Spending time in the sun makes any day better. If you are looking for short sunlight quotes for Instagram you have come to the right place. We have also gathered all the best sunlight captions into one place to make it easy for you.
Our Favorite Short Sunlight Quotes
“Every moment, the sunlight is totally empty and totally full.” Rumi
“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” – Benjamin Franklin
“There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.” – Edward Hopper
“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
“My plea is that we stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight” – Gordon B. Hinckley
“The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.” – Jessamyn West
“In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.” – Katherine Mansfield
“I want to be like a sunflower; so that even on the darkest days I will stand tall and find the sunlight.”
“She was spirit and presence, as rare and brilliant as snowflakes in sunlight, and he could not bring himself to harm her.” – Shana Abe
“Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.” – Victor Hugo
“Does she realize she looks like a sunflower, ready to rain sunlight on all who look down upon her?” – Simone Elkeles
“The air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts of spring; the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full of red dust. The air one breathed was saturated with earthy smells, and the grass under foot had a reflection of the blue sky in it.” – Willa Cather
“Now come the whispers bearing bouquets of moonbeams and sunlight tremblings.” – Aberjhani
“Rejoice in the sunlight” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Wine is sunlight, held together by water.” – Galileo Galilei
“Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.” – Samuel P. Huntington
“Sunlight is the best disinfectant.” – William O. Douglas
“Sunlight is painting.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.” – B.K.S. Iyengar
“His laughter… sparkled like a splash of water in sunlight.” – Joseph Lelyveld
“Lovers alone wear sunlight.” – E. E. Cummings
“Sunlight will renew your pride.” – Joni Mitchell
“Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.” – Diane Ackerman
“The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart.” – P. G. Wodehouse
“The late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood.” – Stephen King
“I am sunlight slicing the dark.” – Rumi
“Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it.” – Muhammad Ali
“Wine is drinkable sunlight. It’s the most glorious summer’s day imaginable, captured in a bottle.” – Walter Moers
“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” – Steve Martin
“I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.” – Rita Rudner
“The terrible thing about sunlight is it shows the dirt.” – Brigid Berlin
“If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.” – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine, except that on a day without sunshine you can still get drunk.” – Lee Entrekin
“I’m convinced that there is nothing truly good. Hell, sunshine can wilt a flower.” – Kay Whitley
“All that is beautiful, and all that looks on beauty with eyes filled with fire, like a lover’s eyes: all of this is yours; you gave it to me, sunlight! all these stars are yours; you gave them to me, skies!” – Conrad Aiken
“Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes I need more grace than I thought.” – Rumi
“Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You’ve got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house.” – Billy Wilder
“Don’t be ashamed to weep; ’tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.” – Brian Jacques
“Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.” – Herbert Hoover
“No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren’t worse makes a failure of his or her life.” – Albert Camus
“So long as mists envelop you, be still. Be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists – as it surely will. Then act with courage.” – Chief White Eagle
“A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice – but as yet unstained.” – Lyman Abbott
“I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
“You can never take power from someone else any more than you can take sunlight.” – Frederick Lenz
“When we learn to say a deep, passionate yes to the things that really matter, then peace begins to settle onto our lives like golden sunlight sifting to a forest floor.” – Thomas Kinkade
“No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.” – Albert Schweitzer
“When sunlight falls on a crystal, lights of all colors of the rainbow appear; yet they have no substance that you can grasp. Likewise, all thoughts in their infinite variety are utterly without substance.” – Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
“But do not look down on even the most minute of things; for with the coming of daybreak, even the tiniest particles of dust in this world sing and dance in the sunlight.” – Wang Anyi
“It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.” – Jack Kornfield
“Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.” – Louis Kahn
“I really believe, when you come out of hiding, in whatever way you’re hiding, you get to go out into the sunlight.” – Christine Quinn
“No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“The gossamer web of life, spun on the loom of sunlight from the breath of an infant Earth, is nature’s crowning achievement on this planet.” – Preston Cloud
“Boredom is what you fight. Constant, ever-present boredom. So you learn to look forward to small things. Sunlight glimpsed through a cloud, an extra piece of pie or candy, good thread to sew your blouse, a ribbon to wear in your hair.” – Valerie Wilson Wesley
“There is in life only one moment and in eternity only one. It is so brief that it is represented by the fleeting of a luminous mote through the thin ray of sunlight – and it is visible but a fraction of a second. The moments that preceded it have been lived, are forgotten and are without value; the moments that have not been lived have no existence and will have no value except in the moment that each shall be lived. While you are asleep you are dead; and whether you stay dead an hour or a billion years the time to you is the same.” – Mark Twain
“You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If you like these, you might also want to check out our other lists of Sunny Day Quotes, Sunray Quotes, Short Sunshine Quotes, Sunburn Captions and Sun and Moon Quotes.
Sunlight Captions for Instagram
- Happiness is feeling sunlight on your face
- The sunlight paints us gold
- Shine like sunlight
- Stay sunlit
- These are the sunlight days
- Sunlight brings out the world’s beauty
- Some days you just have to create your own sunlight
- A kind of sunlight one remembers for a life time
- I am alive, and drunk on sunlight
- Getting my dose of sunlight
- I drink cup of sunlight every morning to brighten myself
- Illuminated by sunlight
- Life is a sunlight ride
- Live life in warm yellows
- Sunlight! The most precious gold
- Staying sun lit
- The sunlight paints us gold
And there you have it! Our list of the best quotes on sunlight. You can use them for inspiration or for your next Instagram post.
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About the Author
Laynni Locke
I am Laynni Locke, a Canadian writer, reader and traveller with a passion for sharing life’s moments on social media. Keeping friends and family in the loop of our lives though photos and videos has become an essential activity for most.
And it doesn’t matter if you are travelling, celebrating a special occasion or just appreciating day-to-day life, when you take that perfect photo you are going to need the perfect caption or quote before you share it. Which is why we started Routinely Shares, providing comprehensive lists of quotes and captions to cover every occasion, adventure or loved one.
With extensive experience as a travel writer, social media specialist and grant writer, I have made it my mission to curate the best and easiest to use lists for your next post.