712 – “He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”

–Leo Tolstoy

516 – “Remember, anyone can love you when the sun is shining, but it’s during the storms that you find out who cares for you.”

–anonymous

444 – “Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.”

–e e Cummings [See Source Notes for entire poem]

377 – “The sun loved the moon so much he died every night to let her breathe.”

–anonymous

149 – “Doubt thou the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.”

-Lord Polonius reading in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet