Quotes About Evening
He noticed, without understanding, how the flames were visible now against the dull light. Evening was come, not with calm beauty but with the threat of violence
~ William Golding
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The sun in the west was a drop of burning gold that slid nearer and nearer the sill of the world.
~ William Golding
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The sun in the west was a drop of burning gold that slid nearer and nearer the sill of the world. All at once they were aware of the evening as the end of light and warmth.
~ William Golding
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Comme le ciel est beau ce soir ! On dirait une mer violette, sur une mer rouge sur une mer bleue. Et les maisons : des barques qui s'endorment au fond du port. Mais le soleil est déjà couché. Il commence à faire froid. Il faut que je rentre chez moi.
~ Chihiro Iwasaki
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Dark came early and stayed full of lights and the shouts of children.
~ China Mieville
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I suppose we ought to be getting home, in any case." "Oh god, is it wartime already?" "Look on the bright side: it'll be dinner when we get back.
~ Chris Cleave
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Simon aurait détesté revoir Paris à 18 h 07. On a ses heures noires. Simon c'était six heures du soir.
~ Christian Gailly
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Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: 'Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy
~ Christina Rossetti
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Perhaps it was evening, the bruised plum of dusk
~ Helen Fremont
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Later (swifts) gather higher in the sky...And then, all at once, as if summoned by a call or a bell, they rise higher and higher until they disappear from view. These ascents are called vesper flights....Vespers are evening devotional prayers, the last and the most solemn of the day, and I have always thought 'vesper flights' the most beautiful phrase, an ever-falling blue.
~ Helen Macdonald
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It was much more difficult to be alarmed by the events of a day that was almost over.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
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Afternoon has now turned to evening. The sparrows are silent, nested up under the eaves for the night. It is time for Pat's final meal.
~ Helen Prejean
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The sun has set behind the trees. Afternoon has now turned to evening. The sparrows are silent, nested up under the eaves for the night. It is time for Pat's final meal.
~ Helen Prejean
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St. John of the Cross gives the coda on this one: "In the evening of life we will be judged by love.
~ Helen Prejean
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A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be in Uranus, or it may be in the shutter.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible And indescribably as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, A segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Each morning sees some task begin,
Each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, some done,
Has earned a night's repose.
Each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, some done,
Has earned a night's repose.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Between the dark and the daylight,When the night is beginning to lower,Comes a pause in the day's occupations,That is known as the Children's Hour.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The evening before he had been at one of Nero's feasts
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
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All that day it seemed to her as though she were acting in a theater with actors cleverer than she, and that her bad acting was spoiling the whole performance. She had come with the intention of staying two days, if all went well. But in the evening, during the game, she made up her mind that she would go home next day.
~ Leo Tolstoy
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Returned home for dinner and dined alone—the countess had many visitors I do not like. I ate and drank moderately and after dinner copied out some passages for the Brothers. In the evening I went down to the countess and told a funny story
~ Leo Tolstoy
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What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.
~ Leopardi
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There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather by a fire or a stove or a hibachi or another common source of heat and food, and hunker down together to eat and drink. Call it the blue hour.
~ Kate Christensen
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