Dawn Quotes

I saw the first light, fore-running the sun, gather in a cup of the eastern cloud, gather and grow and brim, till at last it spilled like milk over the golden lip, to smear the dark face of heaven from end to end. From east to north, and back to south again, the clouds slackened, the stars, trembling on the verge of extinction, guttered in the dawn wind, and the gates of day were ready to open at the trumpet. . .

~ Mary Stewart

The stars were going out now, one by one, dropping like pennies behind the television aerials and the skylights and the washing strung between the chimneys. The sky was still dark - a sated, navy-blue woman - but the grass was jittery with the expectation of dawn.

~ Peter S. Beagle

All night the earth and the heavens followed their usual arrangements. Stars passed: an immense tide hung over them. A silent sea raced back with the sun, its wave turn-over small, delicate and comfortless. The most glorious of all stars hung above the sun's threshold and went out. An hour later the sun governed the earth again, mist-chasing, flower-opening, bird-rousing, ghost-driving, spirit-shepherding back out the various gates of sleep.

~ Mary Butts

The moon went slowly down in loveliness; she departed into the depth of the horizon, and long veil-like shadows crept up the sky through which the stars appeared. Soon, however, they too began to pale before a splendour in the east, and the advent of the dawn declared itself in the newborn blue of heaven. Quieter and yet more quiet grew the sea, quiet as the soft mist that brooded on her bosom, and covered up her troubling, as in our tempestuous life the transitory wreaths of sleep brook upon a pain-racked soul, causing it to forget its sorrow. From the east to the west sped those angels of the Dawn, from sea to sea, from mountain-top to mountain-top, scattering light from breast and wing. On they sped out of the darkness, perfect, glorious; on, over the quiet sea, over the low coast-line, and the swamps beyond, and the mountains above them; over those who slept in peace and those who woke in sorrow; over the evil and the good; over the living and the dead; over the wide world and all that breathes or as breathed thereon.

~ H. Rider Haggard

ADVERSE REVERSEAdvanced technology has regressed us into warmongering apes with superior weaponsKamil Ali

~ Kamil Ali

When the twilight of all my evenings reaches me, after a long dark day, my complicated thoughts suffocate inside all of my uncomplicated longings. Evenings refuse to end. And the dawns that constantly swallow up my nights, always shows me an extremely long road I still need to tread, and discover. And get hurt.

~ Khadija Rupa

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

I walked along the shore in the morning light, the winds have slept in the arms of dawn after crying all night.

~ Ipsit Bibhudarshi

Bright morning comes; the bloody-fingered dawn with zealous light sets seas of air ablaze and bends to earth another false beginning. My eyes open like cornflowers, stick, crusted with their own stale dew, then take that light.

~ Iain Banks

IVREVEILLEWake: the silver dusk returningUp the beach of darkness brims,And the ship of sunrise burningStrands upon the eastern rims.Wake: the vaulted shadow shaatters,Trampled to the floor it spanned,And the tent of night in tatters Straws the sky-pavilioned land.Up, lad, up, 'tis late for lying:Hear the drums of morning play;Hark, the empty highways cryingWho'll beyond the hills away?Towns and countries woo together,Forelands beacon, belfries call;Never lad that trod on leatherLived to feast his heart with all.Up, lad: thews that lie and cumberSunlit pallets never thrive;Morns abed and daylight slumberWere not meant for man alive.Clay lies still, but blood's a rover;Breath's a ware that will not keepUp, lad: when the journey's overThere'll be time enough to sleep.

~ A.e. Housman

...at dawn, the grains of sleep turn to floating black spots, then out of focus the world tilts, and the cat scratches at the door...

~ John Geddes

A crimson fire that vanquishes the stars;A pungent odor from the dusty sage;A sudden stirring of the huddled herds;A breaking of the distant table-landsThrough purple mists ascending, and the flareOf water ditches silver in the light;A swift, bright lance hurled low across the world;A sudden sickness for the hills of home.

~ Willa Cather

CHARADE PARADEA 'Special Day' once a year creates an excuse for neglect on the other 365 days for mothers, fathers & veterans

~ Kamil Ali

The nearer the dawnthe darker the night.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon...

~ Margaret Atwood

There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.

~ Robin Hobb

The dawn is your enemy.

~ Adult Swim

I've often been sorry to see a night end, even while I have loved seeing the dawn come.

~ Marilynne Robinson

Night was fading over the fields as if the rain had washed the darkness out of the hem of its garment.

~ Cornelia Funke

SELF HELPUse the same amount of energy required to pull others down, to uplift yourself insteadKamil Ali

~ Kamil Ali

That's when it happens. Maybe it was my argument. Maybe it was my scary zeal. Whatever the reason, as soon as Megan whistles, the crowd is on its feet.They're blowing bubbles. They're raising their lighters high. They're cheering through their fangs...For Dawn Summers, for themselves and each other, for every sibling who got tossed into a situation beyond her control.For me.And for my sister, who whistles again...Once more with feeling.

~ Cynthia Leitich Smith

LATENT TALENTAnagram of complacencyKamil Ali

~ Kamil Ali

CRITIC OR CITRIC?Anagram of ordinary passing judgement on talentedKamil Ali

~ Kamil Ali

The eastern savanna shifted from charcoal to deep purple, to the west a feverish orange moon sank into the Kiambu Hills.

~ Mike Bond

Bosch knew the dawn had nothing on the dusk. Dawn always came up ugly, as if the sun was clumsy and in a hurry. The dusk was smoother, the moon more graceful. Maybe it was because the moon was more patient. In life and nature, Bosch thought, darkness always waits.

~ Michael Connelly

Of the things we fashioned for them that they might be comforted, dawn is the one that works.

~ John Banville

Hail the sun! the brightest of all that everDawned on the City of Seven Gates, City of Thebes!Hail the golden dawn over Dirce's riverRising to speed the flight of the white invaders Homeward in full retreat! - Chorus

~ Sophocles

If you don't look before the dusk and beyond the dawn, you won't be able to see the sun. (Soar)

~ Soar

RECURRENT CURRENTSLike the ocean, life ebbs and flows with the occasional ripKamil Ali

~ Kamil Ali

There is an unequivocal question in every layer of a dawn's beautiful rise that asks: What are you going to do with this one glorious day?

~ Melanie Gow

What I saw was just one eyeIn the dawn as I was going:A bird can carry all the skyIn that little button glowing.Never in my life I wentSo deep into the firmament.

~ Harold Monro

Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering?And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn?

~ Kahlil Gibran

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Death was here. The showdown wouldn't occur with the darkness of Halloween. It had come at dawn, and it bathed them in blood.

~ Cynthia Eden

If I had to, I was going to rip every inch of me open, give him as much blood as he needed to survive.

~ Ada Adams

The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.

~ Roger Zelazny

LEASELife Ends And Session ExpiresKamil Ali - Poem, The Balance' - Profound Vers-A-Tales

~ Kamil Ali

RACE INTERFACEIf God created man in his own image - What's his facial profile?Kamil Ali

~ Kamil Ali

ALATE POSTULATEWhen angels were invented, flight required wings

~ Kamil Ali

COMPASSIONThe religion of atheists

~ Kamil Ali