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Quotes About Dawn

Before me lies a gaping void. And the anguish comes into its own, alone in the void, beyond the vanished things. I am alone. I am that anguish which exists alone, in spite of me; I am merged with that blind existence. In spite of me and yet issuing only from myself. Refuse to exist: I exist. Decide to exist: I exist. Refuse, decide. I exist. There will be dawn.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Your lips are for songs about rivers in the morning and lakes at twilight.
~ Sinclair Lewis
The daylight had dawned upon the glades of the oak forest. The green boughs glittered with all their pearls of dew.
~ Sir Walter Scott
What question? I ask, breathless. Whether you're as beautiful in the morning as you are during the rest of the day.
~ Sophie Jordan
Hail the sun! the brightest of all that ever Dawned on the City of Seven Gates, City of Thebes! Hail the golden dawn over Dirce's river Rising to speed the flight of the white invaders Homeward in full retreat! - Chorus
~ Sophocles
The dawn of beauty always comes after night.
~ Sorin Cerin
Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn; We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other life.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You can see clearly in a sacred dawn of light.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
LIFE IS LIKE A FRESH DAY, DEATH IS THE NIGHT WHEN THE DAY ENDS.
~ Hansrajvir
Foolishness sleeps soundly, while knowledge turns with each thinking hour, longing for the dawn of answers.
~ Anthony Liccione
Every new morning is new moment in time.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
While the cock with lively dinScatters the rear of darkness thin,And to the stack, or the barn door,Stoutly struts his dames before,Oft list'ning how the hounds and hornCheerly rouse the slumb'ring morn.
~ John Milton
Till morning fairCame forth with pilgrim steps, in amice gray.
~ John Milton
Ere the blabbing eastern scout,The nice morn on th' Indian steep,From her cabin'd loophole peep.
~ John Milton
Morn,Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy handUnbarr'd the gates of light.
~ John Milton
if you planned to seize the day, you might as well start with the beginning of it.
~ John Passarella
I remember him, already a defeated old man, getting up before dawn to face the unmusical reality of soiled bloody dressings.)
~ John Rechy
I'm so horny the crack of dawn isn't safe.
~ John Sandford
For me the diamond dawns are set In rings of beauty...
~ John Townsend Trowbridge
For me the diamond dawns are set In rings of beauty, And all my ways are dewy wet With pleasant duty.
~ John Townsend Trowbridge
Give me peaches like burning clouds. I'll pare those globes until dawn. The syrup will linger on my fingers like your scent. Let me escape my own insistence.
~ Ellen Bass
Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience, unless they are still up.
~ Ellen Goodman
A deserted beach at dawn was the perfect place to nurse my feelings of desolation, to let them trot out a bit, like a kid plays with the breaking waves, then pull them back inside for another close inspection.
~ Ellen Wittlinger
Now wild-eyed with the last of his vapor, her husband leapt to his feet and bellowed a desperate, enigmatic question to the first glimmer of dawn light. "Did you ever see a stare like a Persian cat?" And then, out like that light, he fell back in a stupor. •
~ Elvis Costello