Dusk Quotes

Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk. — Susan Merrell

A sunset is the sun's fiery kiss to the night. — Crystal Woods

wind stiffened as dusk closed in. Mat began to ask querulously — Robert Jordan

Looking about I see no cherry blossoms And no crimson leaves A straw-thatched hut by a bay In the autumn dusk. — Fujiwara No Teika

Patches of stained red grass. Rotting baby limbs at dusk. The sound of cicadas and laughter; picnics with madmen by the black lake at noon. — Andrew Gallacher

Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars. — J.K. Rowling

When you die, your soul crosses the Dusk between life and the Blank Sea. The journey takes forty-nine days, — David Mitchell

I sit up in the dark drenched in longing. / I am carrying over a thousand names for blue that I didn't have at dusk. — Joy Harjo

We've chased the dawn, Anastasia, now the dusk. — E.L. James

Dreading dusk, fearing night, praying for dawn. — Gregory J. Saunders

and stars sang like crickets in the dropping dusk and were. — Agnes McDonald

The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come. — Cesare Pavese

He who is neither human nor demon is not the dawn nor the dusk. — Kohta Hirano

Love Warriors embrace the battlefield at dawn, blaze the banner of hope til dusk then silently splash the waters of joy through our dreams at night. — Cathie Wright-Lewis

Nothing is black and white. There may be day and night, but not without the dawn and the dusk. — Hannah Hart

There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass. — Archibald MacLeish

In so far as we interact with people each day from dawn to dusk, we shall surely be offended by people and we shall surely offend people — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The Goldsworth castle became particularly solitary after that turning point at dusk which resembles so much the nightfall of the mind. Stealthy — Vladimir Nabokov

And dusk fell because it suited his skin. — Anne Enright

Dusk splatters pink and orange across the sky, beginning its languorous summer stroll. I hear the river through the trees sounding like possibility - — Jandy Nelson

Dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun. — Simon Raven

And now, at dusk, outside my window, the trees shake their heads like disco dancers in the strobe lights of nightlife long ago. — Martin Amis

With a starry brush, paint the dusk Venetian blue — Owl City

From dawn to dusk I spent my time in the real world. Only in my dreams at night could I indulge my fantasies. — Rampo Edogawa

I came home at dusk with my ears ringing from the quiet. — Tim Winton

Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things? — L.M. Montgomery

The past is gone. It went by like dusk to dawn. — Steven Tyler

Brenda descended the great staircase step by step through alternations of dusk and rainbow. — Evelyn Waugh

From that woman on the beach, dusk pours out across the evening waves. ISSA — Richard Flanagan

The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences. — Alan Moore

From dawn to dusk, winter to spring, summer & autumn; the contrasts of nature refresh the mind & renew our sense of balance — Phil Harding

And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep. — Albert Camus

Like Solzhenitsyn, I shall return, one bright dusk. — David Mitchell

What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk. — Honore De Balzac

They are twilight creatures, beings of dawn and dusk, of standing between one thing and another, of not quite and almost, of borderlands and shadows. — Holly Black

Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk. — Jean-Paul Sartre

If you don't look before the dusk and beyond the dawn, you won't be able to see the sun. (Soar) — Soar

Life is an act and we are all actors in the arena of life. We all do act each day from dawn to dusk. Some act well but some act to cover their acts — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I have gone at dusk through narrow streets and watched the smoke that rises from the pipes of lonely men leaning out of windows — T. S. Eliot

Hand at Cards IX. The Game Made X. The Substance of the Shadow XI. Dusk — Charles Dickens

I was a shadow among shadows brooding over the fate of other shadows that I alone strove to summon up out of the all-pervading dusk. — Loren Eiseley

In darkness, in any light after dusk, you can slit a vein and the blood is black. — Michael Ondaatje

Dusk falls. There is nothing gentle
about the sky. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing. — Winston Churchill

If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all. — Zora Neale Hurston

A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark. — John Singer Sargent

hay gold dusk of late spring, — Dean Bakopoulos

Shadow XI. Dusk XII. Darkness XIII. Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever — Charles Dickens

It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum. — Hunter S. Thompson

It's six o'clock; my drink is at the three-quarter mark - three-quarters down not three-quarters up - and the night begins.
("New York Blues") — Cornell Woolrich

The seasons bring the flower again, And bring the firstling to the flock; And in the dusk of thee the clock Beats out the little lives of men — Alfred Tennyson

