Best Evenings Quotations
144 Evenings quotes by 133 unique authors
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Girls, there are poets who learn from you to say, what you, in your aloneness, are; and they learn through you to live distantness, as…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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The evenings grew longer; kitchen windows stayed open after dinner and peepers could be heard in the marsh. Isabelle, stepping out to sweep her porch…
— Elizabeth Strout
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She spoke of evenings in the country making popcorn on the porch. Once this would have gladdened my heart but because her heart was not…
— Jack Kerouac
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Witch Baby wanted to ask Ping how to find her Jah-Love angel. She knew Raphael was not him, even though Raphael had the right eyes…
— Francesca Lia Block
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This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and…
— Benjamin Franklin
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On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by…
— Gustave Flaubert
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I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company.
— Jane Goodall
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...some people might think our lives dull and uneventful, but it does not seem so to us. ...it is not travel and adventure that make…
— D.E. Stevenson
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Under the plan of heaven, the husband and the wife walk side by side as companions, neither one ahead of the other, but a daughter…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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She wished she had a little yellow house of her own, with a flower box full of real flowers and herbs – pansies and rosemary…
— Francesca Lia Block
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In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings...
— David Bowie
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But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I've changed my ways a little, I cannot now Run with you in the evenings along the shore, Except in a kind of dream, and…
— Robinson Jeffers
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It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is…
— Daniel Handler
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I consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help us to become poets or scientists, to understand the…
— Jose Saramago
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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
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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
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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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Me, when I'm utterly exhausted by it all, when my skin breaks out, on those lonely evenings when I call my friends again and again…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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...and our footsteps rang and echoed till it sounded like the room was full of dancers, the house calling up all the people who had…
— Tana French
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An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead…
— Daniel Handler
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On the blue summer evenings, I will go along the paths, And walk over the short grass, as I am pricked by the wheat: Daydreaming…
— Arthur Rimbaud
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You will remember this when all else fades, this moment, here, together, by this well. There will be certain days, and certain nights, you’ll feel…
— John Banville
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