Night Quote by George William Russell Download Open image “Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.” — George William Russell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hunter Followed Night Timid Fawn Twilight Twilight Timid Went Glimmering
O Twilight! Spirit that dost render birth To dim enchantments; melting heaven with earth, Leaving on craggy hills and running streams A softness like… — Caroline Norton Copy Share Image
Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Night is done, gone the moon, gone the stars From the skies. Fades the black of night Comes the morn with rosy light. Fold… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
The night was dark, and a cold wind blew, driving the clouds, furiously and fast, before it. There was one black, gloomy mass that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The moon grew plump and pale as a peeled apple, waned into the passing nights, then showed itself again as a thin silver crescent… — James Carlos Blake Copy Share Image
I heard through the nightThe rush and the clamour;The pulse of the fightLike blows of Thor's hammer;The pattering flightOf the leaves, and the anguishedMoan… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Just then, down through the last glimmer of twilight, stepping high and free, like a cloud, a moth, a ghost in the shape of… — Elyne Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The autumn twilight turned into deep and early night as they walked. Tristran could smell the distant winter on the air--a mixture of night-mist… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“But what after all is one night? A short space, especially when the darkness dims so soon, and so soon a bird sings, a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Water began to drip steadily through the dormer window. Outside, in the treacherous city, a thaw had come, giving the streets the unreliable consistency… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“But what after all is one night? A short space, especially when the darkness dims so soon, and so soon a bird sings, a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The world can only be free when men are content in themselves and each draws from his own fountain. — George William Russell Copy Share Image
The victors in great wars have always been spiritually defeated by the conquered. — George William Russell Copy Share Image
We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness… — George William Russell Copy Share Image
We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion… — George William Russell Copy Share Image
There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn. — George William Russell Copy Share Image
Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee… — George William Russell Copy Share Image
We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity. — George William Russell Copy Share Image
Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side. — George William Russell Copy Share Image
We are tired who follow after fantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter stain our hearts with richest dyes. — George William Russell Copy Share Image
When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to… — George William Russell Copy Share Image
I don't drink much anymore, but when I traveled with Frank Sinatra, God rest his soul, I used to drink like I could do… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
Don’t you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you’ve made, every hurt you’ve received, every bit of meanness you’ve… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are. — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't like working all hours of the night and having an unreliable working pattern. — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
When man of slender visits you / Nothing on earth that one can do / In well he’ll hide, or watery hole / And… — Jack Goldstein Copy Share Image
Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“After nine nights must come ten and every desperate meeting only leaves you desperate for another. There is never enough to eat, never enough… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image