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Quotes About Dawn

To paint is to love again, live again, see again. To get up at the crack of dawn in order to take a peek at the water colors one did the day before, or even a few hours before, is like stealing a look at the beloved while she sleeps. The thrill is even greater if one has first to draw back the curtains. How they glow in the cold light of early dawn! … Is there any writer who rouses himself at daybreak in order to read the pages of his manuscript? Perish the thought!
~ Henry Miller
I want to flee toward a perpetual dawn with a swiftness and relentlessness that leaves no room for remorse, regret, or repentance. I want to outstrip the inventive man who is a curse to the earth in order to stand once again before an impassable deep which not even the strongest wings will enable me to traverse.
~ Henry Miller
In Greece one has the desire to bathe in the sky. You want to rid yourself of your clothes, take a running leap and vault into the blue. You want to float in the air like an angel or lie in the grass rigid and enjoy the cataleptic trance. Stone and sky, they marry here. It is the perpetual dawn of man's awakening.
~ Henry Miller
Out of the shdows of night The world rolls into light.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The nearer the dawn, the darker the night
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The sun is new each day.
~ Heraclitus
In the morning, my alarm clock is a chorus of lemurs yelling!
~ Bindi Irwin
Every sunrise gives you reason to hope. Every darkness of night teaches you patience.
~ Debasish Mridha
The morning sun will bring you a fresh new day with a fresh new world of possibilities.
~ Debasish Mridha
All really great flying adventures begin at dawn.
~ Stephen Coonts
Unless it does turn out to be you, of course," Izzy adds. "Then I'll spit on your grave myself. Take you to the last house on the left just before dawn.
~ Stephen Graham Jones
But to his surprise, just before daylight, he found himself being aroused from a slumber he had not known he had achieved.
~ Stephen Harrigan
Gradually, the night stumbled as if stunned and wandering aimlessly into an overcast day -- limped through the wilderland of transition as though there were no knowing where the waste of darkness ended and the ashes of light began. The low clouds seemed full of grief -- tense and uneasy with accumulated woe -- and yet affectless, unable to rain, as if the air clenched itself too hard for tears. And through the dawn, Atiaran and Covenant moved heavily, unevenly, like pieces of a broken lament.
~ Stephen R. Donaldson
The snow lay deep and undisturbed beneath the silver light of a dawning sky.
~ Stephen R. Lawhead
The moon, a sweeping scimitar, dipped in the stormy straits, The dawn, a crimson cataract, burst through the eastern gates, The cliffs were robed in scarlet, the sands were cinnabar, Where first two men spread wings for flight and dared the hawk afar.
~ Stephen Vincent Bent
My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?
~ Stephenie Meyer
I'm not really a morning person.
~ Steve Burton
On those early mornings, it is dark and normal people are still in bed.
~ Steve Walker
I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
~ Iman
Eôsphoros, ' ????????' (pronunciation: eh-aw-s- fOR-aw s) is the Greek name for the Latin Lucifer, 'Dawn Bringer'; the planet Venus was known by this name along with Hesperos '???????', known in Latin as Vesperus, 'Evening Star'.
~ Michael W. Ford
After the medicine suffused his body, peace came to him like an engulfing wave. His limbs grew light, and slumber wafted its warm breezes over his head. He fell asleep, and the last thing he heard was the pre-dawn twittering of the birds in the wood. But soon they were silent, and he began to dream that the sun was already setting over Bald Mountain, and the mountain was surrounded by a double cordon... (181)
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
I love that sound,' he mumbled into her hair. 'Blackbirds at dawn.' 'I hate it. Makes me think I've done something I'll regret.
~ David Nicholls
All in green went my love of riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn.
~ e. e. cummings
Plötzlich hob er seinen Blick und spürte in der Luft dieses unheimliche Etwas kurz vor Morgengrauen, das den Menschen ein Gruseln einflößt.
~ Bram Stoker