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Quotes About Dawn

Moonflowers blossom in the sand hills before dawn, just as I followed him.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
We can never see the sunrise by looking toward the west. Japanese proverb
~ Lettie B. Cowman
The night has already turned on that imperceptible pivot where two a.m. changes to six a.m.
~ Jay McInerney
Days are only beautiful early in the morning. I should have remembered that. Dawn is merely an illusion that the world is beautiful. When the world opens its eyes, reality reasserts itself, and you're back with the same old shit.
~ Jean-Claude Izzo
Dawn is merely an illusion that the world is beautiful.
~ Jean-Claude Izzo
There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.
~ Russell Baker
I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I feel freshest.
~ Erica Jong
Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man's morning work in this world?
~ Henry David Thoreau
The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.
~ Hesiod
The priests say the new dawn will be like the rain that fertilizes the soil before we begin to plant our corn. It will renew the natural cycle of life. The Mayan people will once again flourish. I believe in this very strongly. The holy men say we are entering a period of clarity. We are rediscovering our Mayan values.
~ Rigoberta Menchu
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Dawn crept up out of the trees, defining a bole, a burl, a leaf at a time the world he'd spent the night trying to comprehend. But what would daylight offer except the illusion of understanding? At least in darkness you were spared the pretending.
~ Unknown
I'm so goddamn horny, the crack of dawn better be careful around me!
~ Tom Waits
And far and near kokilas hail the day
~ Unknown
Mutta voi, miten ihanaa on hiljaisena hetkenä juuri ennen auringon nousua mennä kotiin nukkumaan kun syömiset on syöty, juomiset juotu, puhumiset puhuttu ja tanssittu jalat väsyksiin.
~ Tove Jansson
Could they possibly make it there before dawn? Even if they did, would there be anywhere else to hide as safe as the sinkhole?
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Dawn, slowly filling Church Street with grey light, disclosed another day of war. Because it did this, this dawn bore no more resemblance to a peace-time dawn than the aspect of nature on a Sunday bears a resemblance to the aspect of nature on a weekday. Thus it seemed that dawn itself had been grimly harnessed to the war effort.
~ Patrick Hamilton
HE AWOKE, opened his eyes.
~ Paul Bowles
Why see death as a hangman when it is truer to see it as a harvester leveling the earth with its scythe? Oddly, we take hope from the seasons — the rebirth of spring after the death of winter — or from the rising and setting of the sun. But no spring, no dawn beyond death, has ever been proven. Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
~ Paul Theroux
She let them go all night and in the mornings would find them coming toward her where she slept, with that alert and nervous air unridden horses always have at dawn. They are remembering some far time when predators came for them at first light. So they came toward her with the strange and painful air of fallen angels, treading carefully and slowly as if the earth were foreign soil.
~ Paulette Jiles
The night is just a part of the day
~ Paulo Coelho
the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn
~ Paulo Coelho
Alchemist is like getting up at dawn and seeing the sun rise when other are asleep
~ Paulo Coelho