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Quotes About Dusk

It was almost as if nature had sided with Tom Conrad and knew that to warm the air and uncover the blue of the sky would be to mock his tragedy. So she patiently held spring at bay for a while longer, quietly reflecting the dark, cold, seemingly endless dusk that his life had suddenly become. With
~ Ray Garton
It takes a fictionalized or invented excursion to buy a pencil in the winter dusk of London as an excuse to explore darkness, wandering, invention, the annihilation of identity, the enormous adventure that transpires in the mind while the body travels a quotidian course.
~ Rebecca Solnit
This is my favorite time of the day. Light and dark touch for a few moments. [...] I used to wish dusk would last longer, but its quickness seems to add to making it special.
~ Regina McBride
From that woman on the beach, dusk pours out across the evening waves. ISSA
~ Richard Flanagan
she could see Sylvie and her friends on the lawn below, their dresses fluttering like moths in the encroaching dusk.
~ Kate Atkinson
It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk.
~ Robert E. Howard
I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn't make yourself over between dawn and dusk.
~ John Knowles
I went out into the garden in the morning dusk, When sorrow enveloped me like a cloud; And the breeze brought to my nostril the odor of spices, As balm of healing for a sick soul.
~ Moses ibn Ezra
I'm sure partial to the evening,' Augustus said. 'The evening and the morning. If we just didn't have to have the rest of the dern day I'd be a lot happier.
~ Larry McMurtry
We stand on the threshold of a twilight-whether morning or evening we do not know. One is followed by the night, the other heralds the dawn.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid.
~ Mary Renault, Fire from Heaven
Sunset is the opening music of the night.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
From dawn to dusk, winter to spring, summer & autumn; the contrasts of nature refresh the mind & renew our sense of balance
~ Phil Harding
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
~ Oscar Wilde
The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist.
~ Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings
As the sun sinksIt casts that silver bridgeAcross the lake
~ Richard L. Ratliff
The breeze across the desert as the light died was so sweet she could almost drink it.
~ Mike Bond, The Last Savanna
Every sunrise hold more promise, and every sunset hold more peace.
~ Unknown
Dusk At The CountrysideThe fire-glow greetsthe ingress of nightfalland thenceforth, over the sublime specter, argent stars convene.
~ Tara Estacaan
Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
~ William Arthur Ward
The sun sat, in immense fieriness, just above the horizon, the sea, glittering in great swatches of phosphorescent white, waiting to receive it. Then the blazing ball dived and was gone, swallowed in one big gulp by the hungry waters. Amazing how fast, once it got near it, the sun in these latitudes hastened into the sea.
~ William Brinkley
The day drew on, was swallowed in dusk. No bird called, no insect. Life in abeyance, the world itself grinding to a halt, who knew what would follow. Light through the glass grew dim but he read on as if the passage of day into night was of no moment. The world was winding down, and young Bloodworth wound down with it.
~ William Gay
The only reason there's such a thing as a morning in the first place is to keep night and afternoon from bumping into each other. -Kheldar
~ David Eddings
I came home at dusk with my ears ringing from the quiet.
~ Tim Winton