Twilight Quotes

• Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Speech to Hamilton Club, Chicago, Ill., 10 Apr. 1899 See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 18

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• The day is done; and slowly from the scene the stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, and puts them back into his golden quiver!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Done, Golden, Sun

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1868). “The Golden Legend”, p.182

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• Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.

  Dorothy Parker

  New York, Night, Knows

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.

  Howard Thurman

  Nature, Dark, Too Much

  Howard Thurman (1985). “The Mood of Christmas”

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• How beautiful the silent hour, when morning and evening thus sit together, hand in hand, beneath the starless sky of midnight!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Morning, Hands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1852). “The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. With Illustrations by John Gilbert”, p.272

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• Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Stars, Night, Safety Pins

  Anne of Green Gables ch. 17 (1908)

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• The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

  H. G. Wells

  Past, Dawn, Has Beens

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• How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die.

  Thomas Cole

  Stars, Night, Lovely

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• I can feel what you’re feeling now — and you are worth it.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Feelings, Feels, I Can

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• It's not the end. It's the beginning.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Ends, Twilight Movie, Twilight Book

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• love gave someone the power to break you. I'd been broken beyond repair.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Broken, New Moon, Break

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• Does my being half-naked bother you?

  Taylor Lautner

  Half, Doe, Naked

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• We are become Middle Men, of the Twilight, but with memory of other things. For as the Rohirrim do, we now love war and valour as things good in themselves, both a sport and an end; and though we still hold that a warrior should have more skills and knowledge than only the craft of weapons and slaying, we esteem a warrior, nonetheless, above men of other crafts. Such is the need of our days.

  Faramir

  Sports, Memories, War

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• Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Perfect, Matter, Ends

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• I do a good job of blocking painful, unnecessary things from my memory.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Jobs, Memories, Block

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead—your next stop, the Twilight Zone.

  Rod Serling

  Journey, Sight, Land

  The Twilight Zone (television series), opening narration (1959)

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• The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, Slowly upon the amber air unrolled, The falling mantle of the Prophet seems.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fall, Clouds, Air

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.845, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.

  Rod Serling

  Science, Men, Space

  The Twilight Zone (television series), opening narration (1963)

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• Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

  Albert Camus

  Beautiful, Truth, Honesty

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.120, Vintage

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• It's twilight. It’s the safest time of day for us. The easiest time. But also the saddest, in a way...the end of another day, the return of the night. Darkness is so predictable, don’t you think?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Night, Thinking, Darkness

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• For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Happy Birthday, Time, Stars

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.282, Penguin

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• Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet broke When round the ruins of their ancient oak The peasants flocked to hear the minstrel play, And games and carols closed the busy day.

  Samuel Rogers

  Games, Play, Magic

  Samuel Rogers (1854). “The complete poetical works of Samuel Rogers: with a biographical sketch, and notes”, p.63

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• Yes, you are exactly my brand of heroin.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Heroin, Brands, Twilight Movie

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• Yeah, it's an off day when I don't get somebody telling me how edible I smell." - Bella Swan.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Swans, Smell, Bella Swan

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• There's no twilight in the tropics. Night falls like a curtain.

  Waldemar Young

  Fall, Night, Curtains

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