Dusk Quotes

“We’ve chased the dawn, Anastasia, now the dusk.”

— E.L. James

Dawn comes slowly but dusk is rapid.

— Alice B. Toklas

“Dusk falls. There is nothing gentle about the sky.”

— Juan Ramón Jiménez

I just write from dawn to dusk.

— Alexandre Desplat

I came home at dusk with my ears ringing from the quiet.

— Tim Winton

The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences.

— Alan Moore

I can catch catfish from dusk till dawn.

— Hank Williams Jr

“Like Solzhenitsyn, I shall return, one bright dusk.”

— David Mitchell

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

— William Arthur Ward

“Every day it will be the same thing: at dusk I begin to feel melancholy and pensive.”

— Clarice Lispector

Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Standing still at dusk Listen . . . in far distances The song of froglings!”

— Buson

My body, mind and inspirations, all begins to take a race, Rays of dusk moonlight, rolls down on your elegant face

— Ritu Ghatourey

Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.

— D.J. Cotrona

“I have seen your darkest nights and brightest days and I want you to know that I will be here forever loving…

— Atticus Poetry

True spiritual life depends not on probing our feelings and thoughts from dawn to dusk but on 'looking off' to the Savior!

— Watchman Nee

“The seasons bring the flower again, And bring the firstling to the flock; And in the dusk of thee the clock Beats…

— Lord Tennyson

When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' but I actually…

— Madison Davenport

Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see A…

— D. H. Lawrence

Apparently my street has a leaf blower gang who tag team all day, so the sounds of the leaf blower are forever…

— Bob Saget

No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon, No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day, . . . . .…

— Thomas Hood

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

— Mary Hunter Austin

At dusk the sunset is beautifully bright; at year's end the tangerines are even more fragrant. Therefore, at the end of their…

— Zicheng Hong

“Change should be gradual. Without spring and fall, summer and winter would be too harsh; without dawn and dusk, day and night…

— Vinita Kinra

I sit cross-legged on the rock The valleys and streams are cold and damp Sitting quietly is beautiful The cliffs are lost…

— Hanshan

For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

He fell in love with Manhattan's skyline, like a first-time brothel guest falling for a seasoned professional. He mused over her reflections…

— Arthur Phillips

Blessed is he who like Joshua (cf. Josh. 10:12-13) keeps the Sun of righteousness from setting in himself throughout the whole day…

— Maximus the Confessor

And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer. The sad truth is that what I could recall in five…

— Haruki Murakami

“Bosch knew the dawn had nothing on the dusk. Dawn always came up ugly, as if the sun was clumsy and in…

— Michael Connelly

Heat lingers As days are still long; Early mornings are cool While autumn is still young. Dew on the lotus Scatters pure…

— Bai Juyi

“When by me in the dusk my child sits down I am myself. Simon, if it’s that loose, let me wiggle it…

— John Berryman

“Sometimes after dinner, he would walk into the woods that began behind the house. He would stretch down on the ground on…

— Ayn Rand

“Season late, day late, sun just down, and the sky Cold gunmetal but with a wash of live rose, and she, From…

— Robert Penn Warren

“Odd, the words: ‘while away the time’. How to hold it fast the harder thing. Who is not fearful: where is there…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Speaking of birthdays, our firstborn [recently turned 2]. As parents sometimes fondly do, we reminisced a bit about his early days on…

— Malcolm Forbes

My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The moon went slowly down in loveliness; she departed into the depth of the horizon, and long veil-like shadows crept up the…

— H. Rider Haggard

“In winter, the air is clear enough to drink, and your eyes can travel many hundreds of miles until they reach the…

— Anuradha Roy

“The fall of dusk upon the Egyptian scene is an unforgettable event, an event of unearthly beauty. Everything is transformed in colour…

— Paul Brunton