Quotes of Twilight - somelinesforyou

“ By night an atheist half believes in God. ”

- Edward Young

“ 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

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

- John Ball

“ Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, And Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast. ”

- George William Russell

“ All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ 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

“ How lovely are the portals of the night, When stars come out to watch the daylight die. ”

- Thomas Cole

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

- Burton Hills

“ The west is broken into bars Of orange, gold, and gray, Gone is the sun, come are the stars, And night infolds the day. ”

- George MacDonald

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

- Fitz Greene Halleck

“ The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? ”

- Bible

“ 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

“ This will last out a night in Russia, When nights are longest there. - Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ This is Ercles' vein. - A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ 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

“ My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia. ”

- Dame Edna Everage

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

- Oscar Wilde

“ 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

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ Love prefers twilight to daylight. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

- Ingrid Bergman

“ Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. ”

- Jean Paul Richter

“ The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. ”

- H.G. Wells

“ There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white. ”

- John F. Dodge

“ Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism. ”

- Angela Carter
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