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Quotes About Dawn

And here face down beneath the sun And here upon earth's noonward height To feel the always coming on The always rising of the night
~ Archibald MacLeish
It is at the time of dawn that we must commune with the gods.
~ Apollonius of Tyana
Wine still tastes for me of the mountaintop of piny woods with a warm spring dawn coming on, and that Spanishy word, Sonoma, is an exotic flavor all to itself.
~ Fred Chappel
es sei nicht immer Tag und auch nicht Nacht.
~ Friedrich Hölderlin
Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows with gratitude, amazement, forebodings, expectation - finally the horizon seems clear again, even if not bright; finally our ships may set out again, set out to face any danger; every daring of the lover of knowledge is allowed again; the sea, our sea, lies open again; maybe there has never been such an 'open sea'.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
In my dream, in my last morning-dream, I stood today on a promontory— beyond the world; I held a pair of scales, and weighed the world. Alas, that the rosy dawn came too early to me: she glowed me awake, the jealous one! Jealous is she always of the glows of my morning-dream.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
In my dream, in my last morning-dream, I stood today on a promontory— beyond the world; I held a pair of scales, and weighed the world. Alas, that the rosy dawn came too early to me: she glowed me awake, the jealous one! Jealous is she always of the glows of my morning-dream.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
In the words of a Zen poem, At dusk the cock announces dawn; At midnight, the bright sun.
~ Fritjof Capra
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
I'm a nomad. A Jewish road warrior. I do not have a concept of home. I wish I did. But I live with the idea that we have to get out of town before dawn.
~ Abbie Hoffman
And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
~ Bram Stoker
I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.
~ Elon Musk
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.
~ Rumi
No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God.
~ Rumi
Who gets up early to discover the moment light begins?
~ Rumi
Maybe it's just the morning light, but he looks pretty cool standing there with his sword.
~ Rumiko Takahashi
I was never afraid of the dark, and till today I see the night as a friend, giving me the privacy that I find so hard to find by day. Starlight, moonlight, early dawn, all have a special loveliness about them.
~ Ruskin Bond
Listen to the night wind in the trees, Listen to the summer grass singing; Listen to the time that's tripping by, And the dawn dew falling. Listen to the moon as it climbs the sky, Listen to the pebbles humming; Listen to the mist in the trembling leaves, And the silence calling.
~ Ruskin Bond
Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness.
~ Ry Cooder
What breaks in daybreak? Is it the night? Is it the sun, cracked in two by the horizon like an egg, spilling out light?
~ Margaret Atwood
Snowman wakes before dawn.
~ Margaret Atwood
Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon...
~ Margaret Atwood
It's daybreak. The break of day. Toby turns this word over: break, broke, broken. What breaks in daybreak? Is it the night? Is it the sun, cracked in two by the horizon like an egg, spilling out light?
~ Margaret Atwood
Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn?
~ Margaret Atwood