Evening Quotes

• In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

  Gertrude Stein

  Morning, Feelings

  Gertrude Stein, Joan Retallack (2008). “Gertrude Stein: Selections”, p.143, Univ of California Press

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• The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Feet, Done, Enjoy

  FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Jan 21, 2013

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• ...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

  William Cowper

  Night, Peaceful, Welcome

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 4 'The Winter Evening' l. 34.

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• Beauty is a fact, and it can change with time. Something ugly in the morning can become beautiful in the evening.

  Will Alsop

  Beautiful, Morning, Ugly

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• Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sunset, New Day, Promise

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• This is an evening of wonders, indeed!

  Jane Austen

  Wonder

  Jane Austen (2015). “Pride and Prejudice (Illustrated)”, p.221, Book Boutiques

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• The evening had turned sweet and blue.

  Alice Hoffman

  Sweet, Blue

  Alice Hoffman (1998). “Second Nature”, p.24, Penguin

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• ... but the longest day hath its evening.

  Walter Raleigh

  Time

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• You don't know what kind of day you will have, until evening.

  Sophocles

  Kind, Knows

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• We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Action, Muse, Should

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• I love the evening star. Does that sound foolish? I used to go into the backyard, after sunset, and wait for it until it shone above the dark gum tree. I used to whisper 'There you are, my darling.' And just in that first moment it seemed to be shining for me alone. It seemed to understand this ... something which is like longing, and yet it is not longing. Or regret - it is more like regret.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Stars, Regret, Sunset

  Katherine Mansfield, Ian Alistair Gordon (1974). “Undiscovered country: the New Zealand stories of Katherine Mansfield”

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• Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Pet, Sitting

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• Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way.

  Donna Karan

  Fashion, Real, Looks

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• The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

  Joseph Joubert

  Age, Lamps

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.75

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• Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Goodbye, Art, Business

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Complete Poems of Longfellow”, Library of Alexandria

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• Every evening brings us nearer God.

  Martin Luther

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• The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.

  Al Stewart

  Expression, Voice, Dawn

  Song: Roads to Moscow

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• Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky

  T. S. Eliot

  Sky, Sawdust, Muttering

  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 1 (1917)

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  Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Friendship, Best Friend, Birthday

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• Whoever you are, go out into the evening, leaving your room, of which you know every bit; your house is the last before the infinite, whoever you are.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  House, Leaving, Lasts

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1941). “Fifty Selected Poems with English Translations”

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• General Quotations about Evenings Let us add this one more night to our lives.

  Suetonius

  Night, Add, Our Lives

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• We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains, great waterfalls, and galleries of art. And yet the world's wonder is all around us; the wonder of setting suns, and evening stars, of the magic spring-time, the blossoming of the trees, the strange transformations of the moth...

  Albert Pike

  Art, Stars, Spring

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Morning, Labor Day, Tasks

  "The Village Blacksmith" st. 7 (1839)

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• The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars

  Sappho

  Beautiful, Stars, All Stars

  Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.26, Univ of California Press

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• It is better to begin in the evening than not at all.

  Ashley Judd

  "Ashley's Secret Life". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. July 9, 2006.

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