Dusk Quotes - Page 2

• Day offers two equally necessary sacraments - the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee blesses and in the evening wine absolves.

  Michael Foley

  Morning, Coffee, Wine

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• It is the sky that makes the earth so lovely at sunrise, and so splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth the crystal-like ether, in the other the liquid gold.

  Thomas Cole

  Sunset, Sky, Soul

  "The collected essays and prose sketches".

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• Spring seems far off, impossible, but it is coming. Already there is dusk instead of darkness at five in the afternoon; already hope is stirring at the edges of the day.

  Kathleen Norris

  Inspiring, Spring, Moving

  Kathleen Norris (2001). “Dakota: A Spiritual Geography”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beautiful, Winter, Voice

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “Night and Day”, p.157, Virginia Woolf

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• I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.

  Emma Thompson

  Lying, Mean, Thinking

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• There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Wind, Dawn, Grass

  Archibald MacLeish (1985). “Collected Poems, 1917-1982”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.

  Jack Kerouac

  Sunset, Color, Purple

  Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Fall, Philosophical, Wings

  Philosophy of Right (1821)

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• What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.

  Honore de Balzac

  May, Fantasy

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• A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going. And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon, and darkness crept over the land from the east.

  John Steinbeck

  Nature, Sunset, Clouds

  John Steinbeck (1997). “The Grapes of Wrath: Text and Criticism”, Penguin Group USA

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• The dusk was performing its customary intransitive operation of "gathering".

  Flann O'Brien

  Luck, Gathering, Operations

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• The dusk runs down the lane driven like hail;
  Far off a precise whistle is escheat
  To the dark; and then the towering weak and pale.

  Allen Tate

  Running, Sunset, Dark

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.18, Macmillan

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• It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone.

  Don DeLillo

  Lonely, Sadness, Years

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.66, Pan Macmillan

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• He closed his eyes and sank into the warm dusk that separates consciosness and sleep, where reality bends and sways to the wind of thought, and where creativity blossoms in its freedom from boundaries and all things are possible.

  Christopher Paolini

  Creativity, Sleep, Eye

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.781, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.

  William Faulkner

  Butterfly, Light, Air

  William Faulkner (2016). “The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.90, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Book, Writing, Good Day

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• All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadows and depths.

  Kiran Desai

  Ocean, Moving, Color

  Kiran Desai (2007). “The Inheritance of Loss”, p.1, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.

  Anne Rice

  Enemy, Dawn, World

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.3695, Ballantine Books

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• 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 Hammarskjold

  Nature, Fall, Clouds

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• There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full all the small, daily joys. The bright sunshine on the breakfast table; the smell of the air at dusk; the sound of the clock ticking; the light rains that start gently after midnight; the hour when the family come home; Sunday-evening tea before the fire! I have never missed one moment of beauty, not even taken it for granted. Spring, summer, autumn, or winter. I wish I had failed as little in other ways.

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull

  Summer, Regret, Spring

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull, “No Regrets”

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• Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.

  A. S. Byatt

  Dream, Song, Morning

  FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Aug 27, 2011

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• So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow.

  Anna Godbersen

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Broken

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• Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.

  Kay Granger

  Rights, Liberty, Shadow

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• Dusk was falling quickly. It was just after 7 P.M., and the month was October.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Fall, Months, October

  Patricia Highsmith (1975). “A Dog's Ransom”, Penguin Books Limited

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• For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened - then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Children, Regret, Sunshine

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.14, Atlântico Press

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