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Quotes About Evening

Le soleil, plus bas, semblait saigner.
~ Guy de Maupassant
All that sultry May evening I danced physically with Christie, but in spirit with Tina. That special duality of the Davenports, of being able to haunt in absence, was so manifestly strong that several times I only saved myself by the sheerest miracle from calling the girl in the pale primrose dress by the wrong name.
~ H.E. Bates
Beautiful evening, ain't it?' Pop said. Once again, caught in his own web of enchantment, he turned to stare at an evening distilled now into even deeper gold by the lower angle of light falling across still seas of buttercups and long-curled milky waves of may.
~ H.E. Bates
In the evening I asked old people in Arkham about the blasted heath, and what was meant by that phrase "strange days" which so many evasively muttered.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
The sun was now in its death throes, bruising the sky a coiling purple and orange.
~ Harlan Coben
Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking them out of the brown paper sack and handling them cautiously as if they were precious stones. There was envy when we saw sacks with more in them than we had.
~ Paul Engle
Out of this same light, out of the central mind, We make a dwelling in the evening air, In which being there together is enough.
~ Wallace Stevens
It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.
~ Henry James
the loneliest place to be is a hotel room in a big city in early evening.
~ Willa Gibbs
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...
~ Hermann Hesse
Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
~ Langston Hughes
In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord.
~ Van Morrison
What are you cooking this night, wife?" One of the crepes picked that moment to dislodge itself from the ceiling. It landed at her feet with a plop as if on cue. "Crepes." She kept a straight face and tried to look like this was the normal way to make crepes.
~ Shelly Thacker
One evening a little while back, I had a craving for ice cream, so I went by myself to a nearby convenience store to buy some. My security detail was with me, but the reporters assigned to cover me didn't notice, and it seems it was a major incident.
~ Shinzo Abe
Before the Battle: Music of whispering trees Hushed by the broad-winged breeze Where shaken water gleams; And evening radiance falling With reedy bird-notes calling. O bear me safe through dark, you low-voiced streams. I have no need to pray That fear may pass away; I scorn the growl and rumble of the fight That summons me from cool Silence of marsh and pool, And yellow lilies islanded in light. O river of stars and shadows, lead me through the night.
~ Siegfried Sassoon
One evening I asked whether he [Rivers] thought I was suffering from shell-shock. 'Certainly not,' he replied. 'What have I got then?' 'Well, you appear to be suffering from an anti-war complex.
~ Siegfried Sassoon
One evening he felt like hearing people laugh
~ Simone Schwarz-Bart
What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Roamin' in the Gloamin'.
~ Sir Harry Lauder
Thou fair-hair'd angel of the evening, Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown Put on, and smile upon our evening bed!
~ William Blake
As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love thee, my Friend.
~ Henry David Thoreau
In the evening, when we were alone like that, Uncle Willie didn't stutter or shake or give any indication that he had an affliction. It seemed that the peace of a day's ending was an assurance that the covenant God made with children, Negroes and the crippled was still in effect.
~ Maya Angelou
north toward Yorkville. Alana tore her gaze from the window, by some instinct sure Trevor had been watching her. But when she looked at him, his head was buried in the evening copy of the Chronicle as he analyzed the stock-market section. The front page, emblazoned with the details of their wedding
~ Meagan McKinney
Maar de zeep heeft de geuren alleen bedekt, en na een poosje zijn ze er weer, zwak, versmolten tot een enkele geur van de dag en het werk, de geur van het einde van de dag en het werk, de geur van de avond, van de thuiskomst en het thuiszijn. (172)
~ Bernhard Schlink