The dusk runs down the lane driven like hail;
Far off a precise whistle is escheat
To the dark; and then the towering weak and pale ... — Allen Tate

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk. — William Arthur Ward

Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object. — Albert Camus

They studied the way the world
changed at morning and dusk and imagined how the sun might fall on the skin of a goddess. — Chris Bohjalian

A time when sky blue love bids farewell to the day and before dusk falls, the sunset ignites the smouldering embers of the moonlit soul... — Virginia Alison

Made X. The Substance of the Shadow XI. Dusk XII. Darkness — Charles Dickens

What do sunflowers talk about after dusk
when the wind goes down and the moon comes up? — David Etter

I just want to be floating, suspended here in my California time capsule with neither yesterday's dusk or tomorrow's dawn anywhere on the horizon. — Sarah Ockler

I just wait to go elsewhere but I get there and it's the same dusk. — Rodney Ross

The whisper of the dusk
is night shedding its husk. — Dean Koontz

My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went. — Antonio Porchia

It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk. — Robert E. Howard

The Shadow XI. Dusk XII. Darkness XIII. Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps — Charles Dickens

Autumn Dusk
I saw above a sea of hills
A solitary planet shine,
And there was no one, near or far,
to keep the world from being mine. — Sara Teasdale

I'm likely to stay here, pen in hand, until dusk comes and my writing melts into the twilight. — Fennel Hudson

It is the quietening of the day that most appeals. — Fennel Hudson

VII. A Knock at the Door VIII. A Hand at Cards IX. The Game Made X. The Substance of the Shadow XI. Dusk XII. — Charles Dickens

Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn. — D.J. Cotrona

The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Apparently my street has a leaf blower gang who tag team all day, so the sounds of the leaf blower are forever blowing from dawn to dusk. — Bob Saget

Dusk would fall in another hour. He — R. K. Murthy

Long before the stars died the birds began to sing - cool rippling doves, loud cheery starlings, the long lilting trills of warblers and thrushes. — Mike Bond

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk. — Stephen King

At dusk a broken wheel appeared, Held by a hand I could not see, And I knew that someone I feared, Had discovered an empty room in me" ~ 1951 — Gavin Maxwell

There's a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the night's. — Ed Gorman

Snow Patrol blaring in my ears, I set off into the opal and aquamarine dusk. — E.L. James

Find a part of yourself hidden in the twilight. — Fennel Hudson

True spiritual life depends not on probing our feelings and thoughts from dawn to dusk but on 'looking off' to the Savior! — Watchman Nee

The dusk smelled like dead leaves and far off fires — V.E Schwab

The snow that began at midafternoon had faded the sign's virulent yellow to a kinder pastel shade as the light ran out of the January dusk. — Stephen King

When it walks like a saint, and quacks like a saint- it's a quacking saint.
-Della — C.C. Hunter

Speak silence with thy glimmering eyes, And wash the dusk with silver. — William Blake

You are dawn and she is midnight. And despite the mist of the half-light, together you see more clearly in the dusk. — Samantha Young

She could see Sylvie and her friends on the lawn below, their dresses fluttering like moths in the encroaching dusk. — Kate Atkinson

Twilight ...
Say, who you are !!
The dusk before the night
Or the dawn before the light
(Page 73) — Neena Verma

In the words of a Zen poem, At dusk the cock announces dawn; At midnight, the bright sun. — Fritjof Capra

Did they look like psychos? They were vampires. Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them - I don't give a fuck how crazy they are! — Seth Gecko

In daylight I belong to the world ... in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself ... and you — L.M. Montgomery

Watched dusk fall in shades of blood and old bruises. — Leah Raeder

Dawn comes slowly but dusk is rapid. — Alice B. Toklas

They rode on through sunset, and slow dusk, and gathering night. — J.R.R. Tolkien

To live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky — R.S. Thomas

The rain had begun at dusk, spewing from the sky like someone had opened an artery. Beneath — Tam Linsey

All through the long dusk — Cormac McCarthy

The light of an early Summer afternoon as it slips toward dusk has so many good things wrapped up in it.. — Brandi L. Bates

You said I was your number-one pick."
"And you are. In our hearts. Alphabetically, though, Dusk comes before you. — Derek Landy

The misty morning crawleth grey from dusk to the reluctant day. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

The end came as dusk fell on a gloomy winter day of cold rain. — Soheir Khashoggi