Dawn Quotes

From dawn to dusk, winter to spring, summer & autumn; the contrasts of nature refresh the mind & renew our sense of balance

It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.

When we finally give up the struggle to find fulfillment "out there," we have nowhere to go but within. It is at this moment of total surrender that a new light begins to dawn.

Dawn comes slowly but dusk is rapid.

There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn.

Africa, help me to go home, carry me like an aged child in your arms. Undress me and wash me. Strip me of all of these garments, strip me as a man strips off dreams when the dawn comes. . . .

Yes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.

Dawn came on us like a betrayer; it seemed as though the new sun rose as an ally of our enemies to assist in our destruction.

The way we treat our children in the dawn of their lives and the way we treat our elderly in the twilight of their lives is a measure of the quality of a nation.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Our eternal message of hope is that dawn will come.

I was always amazed at how beautiful the light was. At different times of the day the landscape becomes a different place. Dawn and dusk, it's a different place.

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

It was the dawn of the third age of mankind.

Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.

You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn.

To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.

No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.

...even the most horribl e of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn.

I've always like the time before dawn because there's no one around to remind me who I'm supposed to be, so it's easier to remember who I am.

So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.

Show him every dawn & read to him endlessly.

But no words will change my desire / My determination born of love / My will to set my eccentric sight / On an ever exquisite dawn

Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

You can't do it all. No one can have two full-time jobs, have perfect children and cook three meals and be multi-orgasmic 'til dawn ... Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

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

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore.

Why am I covered in feathers

The sky sinks in the morning, this fact has been insufficiently observed.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Life sucks, and then you die.

Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel?

Oh, night that guided me, Oh, night more lovely than the dawn,Oh, night that joined Beloved with lover, Lover transformed in the Beloved!

A lot of young girls together is a romantic secret thing like the first sight of wild ducks at dawn.

Little by little deep inside us, the diamond shines, the eyes open, the dawn rises, we become what we already are.

God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.

Today, as chief Of the guardians of the seas Of the land of the dawn, I gaze up with awe At the rising sun!

Creation was not finished at the dawn of this earth, but creation continues, and we have a lot to do to make the world a better place.

sometimes i get up at dawn, and even my soul is wet.

Disappointment always arrives before hope and the darkness of night comes before the dawn. Don't lose hope now because things will brighter with the new day.

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.

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.

Behind the veil of each night, there is a smilling dawn.

Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches.