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Quotes About Dawn

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
~ William Shakespeare
Quoth the Ocean, "Dawn! O fairest, clearest, Touch me with thy golden fingers bland; For I have no smile till thou appearest For the lovely land.
~ Jean Ingelow
The breeze and the dew make tranquil the clear dawn; Behind the curtain there is one who alone is up betimes. The orioles sing and the flowers smile - Whose then, after all, is the Spring?
~ Li Shangyin
A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.
~ Walter Savage Landor
It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying.
~ zusak markus iii
Yes: I am a dreamer. For 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. ERNEST:
~ A.O. Scott
Once I heard Dantly tell Welton that the Native Americans used to call that particular part of the morning "between the wolf and the dog" because the sky is so deep blue and spooky or whatever that you can't tell what's what. Is that a wolf on that hill or a dog? A man or a monkey? A saint or the devil?
~ Adam Rapp
Everything's finished. Riders gallop black horses, a tyrant composes a sentence of death with grammatical errors. Youth dissolves in a day; girls' faces freeze into medallions, despair turns to rapture and the hard fruits of stars in the sky ripen like grapes, and beauty endures, shaken, unperturbed, and God is and God dies; night returns to us in the evening, and the dawn is hoary with dew.
~ Adam Zagajewski
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive.
~ Adeline Yen Mah
It was well before sunrise. But all you had to do was wait. Patience was a weapon. If you waited long enough, the dawn would come.
~ Adrian McKinty
There is nothing more peaceful than New York City at three A.M. It's the rest period before the madness begins at dawn.
~ Adriana Trigiani
My day begins at dawn as I take my cup of strong black espresso outside to watch the sunrise. I learned this ritual from my mother, who worked in a bread shop. Bakers are the great philosophers of the world, mostly because they have to get up early. When the world is quiet, great art is created - or, at the very least, conceptualized. Now is the moment to sketch, make notes, and dream.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Thus it was that the dawn of sensibility was mistaken for the onset of senility
~ Alan Bennett
La fe es el pájaro que siente la luz y canta cuando todavía no ha amanecido».
~ Alan Cohen
There never was night that had no morn.
~ Dinah Mulock Craik
I'm telling you of French nights at the moment," the doctor went on, "and why we all go into them. The night and the day are two travels, and the French - gut-greedy and fist-tight though they often are - alone leave testimony of the two in the dawn; we tear up the one for the sake of the other; not so the French.
~ Djuna Barnes
The lights have been dimmed and the window is awash in the blackness and he can see a hairline fracture of dawn against the horizon.
~ Dominic Smith
Louis] knew on some level that fame is not the story we tell; it is the story the world tells us. And the world was telling Louis it wanted to see itself reflected in gouache and charcoal of painted calico; that the human eye longed to trust the illusion of likeness. Render perfectly a meadow at dusk, a horizon at dawn, and people will love you for it. For giving them something they didn't know they already had.
~ Dominic Smith
Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk.
~ Beverley Nichols
I think it's early. Early in our lives. Early in the night. Early in the new year. If you're counting, you'll notice the earlys outnumber the lates.
~ Jennifer Niven
I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.
~ Jennifer Niven
Allí mismo, veíamos asomar el sol al siguiente día, «enlagunados» por el licor.
~ Jesús Rodríguez
El amanecer se acerca con toda su luz de oro, después de caminar varios minutos contra el viento seco
~ Jesús Rodríguez
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