“A new dawn has broken, has it not?”

“The day of the android has dawned.”

Brian W. Aldiss (1925–2017) British science fiction author

“For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.”

Alan Paton book Cry, the Beloved Country

“As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.”

David Nicholls book Starter for Ten

“The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn.”

H. G. Wells book The Discovery of the Future

“Comrades. Our labour has ended, the armed struggle has begun... The invincible flames of the reovlution will glow, turning to lead and steel... There will be a great rupture and wel will be the makers of the new dawn ... We shall convert the black fire into red and the red into pure light.”

Abimael Guzmán (1934–2021) Peruvian communist

“War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war.”

Robert Aumann (1930) Israeli-American mathematician

“For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter

“if the subject of art
will be a broken jug
a small broken soul
with a great self-pity

what will remain of us
will be like tears of lovers
in a small dirty hotel
when wallpapers dawn”

Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998) Polish writer

“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath