Evening Quotes - Page 25

• She spoke of evenings in the country making popcorn on the porch. Once this would have gladdened my heart but because her heart was not glad when she said it I knew there was nothing in it but the idea of what one should do.

  Jack Kerouac

  Country, Heart, Ideas

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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• Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones.

  John Steinbeck

  Moving, Wind, Rabbits

  John Steinbeck (2016). “Of Mice and Men”, p.2, Hamilton Books

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• Dearer to me than the evening star A Packard car A Hershey bar Or a bride in her rich adorning Dearer than any of these by far Is to lie in bed in the morning

  Jean Kerr

  Morning, Stars, Lying

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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• Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen sourly yours the blame: all the meanness your youth concealed have been gathering in your face. But the pretty thoughts and sweet ways and dear, forgotten kindnesses linger there also, to bloom in your twilight like evening primroses.

  James M. Barrie

  Girl, Sweet, Kindness

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• Morning: Slept. Afternoon: Slept. Evening: Ate grass. Night: Ate grass. Decided grass is boring. Scratched. Hard to reach the itchy bits. Slept.

  Jackie French

  Morning, Night, Afternoon

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• Im haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint rather than words. Ive been examining half-scraps of my childhood. They are pieces of distant life that have no form or meaning. They are things that just happened like lint.

  Richard Brautigan

  Vocabulary, Childhood, Feelings

  Richard Brautigan (1995). “Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away”, p.125, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Moon, Sky, Silent

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• Witch Baby wanted to ask Ping how to find her Jah-Love angel. She knew Raphael was not him, even though Raphael had the right eyes and smile and name. She knew how he looked--the angel in her dream--but she didn't know how to find him. Should she roller-skate through the streets in the evenings when the streetlights flicker on? Should she stow away to Jamaica on a cruise ship and search for him in the rain forests and along the beaches? Would he come to her? Was he waiting, dreaming of her in the same way she waited and dreamed?

  Francesca Lia Block

  Dream, Baby, Beach

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• We gather at night to celebrate being human. Sometimes we call out low to the tambourine. Fish drink the sea, but the sea does not get smaller! We eat the clouds and evening light. We are slaves tasting the royal wine.

  Rumi

  Wine, Night, Clouds

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• As long as skies are blue, and fields are green Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Night, Blue, Years

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1830). “The Beauties of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Consisting of Miscellaneous Selections from His Poetical Works. The Entire Poems of Adonais and Alastor, and a Revised Edition of Queen Mab, Free from All the Objectionable Passages. With a Biographical Preface”, p.214

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• This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their Pork, the Bread, and in continual ill-humour. (Autobiography, 1771)

  Benjamin Franklin

  Good Day, Men, Pork

  Benjamin Franklin (1986). “The Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.170, Penguin

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• In our old age my beloved companion said to me quietly one evening, "You have always given me wings to fly, and I have loved you for it.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Wings, Age, Beloved

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• Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time, probe my soul, suckle my thoughts, have me for your companion, confidant, and information bureau? What do you take me for? Am I an entertainer on salary, required every evening to play an intellectual farce under your stupid noses? Am I a slave, bought and paid for, to crawl on my belly in front of you idlers and lay at your feet all that I do and all that I know?

  Henry Miller

  Stupid, Play, Feet

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• The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out now in lights, revolved leisurely through the dusk; a few empty cars of the roller coaster rattled overhead.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Light, Car, Ferris Wheels

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.1790, e-artnow

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• I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.

  Italo Calvino

  Rain, Fantasy, Assertion

  Italo Calvino (1988). “Six Memos for the Next Millennium”, p.81, Harvard University Press

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• Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Rain, Fall, Heart

  Gustave Flaubert (2005). “November: Fragments in a Nondescript Style”, Hesperus Press

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• A lovely evening of new idioms and fresh mozzarella.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Lovely, Mozzarella, Idiom

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.10, A&C Black

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• If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.

  Arthur Golden

  Grateful, Ends, Exciting

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.113, Random House

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• She's like snow in Russian," said Anna. "Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alpengluhen, you know? And if snow had a scent it would smell like that [the rose].

  Eva Ibbotson

  Smell, Snow, Rose

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• I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company.

  Jane Goodall

  Thinking, Laughing, Messages

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• He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and café, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early morning, sleeping away the dull hours of the forenoon.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Morning, New York, Sleep

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1965). “This Side Of Paradise”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• After dinner, I become afraid despite myself. I know I should be joyous, for this reunion is the proof that love can still be ours, but I know the bell has tolled this evening. The sun has long since set and the thief is about to come, and there is nothing I can do to stop it. So I stare at her and wait and live a lifetime in these last remaining moments.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Long, Waiting, Thieves

  Nicholas Sparks (2014). “The Notebook: Student edition”, p.159, Hachette UK

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• The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.

  Wilkie Collins

  Lakes, Swans, Water

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilkie Collins (Illustrated)”, p.4018, Delphi Classics

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• I like bars just after they open in the evening. When the air inside is still cool and clean and everything is shiny. The first quiet drink of the evening in a quiet bar -- that's wonderful.

  Raymond Chandler

  Air, Bars, Firsts

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.24, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.

  W. G. Sebald

  Reading, Thanks, Sane

  W. G. Sebald (2016). “Vertigo”, p.62, New Directions Publishing

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