Before Sunrise Quotes

• When you do 'Before Sunset,' you know while it's a limited audience, there was a very small group of people that love 'Before Sunrise.' You feel a certain pressure to make sure that you uphold a level of quality that has been a bar. You set a bar and you have to at least match it.

  Ethan Hawke

  Sunset, People, Sunrise

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• The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.

  Rumi

  Good Morning, Spiritual, Inspiration

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Breeze At Dawn”

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• The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

  Voltaire

  Darkness, Sunrise, Quiet

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• Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

  George Washington Carver

  Good Morning, Beauty, Beautiful

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• I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt.

  Richard Linklater

  Believe, Space, Magic In The World

  "Before Sunrise". www.imdb.com. January 24, 1995.

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• Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?

  Julie Delpy

  Sunrise, Littles, Way

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• O let not Time deceive you,
  You cannot conquer Time.

  W. H. Auden

  Time, Conquer, Deceiving

  1940 'As I Walked Out One Evening'.

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• You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details.

  Julie Delpy

  Beautiful, Sunset, Details

  "Before Sunset". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• I always feel this pressure of being a strong and independent icon of womanhood, and without making it look my whole life is revolving around some guy. But loving someone, and being loved means so much to me. We always make fun of it and stuff. But isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?

  Julie Delpy

  Strong, Fun, Mean

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• You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.

  Parker Stevenson

  Sunset, Home, Sunrise

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• In headaches and in worry
  Vaguely life leaks away,
  And Time will have his fancy
  To-morrow or today.

  W. H. Auden

  Worry, Fancy, Today

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.75, DEBOLS!LLO

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• Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.

  Richard Linklater

  Memories, Past, Wonderful

  Richard Linklater (2008). “Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays”, p.162, Vintage

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• Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.

  Richard Linklater

  Korea, Sunrise, Individualism

  "You can't hold back the human spirit". Interview With David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

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• Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Flower, Sunshine

  Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.221

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• Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill.

  George Washington Carver

  Teacher, Dark, Sunrise

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• Across the curve of the earth, there are women getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in the twilight before sunrise; there are women rising earlier than men and children to break the ice, to start the stove, to put up the pap, the coffee, the rice, to iron the pants, to braid the hair, to pull the day's water up from the well, to boil water for tea, to wash the children for school, to pull the vegetables and start the walk to market, to run to catch the bus for the work that is paid. I don't know when most women sleep.

  Adrienne Rich

  Running, Children, Twilight

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• Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. At no other time have I so sharp an understanding of what God means to do with me as in these hours of dawn.

  George Washington Carver

  Beautiful, Mean, Understanding

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• The appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer's morning, is most striking even to the few whose unfortunate pursuits of pleasure, or scarcely less unfortunate pursuits of business, cause them to be well acquainted with the scene. There is an air of cold, solitary desolation about the noiseless streets which we are accustomed to see thronged at other times by a busy, eager crowd, and over the quiet, closely-shut buildings, which throughout the day are swarming with life and bustle, that is very impressive.

  Charles Dickens

  Summer, Morning, Air

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Sketches by Boz: Pseud. Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People”, p.55

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• You know, a landscape painter's day is delightful. You get up early, at three o'clock in the morning, before sunrise; you go and sit under a tree; you watch and wait. At first there is nothing much to be seen. Nature looks like a whitish canvas with a few broad outlines faintly sketched in; all is misty, everything quivers in the cool dawn breeze. The sky lights up. The sun has not yet burst through the gauze veil that hides the meadow, the little valley, the hill on the horizon... Ah, a first ray of sunshine!

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Morning, Art, Sunshine

  "Letters of the great artists - from Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, 1963.

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• I can't tell you how many times in the '90s I'd meet somebody, we'd be having a nice time, and they'd sigh and go, 'This is exactly like Before Sunrise.' And I'd have to get up and leave.

  Ethan Hawke

  Nice, Sunrise, Get Up

  "Ethan Hawke: What I've Learned About Life...and Marriage". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. August 16, 2013.

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