Dusk Quotes
143 quotes by 127 authors
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It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.
— Honore de Balzac
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That evening, rowing on the quiet river as sunset turned to dusk, I saw an occasional smoky smudge on the towpath, always slightly ahead of…
— Deborah Harkness
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It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron…
— Don DeLillo
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Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child…
— Jean-Dominique Bauby
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And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer. The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too…
— Haruki Murakami
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... But I'm annoying you to no purpose with my arguments. A person whose house is only open on the west can't see the sun…
— Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
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How heron comes It is a negligence of the mind not to notice how at dusk heron comes to the pond and stands there in…
— Mary Oliver
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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 into…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.
— Dean Koontz
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Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom…
— A. S. Byatt
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I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on, The windows and the stars illumined, one by one, The rivers of dark…
— Charles Baudelaire
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I'm so glad you're back. We need you here. I mean...Burnett's okay, but...he's not you." Holiday arched a brow. "I hear he wasn't even himself…
— C.C. Hunter
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Farewell sweet earth and northern sky, for ever blest, since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read…
— George R. R. Martin
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In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns…
— Madeline Miller
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I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be whirled away with…
— Isak Dinesen
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People who walk across dark bridges, past saints, with dim, small lights. Clouds which move across gray skies past churches with towers darkened in the…
— Franz Kafka
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You said I was your number-one pick." "And you are. In our hearts. Alphabetically, though, Dusk comes before you.
— Derek Landy
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I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write of sin. You’re…
— Neil Gaiman
Who Wrote These Dusk Quotes
127 authors contributed a total of 143 Dusk Quotes, led by these top contributors: