Evening Quotes

The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book.

John McGahern

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

Jean Paul

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Jean Paul

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

Lord Byron

The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church...is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.

Dwight L. Moody

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Charles Baudelaire

As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned watchers of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, "They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them."

U Thant

Tell me how many beads there are In a silver chain Of evening rain, Unravelled from the tumbling main

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

William Blake

Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!

Sir John Suckling

Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.

Clyde Jackson Browne

It is light that reveals, light that obscures, light that communicates. It is light I "listen" to. The light late in the day has a distinct quality, as it fades toward the darkness of evening. After sunset there is a gentle leaving of the light, the air begins to still, and a quiet descends. I see magic in the quiet light of dusk. I feel quiet, yet intense energy in the natural elements of our habitat. A sense of magic prevails. A sense of mystery. It is a time for contemplation, for listening - a time for making photographs.

John Sexton

May you have warm words on a cool evening, a full moon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way to your door.

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