Quotes About Dawn

#1. The city does sleep, the windows darken and the streets vacate. New York dreams us. Wild, somnambulistic creatures, we move unhurried toward our own disappearance at dawn.

Stephanie Danler

#2. For sapphires we are held in here. Only you can end our fear." Violet said. "Until dawn comes we cannot speak. No words can come from this sad beak.

Lemony Snicket

#3. The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#4. The window glows. The slow sandy light of dawn permeates the room. Everything transient and aching; everything tentative. To be here, in this room, high in this house, out of the cellar, with her: it is like medicine.

Anthony Doerr

#5. Cryptic Dad is cryptic,' I muttered ... We'd hung out all day today. Was there no time in there he could have said, 'Oh, hey, meet me at the magical bookcase at the butt-crack of dawn tomorrow, cool?

Rachel Hawkins

#6. What are you doing?" Angela complained. "Are you trying to make me jog? You know I think people who jog should be shot at midday."
"Why at midday?" Kami asked absently.
"There's no need to ever get up at dawn," Angela told her. "Not even to shoot joggers.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#7. A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. - OSCAR WILDE, 1888

Erin Morgenstern

#8. Oh, that most helpless and shameful of times in the life of my people, the time from dawn until the liquor stores open up!

Venedikt Yerofeyev

#9. The mighty trojans fell, and so did i.
A wooden horse you were not, yet in a pool of my own blood i lie.
Dawn follows every dusk, and all that rises - fall it must.
So, my blood shall find its way and trickle down your eyes.
The day your deeds of today, eventually make you cry.

Anurag Anand

#10. I think everything should happen at halfway to dawn. That's when all the heads of government should meet. I think everybody would fall in love.

Billy Strayhorn

#11. The thinnest tendrils of dawn are creeping in from the east. People in New York are softly starting to tweet.

Robin Sloan

#12. Anna was a star athlete at school, while Dawn was one of the last picks for any sporting teams. Dawn

Susan May

#13. Dawn. Damn. The universe becomes invisible for another day.

Kurt Anderson

#14. I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow
Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow;
And then I must scrub and bake and sweep
Till the stars are beginning to blink and peep;
And the young lie long and dream in their bed ...

William Butler Yeats

#15. The dawn is brief and the day full often belies its promise.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#16. Before the dawn I leave the night behind me
and before my heart I let you leave me behind.
- from the poem 'Behind

Munia Khan

#17. In the borough, three boys circled a white camel
that wept because at dawn
there was no other way except through the needle's eye!
Oh cross! Oh, nails! Oh, thorn!
Oh, thorn driven to the bone until the planet rust to pieces!

Federico Garcia Lorca

#18. You are still on your own; be stoic; don't panic; get through this hell to the generous sweet overflowing GIVING love of spring ... dawn came, black and white gray into a frozen hell.
I lived: that once. And must shoulder the bundle, the burden of my dead selves until I, again, live.

Sylvia Plath

#19. Love is in the greenwood, dawn is in the skies, And Marian is waiting with a glory in her eyes.

Alfred Noyes

#20. It was the second white apparition which he had encountered. The Bishop had caused the dawn of virtue to rise on his horizon; Cosette caused the dawn of love to rise.

Victor Hugo

#21. My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.

Antonio Porchia

#22. Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you.

Edwin A. Abbott

#23. In this universe the night was falling; the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning lingered; and along the path he once had followed, Man would one day go again.

Arthur C. Clarke

#24. Far, far below the chariot's path, Calm as a slumbering babe, Tremendous Ocean lay. The mirror of its stillness showed The pale and waning stars, The chariot's fiery track, And the gray light of morn Tinging those fleecy clouds That canopied the dawn.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#25. But the mornings were most impressive. They were like the first dawn of creation; as though the world had been washed in dew and was still dripping wet and hushed with an air of expectancy

Ray Nestor

#26. Over shadowy spires and gleaming towers lay the ghostly darkness and silence that runs before dawn.

Robert E. Howard

#27. I live on the limit, Vyvyan. The limit, because I'm a rider at the gates of dawn and I take no prisoners!

Rik Mayall

#28. If the dawn should break
and take away this sunrise,
I hope I break, too.

Ryan Mecum

#29. On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.

Sam Ewing

#30. I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them.

David Attenborough

#31. We take it for granted, the world that we love - and we're destroying it so quickly. The light of dawn on the prairie. The silvery flash of fish in a stream. The cry of a hawk over a forest. Everybody has their own idea of the beautiful, and we'll surely miss it when it's gone.

