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Quotes About Dawn

To every hour, its mystery. At dawn, the riddles of life and light. At noon, the conundrums of solidity. At three, in the hum and heat of the day, a phantom moon, already high. At dusk, memory. And at midnight? Oh, then the enigma of time itself; of a day that will never come again passing into history while we sleep. It
~ Clive Barker
It had been a cool dawn. Wisps of white moisture hovered over the ground.
~ Colson Whitehead
They were up past dawn, crashed, were granted absolution in its secular manifestation of late checkout.
~ Colson Whitehead
DAWN UNLOCKED THE MORNING IN INCREMENTS OF GRAY.
~ Colum McCann
In particular, it is the challenge of youth to question the meaning of life. However, the courage to question should be matched by patience. People should be patient until, sooner or later, meaning dawns on them. This is what they should do, rather than taking their lives— or taking refuge in drugs.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt it transcend that hopeless, meaningless world, and from somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of an ultimate purpose. At that moment a light was lit in a distant farmhouse, which stood on the horizon as if painted there, in the midst of the miserable grey of a dawning morning in Bavaria. "Et lux in tenebris lucet"—and the light shineth in the darkness
~ Viktor E. Frankl
I remember one morning... getting up at dawn... there was such a sense of possibility! You know? That feeling? And... and I remember thinking to myself: 'So this is the beginning of happiness...' 'This is where it starts!' 'And, of course, there'll always be more.' Never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning, It was happiness. It was the moment...
~ Virginia Woolf
Et iam prima novo spargebat lumine terras
~ Virgil
Non fugis hinc praeceps, dum praecipitare potestas? Iam mare turbari trabibus, saevasque videbis conlucere faces, iam fervere litora flammis, si te his attigerit terris Aurora morantem.
~ Virgil
The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness
~ Virginia Woolf
For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn...
~ Virginia Woolf
The sun had not yet risen. The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it. Gradually as the sky whitened a dark line lay on the horizon dividing the sea from the sky and the grey cloth became barred with thick strokes moving, one after another, beneath the surface, following each other, pursuing each other, perpetually.
~ Virginia Woolf
I am the seasons, I think sometimes, January, May, November; the mud, the mist, the dawn. I cannot be tossed about, or float gently, or mix with other people.
~ Virginia Woolf
Thus I hope to have kept the sound of the sea and the birds, dawn and garden subconsciously present, doing their work under ground.
~ Virginia Woolf
The night and the stars, the dawn coming up, the barges swimming past, the sun setting.... Ah dear, she sighed, well, the sunset is very lovely too. I sometimes think that poetry isn't so much what we write as what we feel, Mr. Denham.
~ Virginia Woolf
I am the seasons, I think sometimes, January, May, November; the mud, the mist, the dawn. I cannot be tossed about, or float gently, or mix with other people. —Virginia Woolf, The Waves (Harvest Books, January 1, 1978) Originally published October 1931.
~ Virginia Woolf
We have tomorrow Bright before us Like a flame. Yesterday A night-gone thing, A sun-down name. And dawn-today Broad arch above the road we came.
~ Langston Hughes
Then the sun finally comes up, and such 3:00 A.M. thoughts are banished, as they should be.   She
~ Laura Lippman
As proof, the sole cable protecting them from disaster held until dawn, when the storm finally relented.
~ Laurence Bergreen
It is time for Sufism to experience a quantum metamorphosis. It is time for a dawn of splendor on the path of Reality to occur.
~ Laurence Galian
În fiecare diminea?? începe o alt? zi.
~ Cesare Pavese
What hasty preparations we make for our future. Think of it: it seems almost tragic, the things we're sure we ought to bring along. We pack too heavy with what we hope we'll use, and too light of what we must. We thus go forth misladen, ill equipped for the dawn.
~ Chang-Rae Lee
Aubade" And yet— It is not the radiance of the dawn which stings my weary eyes, but the memory of yester-eve's touch as I must leave you now trembling, like the leaves with Light Outlandos D'Amour (2008)
~ Charles
Every day is a new day when filled with dawn feeling, a virgin day, until it gets fucked up by human activity and becomes history.
~ Charles Baxter