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Quotes About Evening

The thick lemony honeysuckle, climbing from the earthroot to your window, will open more beautiful blossoms to the evening;
~ Robert Lowell
After a spent day, I walked back in a fever. The whole way home the sun touched my cheeks. The blissful evening glow spread across the meadows and I called this light the blood I shed. My hot burning blood lay consoling the entire world. So I walked with pride-- Now that all was tilled. I didn't know what was happening, I leaned against a fence post, in my blood that covered the meadows near and far.
~ Robert Walser
Praise the day at evening, a woman on her pyre, A weapon after it's tried, a maiden at her wedding, Ice after it's crossed, ale after it's drunk.
~ Robin Artisson
Don't let's spoil the evening,' Ewing said quickly, before Tim had time to speak.
~ Robin Maugham
Just promise us—for this evening—that you won't try to sacrifice yourself to your stubborn idea of justice to a Norman king. No sacrifices till you've had at least one good night's sleep, and something to eat.
~ Robin McKinley
to give you a second wind for a great evening. You'll beat the exhaustion most people feel after work, re-energize your willpower batteries so you improve your evening choices and even find your cravings for sugar in the nighttime are significantly lower.
~ Robin S. Sharma
Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?' A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful.' You enjoy this duty?' He nodded. I am writing a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity. I work on those parts down here.
~ Roger Zelazny
I took Jack his slippers this evening and lay at his feet before a roaring fire while he smoked his pipe, sipped sherry, and read the newspaper. He read aloud everything involving killings, arsons, mutilations, grave robberies, church desecrations, and unusual thefts. It is very pleasant just being domestic sometimes.
~ Roger Zelazny
Soon the evening gloom would materialize, infect the fibre-filled air, drape itself over her bed, depress her from now till morning.
~ Rohinton Mistry
In the code of the Japanese haiku, there must always be a word which refers back to the time of day and to the year; this is the *kigo* the season word. Amorous notation notation retains the *kigo*that faint allusion to the rain, to the evening, to the light, to everything that envelops, diffuses.
~ Roland Barthes
I don't have the gift to aptly describe the rest of that evening, except to say it was a Christmas Eve beyond all gasping wishes
~ Leif Enger
Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, Beautiful, beautiful Soup!
~ Lewis Carroll
Crepuscular
~ Libba Bray
away from the window and the night descending upon Bakersville's streets.
~ Lisa Gardner
We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The night stank and was loud with flies.
~ Aldous Huxley
Until the last glimmer of daylight.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Isabel observed an etiquette of the telephone: a call before eight in the morning was an emergency; between eight and nine it was an intrusion; thereafter calls could be made until ten in the evening, although anything after nine-thirty required an apology for the disturbance. After ten one was into emergency time again.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
It was a warm evening, at least by the standards applied in Scotland, where summer is sometimes no more than a promise, an aspiration
~ Alexander McCall Smith
I love a friendly chat and a friendly glass of wine during the evening - the time they call, for some accountable reason, 'between dog and wolf'.
~ Alexander Pushkin
En ook van jullie, jonge schonen, Die huiswaarts rijdt des avonds laat In koetsjes die hun driestheid tonen In onze Peterburgse straat, Wou mijn Jevgeni niets meer horen. Het feesten had hij afgezworen, Hij sloot zich op in huis, hij nam Verveeld een pen en was van plan Te schrijven - doch, hoe graag hij wilde, Nooit hield hem arbeid lang geboeid; Niets is er uit zijn pen gevloeid
~ Alexander Pushkin
the sun set . . . with guillotine-like speed this close to the equator.
~ Doug Stanton
a chilled bottle of red wine.
~ Douglas E. Richards
One Saturday evening in 2018 Vox's David Roberts was spending his time happily auditioning for the committee for public virtue on Twitter.
~ Douglas Murray