102 Short Sunshine Quotes to Light Up Your Day

Sunshine can lift our spirits and make everything feel a little brighter.

Whether it’s the warmth on your face, the golden glow of a new day, or just a metaphor for happiness, sunshine reminds us to embrace the light in life.

Here are some of the best sunshine quotes to brighten your day and fill it with positivity.

Keep scrolling to find your favorite!

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Top Short Sunshine Quotes

“To be happy you must be your own sunshine.” – C.E. Jerningham

“Humor – The sunshine of the mind.” – Bulwer-Lytton

“Some old fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Awaken the sunshine within you.” – Asad Meah

“Friends are the sunshine of life.” – John Hay

“Anything is possible with sunshine and a little pink.” – Lilly Pulitzer

“I believe in the sun, even when it rains.” – Anne Frank

“Every morning, the rising sun invites and inspires us to begin again.” – Debasish Mridha

“In the sun, I feel as one.” – Kurt Cobain

“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!” – John Muir

“Nothing is hidden under the sun.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.” – George R. R. Martin

“How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.” – John Dryden

“Rise up this mornin’, Smile with the risin’ sun.” – Bob Marley

“The sun is new each day.” – Heraclitus

“My sun sets to rise again.” – Robert Browning

“The sun is the giver of life.” – Ramses II

“The sun is but a morning star.” – Henry David Thoreau

“The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.” – Arthur Rimbaud

“The moon only glows when kissed by the sun.” – R. Queen

“I don’t complain when it’s sunny.” – Tim Howard

“It is such a splendid sunny day and I have to go.” – Sophie Scholl

“Sunrays must be the sun’s way of dancing alone.” – Prem

“Nature unfolds her treasure at the first ray of sunrise.” – Kishore Bansal

“Dance when the sun comes up.” – A.D. Posey

“Every day a million miracles begin at sunrise.” – Eric Jerome Dickey

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“Let the sun shine on me, for I care not for the moon.” – Spanish Proverb

“Don’t let the shadows of yesterday spoil the sunshine of tomorrow. Live for today.” – Nandina Morris

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in one’s own sunshine.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo

“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” – John Ruskin

“Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.” – James Matthew Barrie

“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.” – Morris West

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.” – Helen Keller

“It is the artist’s business to create sunshine when the sun fails.” – Romain Rolland

“Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness.” – Jimmie Davis

“There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.” – Orison Swett Marden

“Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.” – Walt Whitman

“He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.” – Samuel Johnson

“Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.” – William Gilmore Simms

“If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.” – Frank Lane

“The sun lay like a friendly arm across her shoulder.” – Margorie Kinnan Rawlings

“Sunshine all the time makes a desert.” – Arabian Proverb

“Before you let the sun in, mind it wipes its shoes.” – Dylan Thomas

“You’ve got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you’re just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.” – Ken Kesey

“Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.” – Ruth Fulton Benedict

“It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me and the sunshine.” – Richard Jefferies

“Far away there in the sunshine are my brightest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.” – Louisa May Alcott

“Just living is not enough…one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” – Hans Christian Andersen

“A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.” – William Arthur Ward

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air’s salubrity.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.” – Anne Brontë

“The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday’s sneer and yesterday’s frown can never come over again.” – Charles Kingsley

“Make use of the sun while it shines.” – Danish Proverb

“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.” – Joseph Addison

“A good laugh is sunshine in the house.” – William Makepeace Thackeray

“Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.” – William Arthur Ward

“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and a man cannot live without love.” – George P. Upton

“Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.” – William Shakespeare

“Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man’s eyes.” – Euripides

“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.” – Thomas Jefferson

“A compliment is verbal sunshine.” – Robert Orben

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott

“Just remember, after they foreclose on your mortgage, you get a lot more sunshine in your life.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” – Roald Dahl

“If you sit down at set of sun and count the acts that you have done, and, counting, find one self-denying deed, one word that eased the heart of him who heard–one glance most kind, that fell like sunshine where it went–then you may count that day well spent.” – George Eliot

“As you cannot have a sweet and wholesome abode unless you admit the air and sunshine freely into your rooms, so a strong body and a bright, happy, or serene countenance can only result from the free admittance into the mind of thoughts of joy and goodwill and serenity.” – James Allen

“Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.” – Lucy Larcom

“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.” – Luther Burbank

“Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.” – Robert Green Ingersoll

“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity.” – Walt Whitman

“His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.” – Anne Brontë

“We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.” – Caroline Norton

“Rays of sun – light of short wavelength and high frequency, hence, it is known as the ‘sunshine vitamin.'” – Frank Murray

“Women have a higher risk of developing ovarian cancer in northern latitudes than they do in southern latitudes, because a lesser availability of sunshine and vitamin D.” – Frank Murray

“We want to feel the sunshine, and we want to smell the flowers.” – Colin Fisher

“Monument Mountain, in the early sunshine; its base enveloped in mist, part of which are floating in the sky, so that the great hill looks really as if it were founded on a cloud.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Eight more chickens hatched. Ascended a mountain with my wife; a beautiful, mellow, autumnal sunshine.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

“In the afternoons, nowadays, this valley in which I dwell seems like a vast basin filled with golden sunshine as with wine.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Lying by the lake yesterday afternoon, with my eyes shut, while the waves and sunshine were playing together on the water, the quick glimmer of the wavelets was perceptible through my closed eyelids.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

“A windy day, with wind northwest, cool, with a prevalence of dull gray clouds over the sky, but with brief quick glimpses of sunshine.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Sun inspires and keeps up its charm whether it rises or settles down.” – Sandeep Ravidutt Sharma

“It’s a unique day today. You can make it amazing.” – Sandeep Ravidutt Sharma

“As the day begins before you start your karma, Nature has already started its cycle of karma, the sun has removed all the traces of darkness and relieved all the stars and the moon for that day.” – Sandeep Ravidutt Sharma

“The blinding sun made every snow-covered inch look like it might fall on us at any moment. ‘The mountain is out!’ the kids squealed.” – Liz Curtis Higgs

“You can turn off the sun but I’m still gonna shine.” – William Golding

“In the autumn of your years don’t make it so that what you look back on is regret. Live your life now so that whatever you do gives some sunshine before you head into the winter of your life.” – Stephen Richards

“It might be raining today but the sun will shine tomorrow.” – Jeremy Parker

“Go down by the bay, enjoy a sun ray, chewing a stick of hay, and let others know you’re here to stay.” – Percy Lee Anderson

“A little tequila, sunshine and tacos never hurt anybody.” – Craig Borten

“Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone, it’s not warm when she’s away. Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone, she’s always gone too long.” – Andy Breckman

“Cloud is forerunner to sunshine… merely a thin veil that hides future happiness.” – William Wolff

“Even the power of sunshine could not penetrate so dense a cloud.” – William Wolff

“Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.” – Walt Whitman

“Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.” – Louisa May Alcott

“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.” – Maud Hart Lovelace

“Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.” – Thomas Mann

“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” – Max Muller