Quotes of Nightfall - somelinesforyou

“ Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth, And add each night a lustre till afar An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth. ”

- Emma Lazarus

“ There is a French saying: "Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.". ”

- De Finod

“ When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman? ”

- John Ball

“ For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise-whatever appeals to you. ”

- Krzysztof Kieslowski

“ Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart… filled it, too, with melody that would last forever. ”

- Bess Streeter Aldrich

“ I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. ”

- John Muir

“ All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ One evening I sat Beauty on my knees — And I found her bitter — And I reviled her. ”

- Arthur Rimbaud

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ The shortest night of the year is Christmas Eve-from sundwon to son up. ”

- Burton Hills

“ We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child. ”

- James Agee

“ Ah, strong am I with the Force, but not that strong. Twilight is upon me, and soon, night must fall. That is the way of things. The way of the Force. ”

- Yoda

“ On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence. ”

- John Keats

“ The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that might have been, and yet were not, The fading twilight of joys departed. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ If I hear the way of truth in the morning, I am content even to die in the evening. ”

- Confucius

“ What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest. ”

- Fitz Greene Halleck

“ Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more: Too common! Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ May you have warm words on a cold evening, A full moon on a dark night, And the road downhill all the way to your door. ”

- Unknown

“ Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening. ”

- Bible

“ Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices. ”

- Hedy Lamarr

“ At half-past six on a Friday evening in January, Lincoln International Airport, Illinois, was functioning, though with difficulty. ”

- Arthur Hailey

“ Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All hallows Eve… And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon. ”

- Kim Elizabeth

“ What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. - Crowfoot. ”

- Crowfoot

“ The Astronomer An astronomer used to go out at night to observe the stars. One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole attention fixed on the sky, he fell accidentally into a deep well. While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning what had happened said: Hark ye, old fellow, why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on earth?'. ”

- Aesop

“ Somewhere, in desolate, wind-swept space, In twilight land, in no man's land, Two hurrying shapes met face to face And bade each other stand. "And who are you?" cried one, a-gape, Shuddering in the glimmering light. "I know not," said the second shape, "I only died last night. ”

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“ After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often. ”

- Gustav Klimt
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