#dusk

The moon went slowly down in loveliness; she departed into the depth of the horizon, and long veil-like shadows crept up the sky through which the stars appeared. Soon, however, they too began to pale before a splendour in the east, and the advent of the dawn declared itself in the newborn blue of heaven. Quieter and yet more quiet grew the sea, quiet as the soft mist that brooded on her bosom, and covered up her troubling, as in our tempestuous life the transitory wreaths of sleep brook upon a pain-racked soul, causing it to forget its sorrow. From the east to the west sped those angels of the Dawn, from sea to sea, from mountain-top to mountain-top, scattering light from breast and wing. On they sped out of the darkness, perfect, glorious; on, over the quiet sea, over the low coast-line, and the swamps beyond, and the mountains above them; over those who slept in peace and those who woke in sorrow; over the evil and the good; over the living and the dead; over the wide world and all that breathes or as breathed thereon. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#dusk #heavens #horizon #life #mist

The first rule of being a mercenary? Find out what the client wants, then convince him that, a) you can get it for him, and, b) you're the ONLY one who can get it for him. Second rule? Lie. Often. The truth rarely serves you well in this business -Cadeon Woede, mercenary, second in line to the throne of the rage demons, a.k.a. Cade the Kingmaker ↗

— Kresley Cole

#dark-desires-after-dusk #holly #iad #intro-quotes #kresley-cole

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

#away #dawn #day #dusk #given

The afternoon slipped away while we talked -- she talked brightly when any subject came up that interested her -- and it was the last hour of day -- that grave, still hour when the movement of life seems to droop and falter for a few precious minutes -- that brought us the thing I had dreaded silently since my first night in the house. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#dusk #sunset #life

...dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun. ↗

— Simon Raven

#dusk #vampires #men

Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#sunset #light

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#else #falls #famous #knowing #known

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#blessing #curse #dawn #dusk #foe

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

#book #day #down #dusk #get

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

#back #bowling #dusk #evening #from time to time