110 Daybreak Quotes

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Famous Daybreak Quotes

Sunrise: day's great progenitor. — Emily Dickinson

The morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness. — William Shakespeare

Dawn comes slowly but dusk is rapid. — Alice B. Toklas

Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn. — Robert Breault

In the twilight of the morning, all life silently waits for the sunrise. Sun must rise for the darkness to sink! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

However long the night, the dawn will break. — African Proverbs

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn. — Claude Debussy

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. — Emily Dickinson

Yet even the brightest of sunrises must come to an end. — Cameron Dokey

The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise. - Voltaire

The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise. — Voltaire

The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming. — Al Stewart

There is no night that is NOT defeated by the dawn. — Javier Milei

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up. — Ellen Goodman

We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves. — Leonora Carrington

Short Daybreak Quotes

  • Unconditional love will have the final word in reality. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • I am the dream and the hope of the slave — Maya Angelou
  • Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise. — Maya Angelou
  • It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. — Aristotle
  • He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat. — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work. — Publilius Syrus
  • Don't decide yet," Hephaestus advised. "Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions. — Rick Riordan
  • Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • At daybreak Morn shall come to meIn raiment of the white winds spun. — Madison Cawein
  • Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown. — Paul Celan

Daybreak Image Quotes

Before Sunrise Quotes

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

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

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. - George Washington Carver

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. — George Washington Carver

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

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

When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before any one is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness. — Celia Thaxter

I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times because I thought it would be bad karma to be going to bed as dawn was arriving. — Eric Schmidt

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

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

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

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

Daytime Quotes

The energy in the daytime is so different because everyone is so unhappy and depressed and you can pick up on that energy psychokinetically. So I like to come out at night. Everything's settled, you can see more. — Kevin Gates

I'm up early 'cuz ain't enough light in the daytime — Pimp C

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

I find it so much easier to be creatively free at night. Daytime is for sleeping. Nighttime is the best time for making art. The later at night it gets the further into another world you go. — Mark Ryden

A man commented to his lunch companion: My wife had a funny dream last night. She dreamed she'd married a millionaire. You're lucky, sighed the companion. My wife dreams that in the daytime. — Sam Ewing

Anything could happen when you're daydrinking. Somebody could jerk you off in a truck. You jerk yourself off somewhere. It's daytime! You know, it's like the wolves are out. It's almost like a full moon, but all day long. — Theo Von

We now know that we imprint information during the day. — Matthew Walker

Mental activity in the daytime creates a latent form of habitual thought which again transforms itself at night into various delusory visions sensed by the semi-consciousness. This is called the deceptive and magic-like Bardo of Dream. — Milarepa

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. — Edith Wharton

Sunrise Quotes

I think sunrises are rarer for me, but sunset is my favourite time of day. - Jon Foreman

I think sunrises are rarer for me, but sunset is my favourite time of day. — Jon Foreman

Allow failure to teach you A supreme lesson: Each sunset is the beginning Of a very, very bright And powerful sunrise. — Sri Chinmoy

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them. - William Arthur Ward

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them. — William Arthur Ward

Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again. — Muhammad Ali

Every day a million miracles begin at sunrise! - Eric Jerome Dickey

Every day a million miracles begin at sunrise! — Eric Jerome Dickey

There is nothing more musical than a sunset. - Claude Debussy

There is nothing more musical than a sunset. — Claude Debussy

May every sunrise hold more promise, every moonrise hold more peace. — Anonymous

Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches. — C. S. Lewis

We need to be reminded sometimes that a sunrise last but a few minutes. But its beauty can burn in our hearts eternally. — R. A. Salvatore

The grand show is eternal It is always sunrise somewhere — John Muir

Daylight Quotes

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight. — John Lennon

When you are so full of sorrow that you can't walk, can't cry anymore, think about the green foliage that sparkles after the rain. When the daylight exhausts you, when you hope a final night will cover the world, think about the awakening of a young child. — Omar Khayyam

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world. — Rene Magritte

He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human." — Diogenes

Love is kind of like when you see a fog in the morning, when you wake up before the sun comes out. It's just a little while, and then it burns away... Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality. — Charles Bukowski

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality. - Charles Bukowski

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality. — Charles Bukowski

In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight too unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. — Albert Hofmann

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk. - Stephen King

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk. — Stephen King

In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you — Lucy Maud Montgomery

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon - except when there are going to be fireworks. — Jan Struther

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More Daybreak Quotes

Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird. — Kurt Cobain

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

[On Venice:] Every hour of the day is a miracle of light. In summer with daybreak the rising sun produces such a tender magic on the water that it nearly breaks one's heart. — Peggy Guggenheim

One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed. — Nathaniel Parker Willis

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise. — Maya Angelou

Our negative life situations are essential elements for us to fulfill our intended destiny. However, unless we possess the power of endurance to live through the dark of the night, we will not see the glory of daybreak. — Chin-Ning Chu

An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity — Charles Ives

Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their perfumes. They come with all their scents, they speak of the fields they have left, the rain which has nourished them, the daybreaks they have seen. — Paul Cezanne

But do not look down on even the most minute of things; for with the coming of daybreak, even the tiniest particles of dust in this world sing and dance in the sunlight. — Wang Anyi

At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What breaks in daybreak? Is it the night? Is it the sun, cracked in two by the horizon like an egg, spilling out light? — Margaret Atwood

Cities at daybreak are no one's, and have no names. And I, too, have no name, dawn, the stars growing pale, the train picking up speed. — Adam Zagajewski

If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all. — Zora Neale Hurston

There is a special charm to journeys undertaken before daybreak in hot lands: the air is soft and cool and the coming of dawn reveals a landscape fresh from the night dew. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise. — Maya Angelou

I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

All my life's a circle; Sunrise and sundown; Moon rolls thru the nighttime; Till the daybreak comes around. — Harry Chapin

It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly! — Friedrich Nietzsche

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. — Martin Luther

I don't know who it is who lives or dies, who rests or wakes, but it is your heart that distributes all the graces of the daybreak in my breast. — Pablo Neruda

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light. — Pope John XXIII

[The Return of the Prodigal book] came out of my emotional and spiritual journey during the four months I was gone from Daybreak because of depression. — Henri Nouwen

Unto him who is able to keep us from falling, and lift us from the dark to the bright mountain of hope, from the midnight of desperation to the daybreak of joy, to him be power and authority for ever and ever. — Martin Luther

If your efforts are sometimes greeted with indifference, don't lose heart. The sun puts on a wonderful show at daybreak, yet most of the people in the audience go on sleeping. — Ada Teixeira

When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away,And in a dream as in a fairy barkDrift on and on through the enchanted darkTo purple daybreak--little thought we payTo that sweet bitter world we know by day. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity. — Charles Ives

In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear. — Paul Harris

The Kingdom of grace is nothing but.... the beginning of the Kingdom of glory; the Kingdom of grace is glory in the seed, and the Kingdom of glory is grace in the flower; the Kingdom ofgrace is glory in the daybreak, and the Kingdom of glory is grace in the full meridian; the Kingdom of grace is glory militant, and the Kingdom of glory is grace triumphant.... the Kingdom ofgrace leads to the Kingdom of glory. — Thomas Watson

I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Look at the fate of summer flowers, which blow at daybreak, droop ere even-song. — William Wordsworth

On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun, We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak. — Walt Whitman

Yet, behind the night, Waits for the great unborn, somewhere afar, Some white tremendous daybreak. — Rupert Brooke

I've been so blessed and so lucky to be a part of great shows like 'Chuck' and projects 'Daybreak.' — Ryan McPartlin

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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