Evening Quotes
1181 Evening quotes by 890 unique authors
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Do you believe that the God of Jesus loves you beyond worthiness and unworthiness, beyond fidelity and infidelity—that he loves you in the morning sun…
— Brennan Manning
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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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The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also…
— Christopher Isherwood
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And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers we met on…
— André Aciman
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Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often…
— Alain de Botton
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A date, "often a boring thing you have to memorize in history class," but in this case, "an offer of a n evening of blisteringly…
— Cassandra Clare
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I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps…
— Charles Dickens
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He loves me, and I reward his love by forcing on him something he hates. In the evening, after we dance, he rarely returns to…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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Marya Morevna, we are better at this than you are. We can hold two terrible ideas at once in our hearts. Never have your folk…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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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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It took my breath away, that evening. If you've ever dreamed that you walked into your best-loved book or film or TV program, then maybe…
— Tana French
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I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few obvious things that…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.
— Raymond Chandler
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Once upon a time, this moment - this last light of the evening the day before the race - was the best moment of the…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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The sky grew darker and the moon rose higher as the evening wore on. and without either or them being conscious of it, they began…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Tessa: "A little girl robbed you?" Will: "Actually, she wasn't a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget in a dress…
— Cassandra Clare
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The most remarkable thing about him were his eyes. They were laughing eyes, at once both joyous and tender: they were the radiant pale blue…
— Cassandra Clare
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Do you know what a pearl is and what an opal is? My soul when you came sauntering to me first through those sweet summer…
— James Joyce
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It’s funny, but I was just thinking I wouldn’t mind a repeat of that boring evening when we elapsed to 1953,” said Gideon. “Just you…
— Kerstin Gier
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Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that she would find…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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Gene told me the next day that I got it wrong. But he was not in a taxi, after an evening of total sensory overload,…
— Graeme Simsion
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The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down…
— William Wordsworth
Who Wrote These Evening Quotes
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