Twilight Quotes
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Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star. (Quote by - Lucy Maud Montgomery)
In the twilight of morning to climb to the top of the mountain,-- Thee to salute, kindly star, earliest herald of day,-- And to await, with impatience, the gaze of the ruler of heaven.-- Youthful delight, oh, how oft lur'st thou me out in the night. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
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. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Then the nun-like twilight came, violent vestured and still, And the night's first star outshone afar on the eve of Bunker Hill. (Quote by - Clinton Scollard)
Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not. (Quote by - Howard Thurman)
How lovely are the portals of the night, When stars come out to watch the daylight die. (Quote by - Thomas Cole)
Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast. (Quote by - George William Russell)
'Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down Over the waste of waters; like a veil, Which, if withdrawn, would but disclose the frown Of one whose hate is mask'd but to assail. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
The sunbeams dropped Their gold, and, passing in porch and niche, Softened to shadows, silvery, pale, and dim, As if the very Day paused and grew Eve. (Quote by - Edwin Arnold)
The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle. (Quote by - Christa McAuliffe)
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. (Quote by - Jean Paul)
In the twilight, it was a vision of power. (Quote by - Upton Sinclair)
She bids you on the wanton rushes lay you down And rest your gentle head upon her lap, And she will sing the song that pleaseth you And on your eyelids crown the god of sleep, Charming your brood with pleasing heaviness, Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep As is the difference betwixt day and night The hour before the heavenly-harnessed team Begins his golden progress in the east. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization. (Quote by - Richard Foreman)
You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. (Quote by - H. G. Wells)
There's no twilight in the tropics. Night falls like a curtain. (Quote by - Waldemar Young)
The lengthening shadows wait The first pale stars of twilight. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.)
I've been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had their career. (Quote by - Martina Navratilova)
In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear. (Quote by - Paul Harris)
Beauteous Night lay dead Under the pall of twilight, and the love-star sickened and shrank. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till--'tis gone--and all is gray. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed To grateful twilight. (Quote by - John Milton)
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. (Quote by - George Edward Moore)
Her feet along the dewy hills Are lighter than blown thistledown; She bears the glamour of one star Upon her violet crown. (Quote by - Clinton Scollard)
The summer day is closed, the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours, The latest of whose train goes softly out In the red west. (Quote by - Bear Bryant)
What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world! (Quote by - Rita Dove)
Our lady of the twilight She hath such gentle hands, So lovely are the gifts she brings From out of the sunset-lands, So bountiful, so merciful, So sweet of soul is she; And over all the world she draws Her cloak of charity. (Quote by - Alfred Noyes)
The twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free, And like the wings of sea-birds Flash the white caps of the sea. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in the twilight Zone. (Quote by - Morgan Brittany)
The west is broken into bars Of orange, gold, and gray; Gone is the sun, come are the stars, And night infolds the day. (Quote by - George MacDonald)
Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh, The sun has left the lea, The orange flower perfumes the bower, The breeze is on the sea. (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, Slowly upon the amber air unrolled, The falling mantle of the Prophet seems. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Fair Venus shines Even in the eye of day; with sweetest beam Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood Of softened radiance from her dewy locks. (Quote by - Mrs. Anna Letitia Barbauld)
The gloaming comes, the day is spent, The sun goes out of sight, And painted is the occident With purple sanguine bright. (Quote by - Alexander Hume)
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Night was drawing and closing her curtain up above the world, and down beneath it. (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. (Quote by - Hubert H. Humphrey)
Well, I just finished starring in a new episode of the new The Twilight Zone television series. (Quote by - Bill Mumy)
All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are. (Quote by - Karl Von Clausewitz)
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors. (Quote by - Robert Benton)
Love prefers twilight to daylight. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
