Dusk Quotes

143 quotes by 129 authors

Day offers two equally necessary sacraments - the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee blesses and in the evening… — Michael Foley
I know something of shame...How can we not all feel it? We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own adventure… — Helen Simonson
Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where… — Ivan Turgenev
I have heard that if you pull a bent breath through the second hole of a harmonica tuned to the key of Georgia while a… — Buddy Wakefield
She was coming. I watched the slight figure grow out of the dusk between the trees, and the darkness in which I had walked of… — Mary Johnston
What is Music? How do you define it? Music is a calm moonlit night, the rustle of leaves in Summer. Music is the far off… — Sergei Rachmaninoff
If... we choose death rather than true life, God does not take away the power that He gave us. And not only does He not… — Gregory Palamas
Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it… — Mary Hunter Austin
They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and exchange endearments, but… — Victor Hugo
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, and… — Keith Miller
There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full all the small,… — Agnes Sligh Turnbull
Blessed is he who like Joshua (cf. Josh. 10:12-13) keeps the Sun of righteousness from setting in himself throughout the whole day of his present… — Maximus the Confessor
I like the fog that creeps over the whole city every night about five, and the warm protective feeling it gives...and lights of San Francisco… — Irene Dunne
Looking about I see no cherry blossoms And no crimson leaves A straw-thatched hut by a bay In the autumn dusk. — Fujiwara no Teika
A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the… — John Singer Sargent
My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when… — Antonio Porchia
In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound… — Frederick Buechner
Too much! Wait till you have lived here longer. Look down the valley! See the cloud of a hundred chimneys that overshadows it! I tell… — Arthur Conan Doyle
O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk. — James Whitcomb Riley
Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then… — John B. Tabb

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