Quotes About Twilight

Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek soft flesh and hot blood.

It was a strange drive, a sense that you could see the June heat lifting off the earth, the greenness darkening as the twilight waned. Far off the west there were thunderheads that caught the sun we could no longer see and made the air yellowish. We took a gravel road norh that dead-ended at the Niobrara River, the wind around the speeding car too loud for talk.

During the blue nights you think the end of day will never come. As the blue nights draw to a close (and they will, and they do) you experience an actual chill, an apprehension of illness, at the moment you first notice: the blue light is going, the days are already shortening, the summer is gone.

My chest feels full of glitter and helium, the way it used to when I was little and riding my father's shoulders at twilight, when I knew that if I held up my hands and spread my fingers like a net, I could catch the coming stars.

The four courtisans or grandes horizontales whose lives and legends are examined in this book were all, in different ways, representative of the demi-monde in nineteenth-century Paris - that is, of that half-world midway between respectable high society and the low life of the common prostitute. demi-monde is a term suggestive of twilight, of a world of shifting appearances and shadow, where nothing is quite what it seems, a world between worlds.

C'est ainsi que, contre toute attente, on continue de danser, dans le noir, sur une musique primitive dont le culte semble ne jamais vouloir s'éteindre, au crépuscule du troisième millénaire.

I hate to see the evenin' sun go down.

The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day.

Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh heart again in the gray twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.

I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses.

Whether to play, or to ride Those winds that clamour of approaching night.

It was at the moment of the fall of day when every man may pass as handsome and every woman as comely.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death.

Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark.

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

Chickens are brave till the foxes come at night; mortals are courageous till the death comes at twilight.

I am so tired; all I want to do is sleep. I want to sleep all the day, from dawn until twilight that every evening comes a little earlier and a little more drearily. In the daytime, all I can think about is sleeping. But in the night I do is try to stay awake.

But on my worst days, which are rare and of which this is one, I can get down so low that the bottom seems to be where I belong. I don't even want to look for a way up. I suppose surrender to sadness is a sin, though my current sadness is not a black depression but is instead a sorrow like a long moody twilight.

Siempre resplandece el cielo antes del anochecer.

Now comes the evening of the mind. Here are the fireflies twitching in the blood. —Donald Justice, "The Evening of the Mind

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. —H. G. Wells

At the door to the hall, she switched off the lights, leaving the mouse in the shadows that, when the twilight whispered away on the evening breeze, would have what magic this world allowed

Outside, it was coming on night. Twilight. "The magic time," his daddy called it, "the make-a-wish moment between the dark and the light.