40 Dusk Quotes and Sayings That Describe the Beauty of Sunsets

Dusk quotes and sayings

Quotes about dusk

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

• "Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries." — Jack Kerouac

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

• "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" — Lucy Maud Montgomery

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

• "Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart?" — Nicholas Sparks

• "When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken, Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk." — Ben Harper

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

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

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

• "Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don't need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days." — Jack Kerouac

• "Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again." — John B. Tabb

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

• "What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk." — Honore de Balzac

• "Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day." — Virginia Woolf

• "The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk." — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

• "Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil." — Jean-Paul Sartre

• "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

• "It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone." — Don DeLillo

• "He closed his eyes and sank into the warm dusk that separates consciosness and sleep, where reality bends and sways to the wind of thought, and where creativity blossoms in its freedom from boundaries and all things are possible." — Christopher Paolini

• "A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular." — Christopher Hitchens

• "Spring seems far off, impossible, but it is coming. Already there is dusk instead of darkness at five in the afternoon; already hope is stirring at the edges of the day." — Kathleen Norris

• "The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist." — Dag Hammarskjold

Dawn and dusk quotes

Dawn to dusk quotes

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• "I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn't make yourself over between dawn and dusk." — John Knowles

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

• "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

• "I was always amazed at how beautiful the light was. At different times of the day the landscape becomes a different place. Dawn and dusk, it's a different place." — Bill Henson

• "All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk." — Anne Rice

• "WAKING AT NIGHT The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end." — Jack Gilbert

• "Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life." — Kay Granger

• "Once in his life, a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth, I believe. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience, to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder about it, to dwell upon it. He ought to imagine that he touches it with his hands at every season and listens to the sounds that are made upon it. He ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest motions of the wind. He ought to recollect the glare of noon and all the colors of the dawn and dusk." — N. Scott Momaday

• "The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn, and dusk, and unlike other trade the hours asleep are not time off." — Keith Miller

• "I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them." — David Attenborough

• "My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time." — Bob Feller

• "I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything." — Emma Thompson

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

• "Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk." — Beverley Nichols

• "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

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

• "Day offers two equally necessary sacraments - the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee blesses and in the evening wine absolves." — Michael Foley