Sunrise Sayings and Quotes

Is there anything more beautiful than a sunrise? The display of orange and pink across the sky is enough to make even the heaviest sleepers want to be an early riser. Below you’ll find a collection of wise and insightful sunrise quotes.

Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone's day. Jhiess Krieg
Each sunrise brings a new day with new hopes for a new beginning. Debasish Mridha
Each new day, a gift to be opened, sunrise slowly unties it's ribbon of hope. Anonymous
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. Victor Hugo
O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth. Roman Payne
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. George Washington Carver
Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion. George Grey
Truly, were I every evening to depict sunrise, and every morning to see it, still I should cry, like the children, Once more, once more! Jean Paul Friedrich
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, pain and hunger. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you'll find it there. Robb Sagendorph
Storms probably exist only because after them we can have a sunrise. Tove Jansson
Sunrise makes our mornings beautiful, but the words of GOD strengthen us & make our lives more meaningful. Smile & enjoy life! Azgraybebly Josland
Sunrise looks spectacular in the nature; sunrise looks spectacular in the photos; sunrise looks spectacular in our dreams; sunrise looks spectacular in the paintings, because it really is spectacular! Mehmet Murat ildan
I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it. Catherine Opie
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise. William Blake
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
Not everyone was privileged to see another sunrise like you did, so before you start complaining remember that the breath of life isn't for sale. Gugu Mona
The stillness of the early morning scene enables me to take in and enjoy many things which pass me by during the bustle of the day. First, there are the scents, which seem even more generous with their offerings than they are in the evening. Rosemary Verey
Like the durability of the sun, love gives and gives with no diminution of its supply. John Marks Templeton
The sun can rise anytime in your dreams. And there night may fall anytime as well. Munia Khan
Standing in the river watching to sunrise and sunset is to know heavenly bliss and to shed a tear into the river you become the river and will share in all its awe and glory. Anthony Rosario Wagner
To see the sunrise every morning is a true gift that God gives us. Anthony Rosario Wagner
Every morning when you see the sunrise you thank the Lord and proudly say 'Today I am the master of my own ability today's going to be a beautiful prosperous day'. Anthony Rosario Wagner
I want out of this valley of thunder and darkness / and I want to see the sunrise once again in the calm / of another place and time when I am surrounded / by elements of peace and hope that will touch me ever so softly. Corbin Lee Cherry
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. Ansel Adams
How beautiful is the sunrise! when the golden beams of day shoot upwards in the morning sky, and the clouds of night roll away before the brightness of the dawning. James Yeames
Childhood and youth are to life like sunrise and morning. We cannot always be sure that a bright sunrise will be followed by a bright day. James Yeames
The path of the just is as the shining light which shineth more and more unto the perfect day. James Yeames
The final flood of glory wells up in the eastern skies, and all around him the higher buildings catch here and there a swift golden gleam: the sunrise is declared; there is a new day born for the sons and daughters of men. William Black
The action of the moon, then, is dependent on the sun's position relatively to the equator (or the earth's position in its orbit), and on the position of the moon relatively to sunrise and sunset. Sir Norman Lockyer