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Quotes About Sunrise

His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It was about loving my mother for everything -- for her brokenness and her fleeing, for her being there right then in that moment before the sun rose and the hospital staff came in. It was about touching that hair with the side of his fingertip, and knowing yet plumbing fearlessly the depths of her ocean eyes.
~ Alice Sebold
I watched as the stars faded and the landscape began to materialize out of the night and become solid again, and the rim of the world grew rose-pink and deepened to orange and then split with molten gold, and the first rays of the sun speared the wide, empty plains.
~ Alison Croggon
Meet the sunrise with confidence.
~ Alonzo Newton Benn
Tout le plaisir des jours est en leurs matinées
~ Amelie Nothomb
It took five days to drive to Los Angeles by myself. I listened to Abbey Road for six hours at a time and watched the desert open up before me again and again. I saw the sun set and rise at the Grand Canyon, and I sang out over the cliffs, picked up tumble weeds along the way and threw them in the back of my car.
~ Madi Diaz
like a sunrise or sunset, anything so ephemeral. Just like our life - we appear and we disappear and we are so important to some, but, we are just passing through.
~ Richard Linklater
desk into a small and lonely light and floated in dreams on a skiff of words. He blinked away the shadows of an ominous image, something tremendous, dark, winged, blotting over the sparkle of the rising sun. Kipling stood up, one hand pressing the cloth, the other still shielding his eyes. "An airplane," he said. The double wings dipped and a trail of black smoke stained the perfect blue sky and then the craft lurched and dropped below the level of the trees.
~ Richard Monaco
The sun will rise again. The only uncertainty is whether or not we will rise to greet it. Alan Christensen's diary
~ Richard Paul Evans
Things look much brighter in the morning.
~ Richard Phillips
Each sunrise is a precious jewel . . . for it may never be followed by its sunset.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Even in her cap and gown Susan looked like a sunrise, extravagant and full of promise. Wherever she went things seemed, as they always did, to organize around her.
~ Robert B. Parker
As daylight steadily bleached darkness from the sky…
~ Khaled Hosseini
Far beyond the trees, the sun peeked its carroty face over the dark blue water, sweeping away the silvery darkness.
~ Kien Nguyen
By the light coming from the patio, it looked a shade after sunrise. I had to stop waking up at this hour. It was just insane.
~ Kim Harrison
Setting my spiced cider down, I put my elbows on my knees and sighed. I loved the solstice, and not just for the food and parties. Cincinnati dropped all of its lights from midnight until sunrise, and it was the only time I ever saw the night sky as it was supposed to be. Anyone thieving during the blackout was dealt with hard, curtailing any problems.
~ Kim Harrison
A shaft of sweetness shoots through me from top to toe when the sun rises; I shoulder my gun in silent exaltation.
~ Knut Hamsun
En fin, gylden metallrand stiger i øst hvor solen står opp. Byen begynner å våkne, det lyder allerede en og annen fjern rumling av kjerrer som søker inn i gatene fra landet, store, tunge bondekjerrer, fulle av torvvarer, av høy og slakt og favnved.
~ Knut Hamsun
Det sætter en søt Stripe gjennem mig fra øverst til nederst naar Solen staar op; jeg kaster Børsen paa Akslen under en tyst Jubel.
~ Knut Hamsun
God's love was like the sunrise, chasing back the dark and piercing the heart with joy.
~ Kristen Heitzmann
whenever the sun is going up, it's not going down
~ Bram Bertels
For those who've never experienced a sunrise in the rural midwest, it's roughly as soft and romantic as someone's abruptly hitting the lights in a dark room.
~ David Foster Wallace
Sad soul, take comfort, nor forget That sunrise never failed us yet.
~ Celia Thaxter
I am who I am. Life is too beautiful to be sad, to be depressed. The sun comes up every day and it's beautiful.
~ Ilya Bryzgalov
Every morning, the sunrise wakes me up with rays of hope.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.