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Quotes About Dawn

He carries in his eyes a pearl; from the ends of days and from the winds he takes a spark; and from his hand, from the islands of rain a mountain, and creates dawn. I know him—he carries in his eyes the prophecy of the seas. He named me history and the poem that purifies a place. I know him—he named me flood.
~ Khaled Mattawa
Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
~ Khalil Gibran
missing anything. The northern horizon, which had turned a bluish grey, showed orange again. The orange turned into copper and then into a luminous russet. Red tongues of flame leaped into the black sky. A soft
~ Khushwant Singh
All she could recall later, in the solicitous light of dawn, was that she had touched a nightmare, and that the nightmare had somehow reached out to touch her in return.
~ Kim Wilkins
Suddenly a sorrow the color of dawn welled up in him. They might as well lick each other's wounds. But they would lick forever, and the wounds would never heal, and in the end their tongues would be worn away.
~ Kobo Abe
They rose at five, which is Satan's hour, as everyone knows,
~ Kristan Higgins
The world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early, and have seen the first of the dawn, will know it - the day rises out of the night like a being that has burst its tomb and escaped into life.
~ George MacDonald
They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light.
~ George R.R. Martin
It seemed cruel for a day to dawn so fair and end so foul as this one promised to.
~ George R.R. Martin
The pale pink light of dawn sparkled on branch and leaf and stone. Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of water turned to diamond. Flowers and mushrooms alike wore coats of glass. Even the mud puddles had a bright brown sheen. Through the shimmering greenery, the black tents of his brothers were encased in a fine glaze of ice. So there is magic beyond the Wall after all.
~ George R.R. Martin
However bright a torch might burn it could never match the rising sun.
~ George R.R. Martin
Oldtown waited for the dawn, and the coming of the dragons. And the dragons came.
~ George R.R. Martin
No man had need of candles when the sun awaited him.
~ George R.R. Martin
All knights must bleed, Jaime," Ser Arthur Dayne had said, when he saw. "Blood is the seal of our devotion." With dawn he tapped him on the shoulder; the pale blade was so sharp that even that light touch cut through Jaime's tunic, so he bled anew. He never felt it. A boy knelt; a knight rose. The Young Lion, not the Kingslayer. But that was long ago, and the boy was dead.
~ George R.R. Martin
The comet's tail spread across the dawn, a red slash that bled above the crags of Dragonstone like a wound in the pink and purple sky. The maester stood on the windswept balcony outside his chambers. It was here the ravens came, after long flight. Their droppings speckled the gargoyles that rose twelve feet tall on either side of him,
~ George R.R. Martin
Sweet it was, sweet and gone too soon. Dawn came cruel, a dagger of light.
~ George R.R. Martin
Her nights were lit by distant stars and the shimmer of moonlight on snow, but every dawn she woke to darkness.
~ George R.R. Martin
The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer.
~ George R.R. Martin
The light that brings the dawn.
~ George R.R. Martin
Come quickly. You mustn't miss the dawn. It will never be just like this again.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
Good morning war. Good morning money.
~ Gerald A. Browne
The sea lifted smooth blue muscles of wave as it stirred in the dawn-light, and the foam of our wake spread gently behind us like a white peacock's tail, glinting with bubbles.
~ Gerald Durrell
The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
There never was night that had no morn.
~ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik