poets, philosophers, and other iconic figures capture all the ways in which the sun impacts our lives.
Here are 35 quotes about the sun that are almost as powerful as the star itself.
Sun Quotes
- “At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun. For, in this most beautiful temple, who would place this lamp in another or better position than that from which it can light up the whole thing at the same time?” — Nicholas Copernicus
- “It is the artist’s business to create sunshine when the sun fails.” — Romain Rolland
- “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” — Alexander Graham Bell
- “Yet would we die as some have done: Beating a way for the rising sun.” — Arna Bontemps
- “The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” — Christopher McCandless
- “Henceforth I will look upon all things with love and I will be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit.” — Og Mandino
- “Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.” — Thomas Browne
- “Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love. But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything.” — José Martí
- “If you want a place in the sun, you’ve got to put up with a few blisters.” — Abigail Van Buren
- “But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you?” — Kahlil Gibran
- “Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.” — Dale Carnegie
- “I’ve found that there is always some beauty left — in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.” — Anne Frank
- “For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color.” — Ernest Hemingway
- “Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.” — Emily Dickinson
- “Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy.” — C.S. Lewis
- “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.” — Helen Keller
- “The glorious sun, / Stays in his course and plays the alchemist, / Turning with splendor of his precious eye / The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold.” — William Shakespeare
- “Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t going away.” — Elvis Presley
- “There’s no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day.” — Yann Martel
- “Know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.” — Alexandre Dumas
- “Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.” — Virginia Woolf
- “A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” — Max Müller
- “I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days.” — Henry David Thoreau
- “Of all our sunny world, I wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself.” — Edith Södergran
- “A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.” — Victor Hugo
- “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
- “There’s always the sunshine, only we must do our part, we must move into it.” — Clara Louise Burnham
- “Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who come in contact with it.” — James Thomas Fields
- “I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.” — Charlotte Brontë
- “We spend our life, it’s ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench” — Samuel Beckett
- “I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.” — Elbert Hubbard
- “See the gold sunshine patching, / And streaming and streaking across / The gray-green oaks; and catching, / By its soft brown beard, the moss.” — Philip James Bailey
- “Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.” — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Sophie Caldwell
Associate Lifestyle Reporter
