Dusk Quotes

143 quotes by 129 authors

I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature… — David Attenborough
Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for… — Alan Bennett
A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where… — John Steinbeck
The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
From dawn to dusk, winter to spring, summer & autumn; the contrasts of nature refresh the mind & renew our sense of balance — Phil Harding
Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn, and to sing at dusk, was to… — Terry Tempest Williams
Death is only an old door Set in a garden wall; On quiet hinges it gives, at dusk When the thrushes call. Along the lintel… — Nancy Byrd Turner
Unnoticed, the passage has occurred; as I brood, autumn dusk dewdrops fall on my pillow. The voices of insects and the deer by the fence,… — Princess Shikishi
I went out into the garden in the morning dusk, When sorrow enveloped me like a cloud; And the breeze brought to my nostril the… — Moses ibn Ezra
The prey of fear, he, always curtailed, extinguished, thwarted by the dusk, work partly done, says to the alternating blaze, "Again the sun! anew each… — Marianne Moore
Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights… — Kay Granger
I was a shadow among shadows brooding over the fate of other shadows that I alone strove to summon up out of the all-pervading dusk. — Loren Eiseley
Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors of… — Carol Muske-Dukes
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come. — Cesare Pavese
He who is neither human nor demon is not the dawn nor the dusk. — Kohta Hirano
No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon, No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day, . . . . . . No road,… — Thomas Hood
Spring scarce had greener fields to show than these Of mid September; through the still warm noon The rivulets ripple forth a gladder tune Than… — Edward Dowden
Speaking of birthdays, our firstborn [recently turned 2]. As parents sometimes fondly do, we reminisced a bit about his early days on earth-the excitement, the… — Malcolm Forbes
I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing. — Winston Churchill
The dusk was performing its customary intransitive operation of "gathering". — Flann O'Brien

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