Dawn Quotes

• The morning steals upon the night,
  Melting the darkness.

  William Shakespeare

  Morning, Night, Darkness

  William Shakespeare, Aaron Augustus MORGAN (1860). “The Mind of Shakspeare, as Exhibited in His Works. By the Rev. A. A. Morgan”, p.162

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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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• Night never had the last word. The dawn is always invincible.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Friends, Encouraging, Uplifting

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• For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Nature, Mind, Environment

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sunset, New Day, Promise

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  When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

  Jim Rohn

  Moving On, Famous Inspirational, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Nov 18, 2014

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• Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.

  Alfred Jarry

  Light, World, Another World

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• I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.

  Ken Wilber

  Shining, Today, Taste

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition”, p.550, Shambhala Publications

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• Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.

  Rene Daumal

  Inspirational, Nature, Morning

  "Poetry Black, Poetry White". Fontaine (Paris), No. 19-20, March/April 1942.

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• Our eternal message of hope is that dawn will come.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Sunrise, Messages, Mental Health

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.66, Beacon Press

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• Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

  John Ruskin

  Sunset, New Beginnings, Sunrise

  John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Art”, p.97, John Ruskin

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• Winter dawn is the color of metal,
  The trees stiffen into place like burnt nerves.

  Sylvia Plath

  Winter, Color, Tree

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.133, Faber & Faber

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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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• No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God.

  Rumi

  Soul, Wake Up, Veils

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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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• For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud - a rainbow... For each shadow - the sun... For each parting - sweet memories when sorrow is done.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Memories, Twilight

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• Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

  Anne Lamott

  Inspiring, Hope, Giving Up

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.23, Anchor

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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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• In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a shining dawn.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spring, Heart, Winter

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• Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste.

  J. K. Rowling

  Night, Haste, Midnight

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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 ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

  John Muir

  Life, Time, Nature

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• 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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• 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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