Twilight Quotes

431 quotes by 259 authors

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either. — Henry Ward Beecher
The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see but dimly during… — Annie Besant
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. — Albert Camus
All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque… — Carl von Clausewitz
The great uncertainty of all data in war is because all action, to a certain extent, planned in a mere twilight - like the effect… — Carl von Clausewitz
The harvest moon has no innocence, like the slim quarter moon of a spring twilight, nor has it the silver penny brilliance of the moon… — Donald C. Peattie
Just because they broke the law doesn't mean they're condemned forever to a twilight status ... I believe that most Americans feel that for these… — John McCain
Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their… — John Milton
I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. The… — Douglas MacArthur
And from the phlox and mignonette Rich attars drift on every hand; And when star-vestured twilight comes The pale moths weave a saraband. And crickets… — Clinton Scollard
Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening! — J.R.R. Tolkien
For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the sweetest, ripest hour… — John Burroughs
This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows and solidities are… — George Henry Lewes
The twilight that surrounds the border-land of old romance. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you look at life as a whole, we have to admit life's good where we live. But in an evil Twilight Zone kind of… — Douglas Coupland
We must appreciate the dignity of life in all its seasons, even the path of the elderly in the twilight of their years, to work… — George W. Bush
You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?' — Michael Gove
It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility.… — Jacki Weaver

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