Evening Quotes - Page 33

• One evening, when we were already resting on the floor of our hut, dead tired, soup bowls in hand, a fellow prisoner rushed in and asked us to run out to the assembly grounds and see the wonderful sunset. Standing outside we saw sinister clouds glowing in the west and the whole sky alive with clouds of ever-changing shapes and colors, from steel blue to blood red. The desolate grey mud huts provided a sharp contrast, while the puddles on the muddy ground reflected the glowing sky. Then, after minutes of moving silence, one prisoner said to another, "How beautiful the world could be.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Beautiful, Running, Moving

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.37, Beacon Press

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• Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Lungs, Inhale

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• You call that evening the odds? You demolished them." Demolished. He liked that. "I left you one." "I noticed." "I promised to share," he told her. "Manners are very important in the Weird. Lying would be quite impolite.

  Ilona Andrews

  Lying, Odds, Important

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.94, NYLA

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• On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, July, Bridges

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “Crime and Punishment”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Clever, Dining, Afternoon

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.294, Delphi Classics

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• He grinned. It was a wicked grin, the kind that made the blood in Clary's veins run a little faster. "You want to go on a date?" Caught off guard, she stammered. "A wh-what?" "A date," Jace repeated. "Often 'a boring thing you have to memorize in history class,' but in this case, 'an offering of an evening of blisteringly white-hot romance with yours truly." "Really?" Clary was not sure what to make of this. "Blisteringly white-hot?" "It's me," said Jace. "Watching me play Scrabble is enough to make most women swoon. Imagine if I actually put in some effort.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Offering, Blood

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why I will never lose you...." ......... "I will always remember you, and you will remember me, just as we will remember the evening, the rain on the window, and all the things we'll always have because we cannot possess them

  Paulo Coelho

  Rain, Remember You, Remembers You

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• As we walk back, it feels like the city is engulfing us. Adrenalin still pours through our veins. Sparks flow through to our fingers. We've still been running in the mornings, but the city's different then. It's filled with hope and with bristles of winter sunshine. In the evening, it's like it dies, waiting to be born again the next morning.

  Markus Zusak

  Running, Morning, Sunshine

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• And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such anguish. Some day, with the last exhaustion, peace will come and the motherly earth will gather me back home. It won't be the end of things, only a way of being born again, a bathing and a slumbering where the old and the withered sink down, where the young and new begin to breathe. Then, with other thoughts, I will walk along streets like these, and listen to streams, and overhear what the sky says in the evening, over and over and over.

  Hermann Hesse

  Home, Sky, Earth

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exercised, a space in which to stretch out its arms ... As long as I know there exists in the world someone who does tricks only for the love of the trick, as long as I know there is a woman who loves reading for reading's sake, I can convince myself that the world continues ... And every evening I, too, abandon myself to reading, like that distant unknown woman.

  Italo Calvino

  Reading, Elude Us, Space

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• Count up the almonds, Count what was bitter and kept you waking, Count me in too: I sought your eye when you glanced up and no one would see you, I spun that secret thread Where the dew you mused on Slid down to pitchers Tended by a word that reached no one’s heart. There you first fully entered the name that is yours, you stepped to yourself on steady feet, the hammers swung free in the belfry of your silence, things overheard thrust through to you, what’s dead put it’s arm around you too, and the three of you walked through the evening. Render me bitter. Number me among the almonds

  Paul Celan

  Heart, Eye, Names

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• We used to call it her Cinderella complex, because often when she had agreed to go out in the evening she would be seized by panic and announce that she had nothing to wear.

  Emma Donoghue

  Would Be, Panic, Used

  Emma Donoghue (1995). “Hood”

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• Mostly I sit at home in the evenings watching the box and hoping that one day I'll evolve into plankton.

  Tom Holt

  Home, One Day, Boxes

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• How come someone always saves the people who try to kill themselves and then makes them tell everyone how sorry they are for ruining their evening? I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something. but I'm not going to. I don't have anything to apologize for. They're the ones who screwed everything up. Not me. I didn't ask to be saved.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Sorry, People, Feelings

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• SUN, MOON, AND STARRY SKY Early summer evenings, when the first stars come out, the warm glow of sunset still stains the rim of the western sky. Sometimes, the moon is also visible, a pale white slice, while the sun tarries. Just think -- all the celestial lights are present at the same time! These are moments of wonder -- see them and remember.

  Vera Nazarian

  Summer, Stars, Sunset

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• When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose

  Anne Fadiman

  Writing, Dark, Purple

  Anne Fadiman (2008). “At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays”, p.64, Macmillan

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• When the dead body said, "Good evening," Annabel had to face the grim conclusion that it wasn't as dead as she'd hoped.

  Julia Quinn

  Body, Faces, Said

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• You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow, and then I sleep. What I have done, what I am doing, what I am going to do, puzzle and bewilder me. Have you ever been a leaf and fallen from your tree in autumn and been really puzzled about it? That’s the feeling.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Sleep, Autumn, Artist

  Letter to Eric Kennington, May 06, 1935.

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• This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Delight, Body, Whole

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.80, 谷月社

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• I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough, To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough, To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough, To pass among them, or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment—what is this, then? I do not ask any more delight—I swim in it, as in a sea.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Sea, Breathing

  Walt Whitman (2017). “Leaves of Grass”, p.112, Gibbs Smith

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• But what I can do is paint you a picture of what you’ll never see when you’re with a guy who’s really into you: You’ll never see you staring maniacally at your phone, willing it to ring. You’ll never see you ruining an evening with friends because you’re calling for your messages every fifteen seconds. You’ll never see you hating yourself for calling him when you know you shouldn’t have. What you will see is you being treated so well that no phone antics will be necessary. You’ll be too busy being adored.

  Greg Behrendt

  Hate, Phones, Guy

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Fate, Thinking, Decision

  Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Thousand Cranes”, p.145, Vintage

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• They who love to inform themselves, are never idle. Though I have no business of consequence to take care of, I am nevertheless continually employed. I spend my life in examining things: I write down in the evening whatever I have remarked, what I have seen, and what I have heard in the day: every thing engages my attention, and every thing excites my wonder: I am like an infant, whose organs, as yet tender, are strongly affected by the slightest objects.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Writing, Attention, Care

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• We're not our skin of grime, we're not our dread bleak dusty imageless locomotive, we're all beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we're blessed by our own seed & hairy naked accomplishment-bodies growing into mad black formal sunflowers in the sunset, spied on by our eyes under the shadow of the mad locomotive riverbank sunset Frisco hilly tincan evening sitdown vision.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Beautiful, Blessed, Sunset

  Allen Ginsberg, “Sunflower Sutra”

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• The worst, the very worst requirement of friendship, in Eve Dallas's opinion, was sitting through an entire evening of childbirth classes. What went on there--the sights, the sounds, the assault on all the senses--turned the blood cold.

  Nora Roberts

  Sight, Blood, Class

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