270 Quotes About Dawn

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.

My mother's right. Home for us doesn't have to be a fixed place. I find it in slots of time, in slants of light. I feel it closest at dawn when night and day meld and mingle awhile before they drift apart.

I don’t sleepI am friends with time who passes by in front of my open eyesThe clock can go for a long time, to my surpriseI am familiar with the dark yet light blue of the sky at dawnI lay there in my bed, waiting, wishing, for thesweet release but it doesn’t comeEveryone is asleep and I hear every breath and every snoreIt can be a very interesting thing or such a boreI don’t sleep

The dawn is your enemy.

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

...before the dawn I leave the night behind meand before my heart I let you leave me behind.- from the poem 'Behind

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.

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.

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