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Quotes About Gloaming

How quickly darkness falls.
~ Jon McGregor
Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Twilight and evening bell,And after that the dark.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
The white sky was becoming pearly, and the street lamps suddenly punctured the gloaming.
~ Alice Elliott Dark
A last red ray lighting up that stern soldier-like head, on which the tonsure lay like a cicatrised wound from the blow of a club; then the ray faded away and the priest, now wrapped in shadow, seemed nothing more than a black silhouette against the ashy grey of the gloaming.
~ Émile Zola
The gloaming that closed over us the cemetery had crawled inside his skin.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Crepuscular
~ Libba Bray
55 But I was born for peaceful roaming, For country calm and lack of strife; My lyre sings! And in the gloaming My fertile fancies spring to life. I give myself to harmless pleasures And far niente rules my leisures: Each morning early I'm awake To wander by the lonely lake Or seek some other sweet employment: I read a little, often sleep, For fleeting fame I do not weep. And was it not in past enjoyment Of shaded, idle times like this, I spent my days of deepest bliss?
~ Alexander Pushkin
Snow not falling but flying sidewise, and sudden, not signaled by the slow curdling of clouds all day and a flake or two drifting downward, but rushing forward all at once as though sent for. (The blizzard of '36 had looked like that.) And filling up the world's concavities, pillowing up in the gloaming, making night light with its whiteness, and then falling still in every one's dreams, falling for pages and pages... ("Novelty")
~ John Crowley
Night started to fall, then it fell, till it was lying all over the ground.
~ John Marsden
Look at the evening grackles strung on their overhead wires like Morse code! Impossible not to believe they spelled out something. But they didn't; they were meaningless, in their numbers and their prattle. The call of a grackle is known as a grackle: in the gloaming, the grackles grackle. Maybe they don't want anything. Maybe they stare because they wonder what you signify. What brought you here, to their front lawn?
~ Elizabeth McCracken
Mrs MacFarley called the valley the Glen. She called the light at early evening the gloaming. She liked to go Roaming in the Gloaming in the Glen.
~ Beryl Bainbridge
Sunset is the saddest light there is
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Out to sea, the calm lagoon waters were darkening, while the comets overhead glowed brighter, omens in the gloaming.
~ Julian May
Saw for a brief instant La Inca praying in her room - the silence that lay between them now, stronger than love - and in the gloaming of her dwindling strength there yawned a loneliness so total it was beyond death, a loneliness that obliterated all memory, the loneliness of a childhood where she'd not even had her own name.
~ Junot Diaz
Didn't you tie the mittens on her feet (Wednesday Evening's) extra special nice? Yes--she is an extra special nice pigeon. She cries for pity when she wants pity. And she shuts her eyes when she doesn't want to look at you. And if you look deep in her eyes when her eyes are open you will see lights there exactly like the lights on the pastures and the meadows when the mist is drifting on a Wednesday evening just between the twilight and gloaming.
~ Carl Sandburg
Fire benefits plants that need sunlight, while inhibiting those that love the cool gloaming of the forest floor; it encourages the animals that need those plants even as it discourages others; in turn, predator populations rise and fall.
~ Charles C. Mann
Twilight and evening bell And after that the dark.
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
Ninety-five degrees in the shade characterizes the weather these days, and I generally make a few miles in the gloaming - not, of course, because it is cooler, but because the "gloaming" is so delightfully romantic.
~ Thomas Stevens
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.
~ Unknown