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Quotes About Dawn

There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Dawn is a precious time of day. It reminds us that every glory must fade, and that all things, cruel or sweet, come to an end.
~ Simon Higgins
I wonder who else in the world was having such an exquisite dawn.
~ Hope Jahren, Lab Girl
I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land. You who have it to see, welcome it ... and forget not those who have fallen during the night!
~ Jose Rizal
At the dawn of light, the darkness diminishes.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Don't confuse the darkness that's leaving with the light that's coming in.
~ A.D. Posey
The ravens of the night were hush'd, The bird of dawn began his lay, The rose-bud, newly wakened, blush'd To feel the touch of springing day; And bade the roses round unveil, Roused by the warbling nightingale. The jasmine stood all bathed in dew; Wet were the violet's lids of blue. - Zuleika's Dream
~ Jami
Lorsque au lever de l'aurore le zéphyr vivifiant comme le souffle de l'amour commença à frémir dans le feuillage, chargé du parfum le plus pur des fleurs, et que de la conque azurée du firmament une pluie de perles descendit sur la terre rafraîchie, Keïs, délivré du monstre hideux de la nuit, renferma dans son sein ses plaintes et ses soupirs.
~ Jami
Men ate the bread of angels," was how the psalmist described it. That appeared, somehow, to illustrate his marriage. Every day, with what seemed to be no effort at all on his part, he received God's extraordinary provision of contentment—there it was, waiting for him at every dawn; all he had to do was gather it in.
~ Jan Karon
From your hand, creating God, come the shape of the land, the warmth of fire, the mystery of shadows, the feel of skin. From your mouth, mighty Spirit, flow the sound of thunder, the whisper of rain, the stillness of dawn, the humming of night. May I touch, O God; O Spirit, may I hear.
~ Jan L. Richardson
I stepped off the Learjet at the private airfield just before dawn. I'd been on the plane exactly seventeen hours, twenty-six minutes and fourteen seconds, wearing the same eight-hundred-dollar dress I'd worn when I killed a man twenty-five hours earlier.
~ Jana Deleon
Even before the sun lights the day, fireflies illuminate the path.
~ Jane Hawes
I hate mornings. They start so early.
~ Janet Evanovich
Sometimes, the darkest part of the morning is just before dawn
~ Janette Oke
The morning always has a way of creeping up on me and peeking in my bedroom windows. The sunrise is such a pervert.
~ Jarod Kintz
Love is an eternal struggle with the angel. From dawn to night. Without mercy. The opponent is often stronger. But woe to him who doesn't realize that his angel has no wings and will not bless.
~ Jaroslav Seifert
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Post Impressions into the strenuous briefness Life: handorgans and April darkness,friends i charge laughing. Into the hair-thin tints of yellow dawn, into the women-coloured twilight i smilingly glide. I into the big vermilion departure swim,sayingly; (Do you think?)the i do,world is probably made of roses & hello: (of solongs and,ashes)
~ e. e. cummings
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
All in green went my love of riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn.
~ E.E. Cummings
i charge laughing. Into the hair-thin tints of yellow dawn, into the women-coloured twilight
~ E.E. Cummings
On Sunday mornings, as the dawn burned into day, swarms of gulls descended on the uncollected trash, hovering and dropping in the cold clear light.
~ Edward Conlon
He dado el salto de mí al alba. He dejado mi cuerpo junto a la luz y he cantado la tristeza de lo que nace
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Grises pájaros en el amanecer son a la ventana cerrada lo que a mis males mi poema
~ Alejandra Pizarnik