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Quotes About Dusk

The Sun and the science are the same; when they set down, the darkness comes!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Twilight was already coagulating into night.
~ Unknown
watching the stars appear in the sky. It was one of her favorite times of day, when the colors that streaked across the sky faded. Things were neither bright nor dark, but caught somewhere between. That was how life had felt for so long: it could get better or worse
~ Melissa Marr
The day offers problems. The night provides solutions.
~ Michael Buckley
Je vois le soir tomber et le monde mourir.
~ Michel Houellebecq
She had almost reached the cafe before Céleste identified Pippa, imposterish without beret and lampshade dress, her iPod shining through her pocket. At the time, it was merely something else unexpected, an element of the mildly extraordinary evening. But long after the open windows and the tiny running children had vanished, that memory of Pippa would persist. She made her way towards Céleste like a citizen of the future, her heart rectangular and glowing in the dusk.
~ Unknown
Although remote, the park can be busy during summer days. Savvy visitors know to camp out or at least arrange to be on-site at dusk:
~ Unknown
there's something undoing about the dying light of mid-afternoon.
~ Niall Williams
It was one of those cold, wet winter days when if you get stuck watching sport or an old movie, you can miss that short period between dawn and dusk altogether.
~ Unknown
Ghosts grew from the thin grey mist of hollow hills, the damp and drizzle of dusk, the breath of the dead.
~ Nicola Griffith
A woman with hair a dusty black-brown and eyes of deep blue-the deep dark blue of the dome of sky late in summer when the day turns towards night, but dark won't fall, not quite, because summer wants to stay, hold on the world, linger forever.
~ Nicola Griffith
Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don't want to go home in the dark.
~ O. Henry
Bat dünya bat..
~ Unknown
At night I observe Venus, closely following the transitions of this beautiful Damsel. I prefer her as the Evening Star, when she appears as if out of nowhere, as if by magic, and goes down behind the Sun. A spark of eternal light. It is at Dusk that the most interesting things occur, for that is when simple differences fade away. I could live in everlasting Dusk.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Love prefers twilight to daylight.
~ Unknown
I am happy now. Even if I were to hear the four walls all shriek in anguish, my feeling of happiness would still be at the saturation point. I am so happy I could sneeze." Mr. Uehara laughed. "But it's too late now. It's dusk already." "It's morning!" That morning my brother Naoji committed suicide.
~ Osamu Dazai
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
~ Oscar Wilde
She seemed to him like the first twilight of early spring when the trees were well budded out and the robins sat among the blossoms, singing down the sun.
~ Pamela Clare
The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
~ Pamela Hansford Johnson
Perhaps a moment comes when must is to tired to fight and want breaks free to cry I am just once before the sun goes down.
~ Parke Godwin
Dropping toward the watershed, the sun filled the place with evening light and kindled the windows and the western flanks of cupolas and steeples and many belfries, darkening the eastern walls with shadow; and as we gazed, one of them began to strike the hour and another took up the challenge, followed by a third and soon enormous tonnages of sectarian bronze were tolling their ancient rivalries into the dusk.
~ Unknown
The sun had gone down but the trees and the first houses of Kampos were still glowing with the sunlight they had been storing up since dawn. It seemed to be shining from inside them with the private, interior radiance of summer in Greece that lasts for about an hour after sundown so that the white walls and the tree trunks and the stones fade into the darkness at last like slowly expiring lamps.
~ Unknown
Ever since, the Paris wherein I have tried to retrace her steps has remained as silent and deserted as it was on that day. I walk through empty streets. For me, they are always empty, even at dusk, during the rush hour, when the crowds are hurrying towards the mouths of the métro. I think of her in spite of myself, sensing an echo of her presence in this neighborhood or that.
~ Patrick Modiano
For me, autumn has never been a sad season. The dying leaves and the days that grow shorter and shorter have never evoked the end of something for me but instead brought with them anticipation for the future. In Paris, during these October evenings, there is an electricity in the air at dusk. Even when it rains. I don't feel down at that time of night, nor does it seem that time is passing too swiftly. I have the feeling that anything is possible.
~ Patrick Modiano