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Quotes About Dew

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
~ Jean Paul
A falcon hovers at the edge of the sky. Two gulls drift slowly up the river. Vulnerable while they ride the wind, they coast and glide with ease. Dew is heavy on the grass below, the spider's web is ready. Heaven's ways include the human: among a thousand sorrows, I stand alone.
~ Unknown
Shine: clear dew aching with light.
~ Unknown
Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.
~ Ben Stiller
All beauty of this world is wet with the dew of tears.
~ Theodor Haecker
His sunrise mood evaporated with the dew, giving way to restlessness, disquiet. All his life, Lucius's moods had been prey to shifts of light, and now a leaden melancholy dragged at his spirits.
~ Peter Matthiessen
My girlfriend forgot her love on the sidewalk like a bicycle. All night outside, in the dew.
~ Yehuda Amichai
The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Sleep finally comes like a summer dry river, a trickle that's shallow and splits around rocks and downed branches and tree roots, dividing and dividing, till by morning it's the thin bead of gathered morning dew, dripping lazy off the army tent overhead.
~ Unknown
The mirror is the mother dew, the book of desiccated twilights, echo become flesh.
~ Unknown
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.
~ Unknown
Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh heart again in the gray twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.
~ W.B. Yeats
Aedh tells of the perfect Beauty" O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown by a woman's gaze And by the unlabouring brood of the skies: And therefore my heart will bow, when dew Is dropping sleep, until God burn time, Before the unlabouring stars and you.
~ W.B. Yeats
Premonitions of the imminent catastrophe had condensed like a sticky dew in the houses and the streets, in cautious conversations and drowsy consciences.
~ Primo Levi
Daughters of the Moon, children of the Night, rise like dew together until the morning's light. The owl's cry is our anthem, our altar is the sky. The Great Mystery is our Mother to whom now, sisters, fly.
~ Unknown
Mary's thoughts were like a rain of bitterness and a dew of sweetness gathered in the hollows of a tree-root. A brimming over from them all would have escaped and vanished if she had tried to express them in any sort of speech.
~ John Cowper Powys
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Sharp is your memory, sweet is your name, deep in my heart you'll always remain. Earth wants water, flower wants dew, I want nothing but a smile from you.
~ Unknown
You have seen flowers at morning satisfied with the dew, and those same sweet flowers at noon with their heads bowed in anguish before the mighty sun; think you these thirsty blossoms will now need nought but — dew? No, they will cry for sunlight, and pine for the burning noon, tho' it scorches them
~ Lyndall Gordon
I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too.
~ John Keats
Flowers need sunshine, violets need dew, all angels in heaven know I need you. Years may fly, tears may dry, but my friendship with you will never die.
~ Unknown
It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds a jewel which is beautiful if not valuable. This is no time for hurry or for bustle. Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning. Pablo
~ John Steinbeck
If all the dew were diamonds...we would be very rich. We would be drunk all our lives.
~ John Steinbeck
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
~ Rabindranath Tagore