Johan Rockstrom

#32. Only a few more weeks till spring ... and a few more weeks then till summer ... and holidays ... and Green Gables ... and golden sunlight on Avonlea meadows ... and a gulf that will be silver at dawn and sapphire at noon and crimson at sunset ... and you.

L.M. Montgomery

#33. Every day is a new day when filled with dawn feeling, a virgin day, until it gets fucked up by human activity and becomes history.

Charles Baxter

#34. What is the name of he who comes with eyes closed and fingers black, the one who draws the curtains back when dawn has come? 'Agha Thanatos' or just plain 'Death'? When will I know which is right?

Andre Alexis

#35. I'm a shockingly bad sleeper. In bed very late. Awake at the crack of dawn.

Andy Serkis

#36. The howling pariah dogs, the cocks that herald dawn all night, the drumming, the moaning that will be found later white plumage huddled on telegraph wires in back gardens or fowl roosting in apple trees, the eternal sorrow that never sleeps of great Mexico.

Malcolm Lowry

#37. And swear each night to let her go, then love more by dawn.

Lang Leav

#38. Amory had loved himself in Eleanor, so now what he hated was only a mirror. Their poses were strewn about the pale dawn like broken glass.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#39. I CAUGHT this morning morning's minion, king- dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Fal- con, in his riding

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#40. That dawn he officiated at the daily mass of his ablutions with more frenetic severity than usual, trying to purge his body and spirit of twenty years of fruitless wars and the disillusionments of power.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#41. In the midst of darkness, he alone sees the dawn; in the midst of the soundless, he alone hears harmony.

Zhuangzi

#42. This is the kind of life I've had. Drunk, and in charge of a bicycle, as an Irish police report once put it. Drunk with life, that is, and not knowing where off to next. But you're on your way before dawn. And the trip? Exactly one half terror, exactly one half exhilaration.

Ray Bradbury

#43. Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.

Jack Kerouac

#44. Religion is a wizard, a sibyl ... She faces the wreck of worlds, and prophesies restoration. She faces a sky blood-red with sunset colours that deepen into darkness, and prophesies dawn. She faces death, and prophesies life.

Felix Adler

#45. Siri whispered an answer to my unasked question. "No, Merin, one is never really too old. At least not too old to want the warmth and closeness. You decide, my love. I will be content either way." I decided. Towards the dawn we slept.

Dan Simmons

#46. When it is fairly quiet we can hear the transports behind the enemy lines rolling ceaselessly until dawn. Kat says that they do not go back but are bringing up troops - troops, munitions, and guns.

Erich Maria Remarque

#47. I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.

H.G.Wells

#48. Dreams do not exist within the realm of hours or minutes or any measure of the day. They live between the tick and the tock. Before the toiling of the bell, past the dawn, and beyond the velvet night.

William Joyce

#49. All humans realize they are loved when witnessing the dawn; early morning is the triumph of good over evil. Absolved by light we decide to go on.

Rufus Wainwright

#50. Something wrong with your child? Feed them and put them to bed. Something wrong with your man? Feed him and take him to bed. Lady Jeeha Wolf Dawn

Susan Cartwright

#51. What if a dawn of a doom of a dream
bites this universe in two,
peels forever out of his grave,
and sprinkles nowhere with me and you?

E. E. Cummings

#52. And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

Barbara Castle

#53. Let us do the work that is before us, so that when our time here is over we will all watch the sun go down as we all must, and say truly, we have prepared our children for the dawn.

William J. Clinton

#54. We were granted the right to exist by the God of our fathers at the glimmer of the dawn of human civilization nearly 4,000 years ago. For that right, which has been sanctified in Jewish blood from generation to generation, we have paid a price unexampled in the annals of the nations.

Menachem Begin

#55. ready to ride before dawn. Buck is up with me and puts a whole passel of grub together and makes sure that my weapons

David Atwood

#56. The rising sun sent fingers of light through the pale white mists of dawn.

George R R Martin

#57. You must methodize your life. God created routine. The sun shines until dusk and the stars shine until dawn.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#58. I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it's been a good night.

Hunter S. Thompson

#59. Since the dawn of time every one will die,
Let the history books note my death with loyalty at heart.

Wen Tianxiang

#60. After I had been working as a cap maker for three years it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organization. The men had organized already, and had gained some advantages, but the bosses had lost nothing, as they took it out on us.

Rose Schneiderman

#61. Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.

Robert Breault

#62. His soul, it seemed to him, was more than empty. It was desiccated, reduced to the powder of its substance and now in danger of being blown away by the first puff of the dawn wind that presaged the sun.

Randy Attwood

#63. I laugh because me been dancing with shadow in the dawn and in the night. Even in broad, bright daylight we searching for the dark.

