Evening Quotes

1181 Evening quotes by 890 unique authors

You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house-- , and you almost stepped… — Rainer Maria Rilke
This new world was already turning her into a cabbagehead, and she'd only been a part of it for an evening — Sarah MacLean
A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if… — Henry David Thoreau
Most people, if they were generous, were so because they thought life was short and that one must make the most of it. Sid Baxter… — Jennifer Donnelly
...but we were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure... — Anthony Burgess
Rohan, one of us is an unmarried man with superior mathematical abilities and no prospects for the evening. The other is a confirmed lecher in… — Lisa Kleypas
That evening, Dudley paraded around the living room for the family in his brand new uniform...As he looked at Dudley in his new knickerbockers, Uncle… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Wonder what it’s like to have a peaceful life,” Ron sighed, as evening after evening they struggled through all the extra homework they were getting. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed… — David Mitchell
Adieu, Lord Dain,” she answered without turning her head. “Have a pleasant evening with your cows.” Cows? She was merely trying to provoke him, Dain… — Loretta Chase
We have about three hours of homework a night, and our evening study period is only two hours, so if you want to spend the… — Holly Black
But to Sam the evening deepened to darkness as he stood at the Haven; and as he looked at the grey sea he saw only… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The sound universe is also spectacular around here. In the evenings there's a cricket orchestra with frogs providing the bass line. In the dead of… — Elizabeth Gilbert
And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening — E E Cummings
Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me — Langston Hughes
When you go, if you go, And I should want to die, there's nothing I'd be saved by more than the time you fell asleep… — Edwin Morgan
I had such plans for this evening. The pursuit of blind drunkenness and wayward women was my goal. But alas, it was not to be.… — Cassandra Clare
It is the evening that questions thus from within me. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a… — Virginia Woolf
So you're not going to speak tonight," Tessa said. "At all." "Not unless you instruct me to," said Will. "This evening sounds as if it… — Cassandra Clare
All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn… — Herman Melville
Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life. — Charles Bukowski
Beauty is momentary in the mind -- The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's… — Wallace Stevens

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