Dawn Quotes
928 Dawn quotes by 682 unique authors
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Some nights stay up till dawn, as the moon sometimes does for the sun. Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way of a…
— Unknown Author
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Stars burn clear all night till dawn. Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for.
— Unknown Author
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When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for…
— Gregory Maguire
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Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home. Understanding nourishes belonging. When you really feel understood,…
— John O'Donohue
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Transience is the force of time that makes a ghost of every experience. There was never a dawn, regardless how beautiful or promising, that did…
— John O'Donohue
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Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Let me look up from it - as at last…
— Charles Dickens
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Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.
— John Masefield
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But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to…
— Virginia Woolf
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And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn spreads…
— Tim O'Brien
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Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off…
— Vera Nazarian
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To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of…
— Barack Obama
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Instead, I try to adjust to the dawn, letting the tears fall where they may, because it is morning; it is morning and there is…
— Libba Bray
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We have each other, and our stories twist and mingle like the twisting currents of a river. We hold each other tight as we spin…
— David Almond
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Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great…
— Yann Martel
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Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the dark I rest, unready for the light which dawns day after day, eager to be shared. Black silk, shelter me. I need more…
— Denise Levertov
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Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.
— Alfred Jarry
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This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is…
— John Muir
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As far as history goes I am dead. If there is something beyond I shall have to bounce back. I have found God, but he…
— Henry Miller
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Dawn tinted the darkness like water ink.
— Janet Fitch
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Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore.
— Cameron Dokey
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Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when the people reaches…
— Jose Rizal
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I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn’t make yourself…
— John Knowles
Who Wrote These Dawn Quotes
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