Marlon James

#64. Dawn has two holes pierced in each ear. (Mary Anne and I will never get our ears pierced.) The

Ann M. Martin

#65. Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

Rabindranath Tagore

#66. We come forth tonight," she bagen, "in the name of Sisterhood , to bring new Sisters into our fold. We present to you an oppurtunity, young Sisters. We are the new face of women. Our leadership will bring the dawn of a new era.

Kay Cassidy

#67. Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts
Nor the woman in the ambulance
Whore red heart blooms through her coat so astoundingly
...
Oh my God, what am I
That these late mouths should cry open
In a forest of frost, in a dawn of cornflowers

Sylvia Plath

#68. It is always darkest before the dawn.

Dan Brown

#69. But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf.

Virginia Woolf

#70. The flash of rain, the shining rainbow riding completely around the plane, the lift over mountain ridges, the steady, pure air at dawn take-offs ... It was so alive and rich a life that any other conceivable choice seemed dull, prosaic, and humdrum.

Dean Smith

#71. How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

Victor Hugo

#72. A DAY LAYE"
"Every dawn of our lives a heart is forged and
Linked with lore to one so similar
Born with blessed life dust
Stored beneath its soul
To bless and pass onto its children
Even though the wind may blow it all away
Don't ever worry 'cos I'm your friend.

Marc Bolan

#73. It was just past dawn, in the perfidious part of the day that implied anything was possible when, really, nothing was very likely.

T.C. Boyle

#74. She was the most beautiful woman I'd ever known. It was the beauty of a desert at dawn: a loveliness that filled my eyes, and crushed me into silent, unbreathing awe.

Gregory David Roberts

#75. Earth? Golden Age? Stilgar was irritated and puzzled. Why would Paul wish to discuss myths from the dawn of time?

Frank Herbert

#76. I wondered how many people had sung By the dawn's early light' yesterday and were dead today.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#77. And all the time we spent in this place would fade and vanish, like a dawn dream on waking that colours the day but cannot be touched or remembered.

Neil Gaiman

#78. From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature.

Ahmed Zewail

#79. You just said you had been thinking about it for awhile," Dawn cut in. "Thinking about it," I said. "But you know me - " "I thought I did." Dawn jammed some bean curd in her mouth.

Ann M. Martin

#80. I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn't make yourself over between dawn and dusk.

John Knowles

#81. The advent of truth, like the dawn of day, agitates the elements, while it disperses the gloom.

Elias Lyman Magoon

#82. She gave anyone who saw her a sensation of April and of dawn. There was dew in her eyes. Cosette was a condensation of auroral light in womanly form.

Victor Hugo

#83. The memory of war was fading into the past as a nightmare vanishes with the dawn; soon
it would lie outside the experience of all living men.

Arthur C. Clarke

#84. Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another.

Yann Martel

#85. We should never forget that after every night, there is a dawn. We should never lose our optimistic faith.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#86. You have to have a darkness ... for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for success.

Harrison Ford

#87. My arms wrapped about little Jala, little sister, hot with fever but the fire grew too hot, and so, in my arms, her flesh cooled to dawn-stone, mother keening - Jala was the ember now lifeless, and from that day, in mother's eyes, I became naught but its bed of ash.

Steven Erikson

#88. I miss sunrise even more. The green scent of dawn in the forest? The color blushing back into the world, different every day.

Laini Taylor

#89. Father, we long for the clarity of Your truth to dawn upon our minds and for the immensity of Your love to grip our hearts.

Alistair Begg

#90. Tia was his first love, but Dawn was Tia's.

Yo Loni

#91. He who is neither human nor demon is not the dawn nor the dusk.

Kohta Hirano

#92. Same thing every year, getting up at the crack of dawn, drinking, fighting, throwing up, pissing on walls and then you leave the house and things get bad.

Greg Fitzsimmons

#93. All that night he followed bends of the black road jeweled by starlight until the wan light of the dawn touched the east with red and the pastures turned green. (pg. 76)

Robert Olmstead

#94. Our souls were one, if you must know and never shall they be apart; with splendid dawn, your face aglow i reach for you and find my heart

Nicholas Sparks

#95. One rose is enough for the dawn

Edmond Jabes

#96. Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.

Rene Daumal

#97. Dawn is coming. I can feel it pressing against the darkness like a weight about to tear the night apart.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#98. If you're never ridden a fast horse at a dead run across a desert valley at dawn, be of good cheer: You've only missed out on one half of life.

Edward Abbey

#99. At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. 'Till dawn do us part.

John Green

#100. Adultery can indeed be pleasant, and tying one on can amuse. But betrayal, jealousy, love grown cold, and the gray dawn of the morning after are nobody's idea of a good time.

Robert Farrar Capon