Dawn Quotes - Page 3

• When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

  Victor Hugo

  Birthday, Time, Positive Thinking

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.905, Wordsworth Editions

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• The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

  H. G. Wells

  Twilight, Past, Has Beens

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• [on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

  Claude Debussy

  Beautiful, Sunset, Sunrise

  Time Magazine, December 7, 1953.

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• A lot of young girls together is a romantic secret thing like the first sight of wild ducks at dawn.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Girl, Sight, Ducks

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.217, New Directions Publishing

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• Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspiring, Education, Patriotic

  Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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• Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Faith

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.585, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Magic, indeed, is all around us, in stones, flowers, stars, the dawn wind and the sunset cloud; all we need is the ability to see and understand.

  Doreen Valiente

  Stars, Flower, Sunset

  Doreen Valiente (2018). “Natural Magic”, p.10, The Crowood Press

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• You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

  Cameron Diaz

  Buddhist, Silence, Sunrise

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• How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Romantic

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• 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

  Philosophical, Taken, Sunset

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.

  Robert Breault

  Morning, Night, Feelings

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• Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Morning, Sleep, Insomnia

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.49, University of Georgia Press

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• Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Death, Night

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• Oft when the white, still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart, I have felt it like a glory in my heart.

  Edwin Markham

  Heart, Sky, White

  Edwin Markham (1899). “The Man with the Hoe: And Other Poems”, W. Briggs ; New York : Doubleday & McClure Company

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• What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mind, Wish, Might

  Leo Tolstoy (2009). “Family Happiness: Stories”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn.

  Winston Churchill

  Good Night, Morning, War

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.363, Da Capo Press

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• No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.

  Jim Morrison

  Inspirational, Forgiving, Rewards

  "Song: 'The Wasp (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)'". 1971.

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• They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.

  Bobby Sands

  Freedom, Heart, Army

  Bobby Sands (1998). “Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison”, Mercier PressLtd

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• We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Optimistic, Heartache

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.59, Courier Corporation

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• Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

  Walter Scott

  Motivational, Hope, Expectations

  Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott”, p.210

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• The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Good Morning, Stars, Eye

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• But He is risen, a later star of dawn.

  William Wordsworth

  Stars, He Is Risen, Risen

  William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.109

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• The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,
  Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Clouds, Light

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1851). “The dramatic works of William Shakspeare...: embracing a life of the poet, and notes, original and selected...”, p.175

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• Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.

  Oscar Wilde

  Degrees, Watches, Veils

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.109, Oxford University Press on Demand

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