Quotes About Twilight

The breath of dying lilies haunted the twilight air.

Her sun is gone down while it was yet day.

The moon sets and the eastern sky lightens, the hem of night pulling away, taking stars with it one by one until only two are left.

He wants to tell her what he has learned about the miracles of light, the way a day's light fluxes in tides: pale and gleaming at dawn, the glare of noon, the gold of evening, the promise of twilight -- every second of every day has its own magic. He wants to tell her that when things vanish they become something else, in death we rise again in the blades of grass, the splitting bodies of seeds.

In the twilight the Americans brought gin and tonics to the beach and rented pedal-boats shaped like giant swans. They trolled night crawlers from their bamboo poles, sipped their drinks and nodded to the lovers who paddled among them, spellbound, all of them, in the tangerine dusk.

To be free is not to live in no place and at no time but to live in one place as in the shadow of all places, and to live in one time as in the morning twilight of eternity.

The sun hovered briefly on the horizon, then dipped below. At once, the clouds rolled

One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.

Few in the Nineties would have ventured to prophesy that the remote dim singer of the Celtic Twilight would, in a new age, become the leading poet of the English-speaking world. None have disputed the claim of William Butler Yeats to that title.

A small footnote found in the court records of some parallel world. The name of Mitchell Chaplin, who served his sentence of invisibility and learned his lesson well. Too well. This time, however, he will wear his invisibility like a shield of glory. A shield forged in the very heart...of the Twilight Zone.

Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.

It was a time I slept in many rooms, called myself by many names. I wandered through the quarters of the city like alluvium wanders the river banks. I knew every kind of joy, ascents of every hue. Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.

I went on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry quietude over it. I was alone but not lonely. I was a queen and has a fancy.

In the mornings I always think the mornings are best; but when evening comes I think it's lovelier still

Katie Maurice was a little girl like myself, and I loved her dearly. I would stand before that door and prattle to Katie for hours, giving and receiving confidences. In especial, I liked to do this at twilight, when the fire had been lit and the rooms and its reflections were a glamour of light and shadow.

Even if we never find it,' he said to Emily as they lingered in the New Moon garden under the violet sky of a long, wonderous northern twilight, on the last evening before he went away, 'there's something in the search for it that better than even the finding would be.

They lingered in the old gardens until twilight, sweet as dusk in Eden must have been" "There was nobody else for me but you. I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school

El viento ululaba entre las ramas de los árboles, y ya se sabe que en el mundo no hay música más dulce que la del viento sonando en las copas de los pinos al atardecer

Who would ever ask for the fragrance of morning when faced with the twilight of afternoon?

It was still twilight when they reached the flat rock. They sat, and the stone still held the warmth of the day's sun. At first there were only occasional sparkles, but as it got darker Chuck was lost in a daze pf delight as a galaxy of fireflies twinkled on and off, flinging upward in a blaze of light, dropping earthward like falling stars, moving in contiuous effervescent dance.

The moon set. The sun rose.

I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in the loveliness between the two. A House Like a Lotus

The existence of the twilight does not mean we cannot distinguish the day from the night.

To ADVESPERATE  (ADVE'SPERATE)   v.n.[advespero, Lat.] To draw towards evening.Dict.