Gloaming Quotes

• This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

  John Muir

  Life, Time, Nature

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

  John Muir

  Sunset, Islands, Sea

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When gloaming treads the heels of day
  And birds sit cowering on the spray,
  Along the flowery hedge I stray,
  To meet mine ain dear somebody.

  Robert Tannahill

  Life, Bird, Dear

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• Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Friendship, Sweet, Heart

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• The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.

  James Russell Lowell

  Night, White, Snow

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.631, Delphi Classics

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• If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.

  Thom Yorke

  People, Darkness, Burning

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• The grand show is eternal
  It is always sunrise somewhere

  John Muir

  Sunrise, Vapor, Nature Beauty

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The stars are far brighter Than gems without measure, The moon is far whiter Than silver in treasure; The fire is more shining On hearth in the gloaming Than gold won by mining, So why go a-roaming? O! Tra-la-la-lally Come back to the Valley.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, Moon, Fire

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Nice, Twilight, Eye

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• Maybe I'm not the gloaming witches smart, but at least I'm not our stupid liffey hamburger mongrels

  Thom Yorke

  Smart, Stupid, Hamburgers

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• Sometimes I stand in store windows and pretend to be a mannequin. People are like 'hey, that mannequin looks alot like thom yorke' Then I start to sing The Gloaming and lurch toward them and they run off horrified.

  Thom Yorke

  Running, People, Looks

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• I think Nouveau Gloaming is a classic black metal record and I would hate to be a band that kept trying to recapture the same essence, but failing, for the rest of its days.

  Mat McNerney

  Hate, Thinking, Essence

  "Show No Mercy". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2009.

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• Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place O, to abide in the desert with thee!

  James Hogg

  Sweet, Love Is, Dwelling Place

  James Hogg (1832). “Songs”, p.16

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• Beyond the terrace, a light breeze stirred the reeds at the edge of the pond. Looking out at this intimate vista, one could see the reeds and a stone lantern and the brightest of the evening's stars floating on the gloaming mirror of the pond. Then the breeze came again to crack the water's surface, and the picture was flooded.

  John Burnham Schwartz

  Stars, Mirrors, Light

  John Burnham Schwartz (2009). “The Commoner”, p.214, Vintage

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