Variant: Don't worry, little dhampir. You might be surrounded by clouds, but you'll always be like sunshine to me.
Source: Shadow Kiss
“If you go beyond the clouds, you will get endless sunshine.”
“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.”
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.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 276.
You Are The Sunshine of My Life
Song lyrics, Talking Book (1972)
Song lyrics, 50 Words for Snow (2011)
“Such laughter, like sunshine on the deep sea, is very beautiful to me.”
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Poet
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 342.
Context: God is summoning you. Angels are summoning you. The myriads who have gone before are summoning you. We are surrounded by a "great cloud of witnesses." The battlements of the sky seem thronged with those who have fought the good fight of faith. They bend down from the eminence, and bid us ascend, through the one Mediator, to the same lofty dwelling.
some poetry lines of Friedrich, c. 1802-05; as cited by C. D. Eberlein in C. D. Friedrich Bekenntnisse, p 57; as quoted & translated by Linda Siegel in Caspar David Friedrich and the Age of German Romanticism, Boston Branden Press Publishers, 1978, p. 48
1794 - 1840
“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
