Every day it will be the same thing: at dusk I begin to…

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“The anaesthetic effect of habit being destroyed, I would begin to think - and to feel - such melancholy things.”

— Marcel Proust

“Ursula is something I will never feel again: she is Melancholy, cut into the soul and flesh.”

— Luther Blissett

She had one of those charming faces which, according to the angle from which you see them, look either melancholy or impertinent. Her eyes…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“There's a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the night's.”

— Ed Gorman

There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full all the…

— Agnes Sligh Turnbull

“Oh, I could let the world go by, Its loud new wonders and its wars, BUt how will I give up the sky When…

— Sara Teasdale

The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn,…

— Keith Miller

“Friday dusk becomes Friday evening. The park is feverish with life. A young Asian man screams into his mobile phone, not stopping to listen:…

— Craig Stone

The past--the wild charge at the head of his men up San Juan Hill; the first years of his marriage when he worked late…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of…

— Mary Hunter Austin

“Sophie picked her way through the forest, stepping over tree roots, and pushing aside low-lying branches, letting them snap back behind her with reckless…

— Julia Quinn

Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a…

— Bob Feller

I have heard that if you pull a bent breath through the second hole of a harmonica tuned to the key of Georgia while…

— Buddy Wakefield