Twilight Quotes - Page 22

• Twilight fans are literally on the verge of being clinically insane.

  Robert Pattinson

  Insane, Fans, Verge

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• Into the air, over the valleys, under the stars, above a river, a pond, a road, flew Cecy. Invisible as new spring winds, fresh as the breath of clover rising from twilight fields, she flew.

  Ray Bradbury

  Stars, Spring, Air

  Ray Bradbury (2013). “A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Lastly, the great uncertainty of all data in War is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be planned in a mere twilight, which in addition not unfrequently — like the effect of a fog or moonshine — gives to things exaggerated dimensions and an unnatural appearance.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Data, Fog

  "On War".

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• A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.

  Kate Simon

  Summer, Sky, Paris

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• You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into… the Twilight Zone.

  Rod Serling

  Moving, Keys, Sight

  The Twilight Zone (television series), opening narration (1961)

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• Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. A little twitch in our optic nerve, a shock effect: twenty-four illuminated frames a second, darkness in between, the optic nerve incapable of registering darkness.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Dream, Art, Soul

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• How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the words and my mind began to wander, and how secure have I felt seated at the desk in my house in the dark night, just watching the tip of my pencil in the lamplight following its shadow, as if of its own accord and with perfect fidelity, while that shadow moved regularly from left to right, line by line, over the ruled paper.

  W. G. Sebald

  Book, Dark, Night

  W.G. Sebald (2014). “Austerlitz”, p.140, Vintage Canada

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• When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to the twilight world of change and decay, it can only form opinions, its vision is confused and its beliefs shifting, and it seems to lack intelligence.

  Plato

  Confused, Eye, Reality

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• Love prefers twilight to daylight.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Daylight

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.101, Reprint Services Corporation

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• No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Art, Film Directing, Soul

  "The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography". Book by Ingmar Bergman, translated by Joan Tate, 1988.

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• At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Beer, Use

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.239, OUP Oxford

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• Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening to frogs and crickets. Darkness soothed. It softened the sharp edges of the world, toned down the too-harsh colors. With the coming of twilight, the sky seemed to recede; the universe expanded. The night was bigger than the day, and in its realm, life seemed to have more possibilities.

  Dean Koontz

  Stars, Children, Sunset

  Dean Koontz (2004). “Midnight”, p.15, Penguin

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• In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved.

  John of the Cross

  Peace, Ubuntu, Judging

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• What does he plant who plants a tree?
  He plants the friend of sun and sky;
  He plants the flag of breezes free;
  The shaft of beauty, towering high, he plants a home to heaven anigh.
  For song and mother-croon of bird, in hushed and happy twilight heard -
  The treble of heaven's harmony.
  These things he plants who plants a tree.

  Henry Cuyler Bunner

  Mother, Song, Home

  Henry Cuyler Bunner, “The Heart Of The Tree”

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• Yes, I saw Twilight - my granddaughter made me watch it, she said it was the greatest vampire film ever. After the 'film' was over I wanted to smack her across her head with my shoe, but I do not want a (tell-all) book called Grannie Dearest written on me when I die. So instead I gave her a DVD of Murnau's 1922 masterpiece Nosferatu and told her, 'Now that's a vampire film!' And that goes for all of you! Watch Nosferatu instead!

  Lauren Bacall

  Book, Dvds, Shoes

  "Bacall Blasts Twilight Vampires" by wenn.com, August 26, 2009.

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• Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, 'rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation', a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Struggle, Men

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961. The words in quotation marks are from the Bible, Romans 12:12.

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• Oh, how beautiful is the summer night, which is not night, but a sunless, yet unclouded, day, descending upon earth with dews and shadows and refreshing coolness! How beautiful the long mild twilight, which, like a silver clasp, unites today with yesterday!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Summer, Night

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “Poems. New edition”, p.410

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• For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.

  Rod Serling

  Children, Prejudice, Records

  "The Twilight Zone (The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. March 4, 1960.

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• Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that we should not have missed, or they are about to tell us something; this imminence of a revelation that is not produced is, perhaps, the esthetic event.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Feelings, Events, Want

  "Other Inquisitions". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1952.

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• Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as mysterious as an overshadowed ocean, while the dazzling brightness of supreme hopes lies far off, fascinating and still, on the distant edge of the horizon

  Joseph Conrad

  Lying, Ocean, Joy

  Joseph Conrad (2005). “A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences”, p.18, Cosimo, Inc.

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• So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Great Gatsby Gatsby, Cooling, Great Gatsby Nick Carraway

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.556, e-artnow

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• The way we treat our children in the dawn of their lives and the way we treat our elderly in the twilight of their lives is a measure of the quality of a nation.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Children, Elderly, Quality

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• I mourn in grey, grey as the sleeted wind the bled shades of twilight, gunmetal, battleships, industrial paint.

  Marge Piercy

  Grief, Wind, Bereavement

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• Life is good to those who know how to live. I do not ever hope to accumulate great funds of worldly wealth, but I shall accumulate something far more valuable, a store of wonderful memories. When I reach the twilight of life I shall look back and say I'm glad I lived as I did, life has been good to me.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Memories, Life Is Good, Looks

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