"No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn."
Dawn quotes
Dawn
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"When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all."
"As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that she became. But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abbys of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it. Though she tried to forget it, the nothingness would visit her periodically - on a lonely rainy afternoon, or at dawn when she woke up from a nightmare. What she needed at such times was to be held by someone, anyone."
"Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God."
"There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn."
"Yes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read."
"Unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world. You and I create the world by the vibrations that we offer to it. If we can invoke peace and then offer it to somebody else, we will see how peace expands from one to two persons, and gradually to the world at large. Peace will come about in the world from the perfection of individuals. If you have peace, I have peace, he has peace, and she has peace, then automatically universal peace will dawn."
"Our eternal message of hope is that dawn will come."
"I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps."
"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."
"No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn."
"I've always like the time before dawn because there's no one around to remind me who I'm supposed to be, so it's easier to remember who I am."
"Show him every dawn & read to him endlessly."
"The sky sinks in the morning, this fact has been insufficiently observed."
"Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close: — then let every one of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others — some goodly strength or knowledge gained for yourselves."
"sometimes i get up at dawn, and even my soul is wet."
"I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see."
"Behind the veil of each night, there is a smilling dawn."
"Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste."
"The Stars are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing-Oh, make haste!"
"It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn."