Dusk Quotes
143 quotes by 129 authors
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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
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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
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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
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The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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From dawn to dusk, winter to spring, summer & autumn; the contrasts of nature refresh the mind & renew our sense of balance
— Phil Harding
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
— Cesare Pavese
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He who is neither human nor demon is not the dawn nor the dusk.
— Kohta Hirano
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No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon, No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day, . . . . . . No road,…
— Thomas Hood
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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
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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
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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
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The dusk was performing its customary intransitive operation of "gathering".
— Flann O'Brien
Who Wrote These Dusk Quotes
129 authors contributed a total of 143 Dusk Quotes, led by these top contributors: