Evening Quotes - Page 3

• At the evening of our day, we shall be judged by our loving.

  Frederick Buechner

  Judged

  6 Copy quote

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

  Jean Paul

  Death, Twilight, Darkness

  9 Copy quote

• The world gets better every day - then worse again in the evening.

  Kin Hubbard

  Get Better, World

  9 Copy quote

• Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Done, Each Day, Objects

  9 Copy quote

• I want to do the right thing, but often I don't know just what the right thing is. Every day I know I have come short of what I would like to have done. Yet as the years pass and I see the very world itself, with its oceans and mountains and plains, as something unfinished, a peculiar little satisfaction hunts out the corners of my heart. Sunsets and evening shadows find me regretful at task's undone, but sleep and the dawn and the air of the morning touch me with freshening hopes. Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

  Carl Sandburg

  Hope, Morning, Ocean

  75 Copy quote
• 

  Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

  Jean Paul

  Time, Moon, Light

  54 Copy quote

• Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Death, Sweet, Eye

  Friedrich Schiller (1844). “Sammlung”, p.15

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.

  Bernard Goldberg

  News, Gone, Concepts

  8 Copy quote

• We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Love, Dream, Spring

  "By the Way" by Preston Williams, Xulon Press, Virginia (pp. 38-39), 2002.

  34 Copy quote

  Show source

• Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.

  Joseph Addison

  Moon, Listening, Stories

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.485

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Sunset, Autumn, Years

  Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery”, p.52

  49 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger Across a crowded room.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  May, Rooms, Stranger

  "Some Enchanted Evening" (song) (1949)

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

  Wallace Stevens

  Morning, Kings, Thrones

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.73, Univ of California Press

  83 Copy quote

  Show source

• Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

  Jean Paul

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

  55 Copy quote

• Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heaven, Sandals, Pilgrim

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.340

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Spiritual

  18 Copy quote

• It is the evening that questions thus from within me.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Graham Parkes (2008). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody”, p.95, Oxford University Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such twinklings are what eternity is made of — moments when we human beings can say, “I love you” ... “I'm proud of you” ... “I forgive you” ... “I'm grateful for you” ... “Whether you win anything or not, you still have great value.” That's what eternity is made of: invisible, imperishable good stuff.

  Fred Rogers

  Eye, Eternity, Made

  "You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor".

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The moon glows on the river, wind rustles the pines.
  Long night clear evening--what are they for?

  Ueda Akinari

  Moon, Night, Wind

  10 Copy quote

• The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.

  Alexander Smith

  Mother, Children, Night

  Alexander Smith (1856). “Poems ... Third edition”, p.151

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fairest of all that earth beholds, the hues
  That live among the clouds, and flush the air,
  Lingering, and deepening at the hour of dews.

  William C. Bryant

  Clouds, Air, Dew

  William Cullen Bryant, “A Walk At Sunset”

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Love, Romantic, Beauty

  Christopher Marlowe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Illustrated)”, p.1562, Delphi Classics

  63 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.

  Elvis Presley

  Thinking, Blue, Shoes

  18 Copy quote

• I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

  James Cameron

  Rivers, Cost Of Living, Magic Moments

  James Cameron (1968). “What a way to run the tribe: selected articles, 1948-67”

  85 Copy quote

  Show source

• Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Stars, Real

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.129, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

  18 Copy quote

  Show source