Afterglow Quotes

• Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Happiness, Uplifting, Funny Inspirational

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• Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Sunset, Silence, Gone

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.427, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.

  Ned Rorem

  Artist, Fire, Each Day

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When a great life sets it leaves an afterglow on the sky far into the night.

  Austin O'Malley

  Night, Sky

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• I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

  Ariel Gore

  Happiness, Thinking, Depth

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• I'd like the memory of me
  to be a happy one.
  I'd like to leave an afterglow
  of smiles when life is done.
  I'd like to leave an echo
  whispering softly down the ways,
  Of happy times and laughing times
  and bright and sunny days.
  I'd like the tears of those who grieve,
  to dry before the sun
  of happy memories
  that I leave when life is done.

  Helen Lowrie Marshall

  Memories, Grieving, Echoes

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• Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then withdrawn, and the curtain falls. And then the sun goes down, and long the afterglow gives light.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Artist, Light

  Henry David Thoreau, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1906). “Journal, ed. by B. Torrey, 1837-1846, 1850-Nov. 3, 1861”

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• The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

  Stephen King

  Sunset, Water, Calm

  Stephen King (1999). “Bag Of Bones: A Novel”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• I like my afterglow with you in motion. I measure time by how your body sways.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Body, Your Body

  Jennifer Crusie (2011). “Fast Women”, p.270, Macmillan

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• While love is common, true love is rare, and I believe that few people are fortunate enough to experience it. The roads of regular love are well traveled and their markers are well understood by many - the mesmerizing attraction, the idealization obsession, the sexual afterglow, the profound self-sacrifice, and the desire to combine DNA. But true love takes its own course through uncharted territory. It knows no fences, eludes modern measurement, and seems scientifically woolly. But I know true love exists. I just can’t prove it.

  David Buss

  Believe, Sacrifice, Love Is

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• So long his name and face are lost in memory-s afterglow; Nor do I recollect of pride or joy or doubt or fright Or other circumstance which marked that time for solo flight The cryptic words alone endure : he said -you're on your own- And down through time I've found it so - the test-s to walk alone

  Gill Robb Wilson

  Memories, Pride, Names

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• They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge... no Gods imagined by our minds have ever possessed the powers they will command... But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow of Creation; for we knew the Universe when it was young.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Envy, Mind, May

  "Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 1962.

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• Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Sunset, People, Scent

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “L. M. MONTGOMERY – Ultimate Collection: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poetry, Letters and Autobiography (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, The Blue Castle, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, The Golden Road, Mistress Pat, Chronicles of Avonlea, Kilmeny of the Orchard and many more”, p.2313, e-artnow

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• Cold air rises from the ground as the sun goes down.  The eye-burning clarity of the light intensifies. The southern rim of the sky glows to a deeper blue, to pale violet, to purple, then thins to grey.  Slowly the wind falls, and the still air begins to freeze.  The solid eastern ridge is black; it has a bloom on it like the dust on the skin of a grape.  The west flares briefly.  The long, cold amber of the afterglow casts clear black lunar shadows.  There is an animal mystery in the light that sets upon the fields like a frozen muscle that will flex and wake at sunrise.

  J. A. Baker

  Fall, Eye, Animal

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• It was as if the demise of the owner had lent the flat a physical void it hadn't had before. At the same time he had the feeling that he wasn't alone. Harry believed in the existence of the soul. Not that he was particularly religious as such, but it was one thing which always struck him when he saw a dead body: the body was bereft of something...the creature had gone, the light had gone,there was not the illusory afterglow that long-since burned-out stars have. The body was missing its soul and it was the absence of the soul that made Harry believe.

  Jo Nesbo

  Religious, Stars, Believe

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• The key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of them that when that primary brain perishes, you can feel that that person did not totally perish from the earth... because they live on in a 'second neural home'?... In the wake of a human being's death, what survives is a set of afterglows, some brighter and some dimmer, in the collective brains of those who were dearest to them... Though the primary brain has been eclipsed, there is, in those who remain... a collective corona that still glows.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Home, Keys, Brain

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• And to lose the chance to see frigatebirds soaring in circles above the storm, or a file of pelicans winging their way homeward across the crimson afterglow of the sunset, or a myriad terns flashing in the bright light of midday as they hover in a shifting maze above the beach -- why, the loss is like the loss of a gallery of the masterpieces of the artists of old time.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Beach, Sunset, Loss

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.

  Wallis Simpson

  Marriage, Emotional, Fire

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• The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.

  Bob Graham

  War, President, Attention

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