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Quotes About Dawn

This getting up early," he thought, "makes a man quite idiotic.
~ Franz Kafka
There are some moments in life that are like pivots around which your existence turns—small intuitive flashes, when you know you have done something correct for a change, when you think you are on the right track. I watched a pale dawn streak the cliffs with Day-glo and realized this was one of them. It was a moment of pure, uncomplicated confidence—and lasted about ten seconds.
~ Robyn Davidson
We will all wake up semi-angels, If we wake at all.
~ Rod McKuen
or Hellespont, is beginning to catch the growing light.
~ Roderick Beaton
The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.
~ Roger Zelazny
Islands of memory begin to rise above the river of his life. At first they are little uncharted islands, rocks just peeping above the surface of the waters. Round about them and behind in the twilight of the dawn stretches the great untroubled sheet of water; then new islands, touched to gold by the sun.
~ Romain Rolland
Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.
~ Roman Payne
Easy pulled Poncho to him, slammed him against the wall again. A Maxfield Parrish print of dawn fell off its hook. "You brought her here Saturday.
~ Ron Goulart
Although there were moments even still in the grey glint of morning when the room had the agitated, stricken appearance of a person who had changed his creed a thousand times, sighed, stretched himself, turned a complete somersault, sat up, smiled, lay down, turned up his toes and died of doubts. But this aspect was reserved exclusively for the housemaids and the translucent threads of dawn.
~ Ronald Firbank
Expect a miracle. Have faith and hope. Because night is darkest just before dawn..and you or I do not hold the brush that colors the night and the day.
~ Rooma Mehra
Dawn was sad, calm, and brimming with debt.
~ Louise Erdrich
Evening Star, Hesperos, you bring all good things. You bring home all the bright dawn disperses, bring home the sheep, bring home the goat, bring the child home to its mother.
~ Luanne Rice
who can but shiver and forgive in the damp theatrical airs of dawn? A
~ M. John Harrison
Não chores, meu bem; não queiras que o dia amanheça com duas auroras.
~ Machado de Assis
It was not an end, it was a beginning.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
The sky lightened, and the sun sent its fiery rays over the edge of the lake, reaching up into the sky, pulling itself, dripping, from the waters of the night.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
The moon set. The sun rose.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in the loveliness between the two. A House Like a Lotus
~ Madeleine L'Engle
For myself I like to take my sorrow into the shadow of old monasteries, my guilt into cloisters and under tapestries, and into the misericordes of unimaginable cantinas where sad-faced potters and legless beggars drink at dawn…
~ Malcolm Lowry
Morning is a song that succeeds the music of dawn...
~ Saurav Somani
The darkest moments of the night herald the imminent advent of a radiant sun.
~ Abhijit Naskar
To see the dawn of a new beginning, You have to make a move in the Night.
~ Digvijay Jaiswal
vampire hours of rest between dawn and noon.
~ Amy Tan
I awoke at dawn, thrown up on a rock, the skeleton of a ship choked in its own sails.
~ Anais Nin