Dawn Quotes

928 Dawn quotes by 682 unique authors

Sometimes when she is able to spend the night with him they are wakened by the three minarets of the city beginning their prayers before… — Michael Ondaatje
He fell in love with Manhattan's skyline, like a first-time brothel guest falling for a seasoned professional. He mused over her reflections in the black… — Arthur Phillips
Yet, she said to herself, form the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreaths heaped and roses; and if you asked nine… — Virginia Woolf
For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack. — D. H. Lawrence
Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you… — Margaret Atwood
There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass. — Archibald MacLeish
Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven. — William Wordsworth
Oh,to be walking through Leningrad white night after white night, the dawn to dusk all smelting together like platinum ore, Tatiana thought, turning away to… — Paullina Simons
Beauty, midnight, vision dies: Let the winds of dawn that blow Softly round your dreaming head Such a day of welcome show Eye and knocking… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just… — Gary Snyder
Will not the very moment of great disillusionment with my brother or sister be incomparably wholesome for me becuase it so thoroughly teaches me that… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl. — Oscar Wilde
Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you… — Barbara Kingsolver
Do not belong to the past dawns,but to the noons of future — Sri Aurobindo
Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling and uncoiling in… — Clark Ashton Smith
When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you. Where before there was anonymity,… — John O'Donohue
By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question. — Robert Harris
Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches... — Frances Hardinge
In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Night of Sleepless Love The night above. We two. Full moon. I started to weep, you laughed. Your scorn was a god, my laments moments… — Federico Garcia Lorca
All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to… — Oscar Wilde
He waved at his attendants. "I dragged them like a ball and chain all the way across the palace and back." "If sterner measures are… — Megan Whalen Turner
I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time. — Patrick Ness
He could say nothing. He had no right to be there, he had already been profoundly changed, he was no good at small talk, she… — Mark Helprin

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