“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“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.”
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“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879)
1842
Source: Notebooks, The American Notebooks (1835 - 1853)
“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.”
Morris West (1916–1999) Australian writer
Source: The Clowns of God (1981), Ch. II (ellipses in original) <!-- p. 35 -->
This statement begins with a quotation from Horace, Odes, Book I, Ode ix, line 13.
Context: "Forbear to ask what tomorrow may bring" … If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
“I have always had the joy of life, uncrushably, a sort of inner sunshine that cannot be put out.”
Marie of Edinburgh, Queen of Romania (1875–1938) last Queen consort of Romania as the wife of King Ferdinand I
'Queen's Counsel, The Joy of Life', The Birmingham News 1926.
“As sunshine broken in the rill,
Though turned astray, is sunshine still.”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
Lalla Rookh http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/lallarookh/index.html (1817), Part V-VIII: The Fire-Worshippers
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
This appears as an anonymous proverb in Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine Vol. XIII, (January - June 1883) edited by T. De Witt Talmage, and apparently only in recent years has it become attributed to Addison.
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“I've been sleeping through my life
Now I'm waking up
And I want to stand in the sunshine”
Juliana Hatfield (1967) American guitarist/singer-songwriter and author
Sunshine
In Exile Deo (2004)
Context: I've been sleeping through my life
Now I'm waking up
And I want to stand in the sunshine
I have never been ecstatic
Had a flower but it never bloomed
In the darkness of my wasted youth
It was hiding in the shadows
Learning to become invisible
Uncover me