Twilight Quotes

• Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious 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.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Speech to Hamilton Club, Chicago, Ill., 10 Apr. 1899 See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 18

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• Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Stars, Night, Safety Pins

  Anne of Green Gables ch. 17 (1908)

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• 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.

  Howard Thurman

  Nature, Dark, Too Much

  Howard Thurman (1985). “The Mood of Christmas”

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• How beautiful the silent hour, when morning and evening thus sit together, hand in hand, beneath the starless sky of midnight!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Morning, Hands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1852). “The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. With Illustrations by John Gilbert”, p.272

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• Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.

  Dorothy Parker

  New York, Night, Knows

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

  H. G. Wells

  Past, Dawn, Has Beens

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• How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die.

  Thomas Cole

  Stars, Night, Lovely

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• Does my being half-naked bother you?

  Taylor Lautner

  Half, Doe, Naked

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• Dim eclipse, disastrous twilight.

  John Milton

  Eclipse

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 594

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• Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Perfect, Matter, Ends

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• Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Despair, Midnight, Noon

  Benjamin Disraeli (1853). “The Young Duke ... By B. Disraeli. A New Edition”, p.106

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• No measure of time with you will be long enough, but we'll start with forever.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Marriage, Long, Forever

  "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1". www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• 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.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Blow, Wind, Sea

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.131

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• You still owe me a yellow Porsche.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Yellow, Porsche, Stills

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• What heart has not acknowledged the influence of this hour, the sweet and soothing hour of twilight, the hour of love, the hour of adoration, the hour of rest, when we think of those we love only to regret that we have not loved them more dearly, when we remember our enemies only to forgive them.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sweet, Regret, Heart

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• I peeked up at him one more time, and regretted it. He was glaring down at me again, his black eyes full of revulsion. As I flinched away from him, shrinking against my chair, the phrase if looks could kill suddenly ran through my mind.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Eye, Mind, Black

  "Twilight". Book by Stephenie Meyer, October 5, 2005.

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• Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.

  George William Russell

  Dark, Night, Blue

  George William Russell (1935). “Selected poems”

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• From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed To grateful twilight.

  John Milton

  Spring, Grateful, Heaven

  John Milton (1873). “The third (fourth, fifth) book of Milton's Paradise lost: with a prose tr. and notes, by J. Hunter”, p.51

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• Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

  George Edward Moore

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

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• That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight of such day, As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by-and-by black night doth take away.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Sunset, Night

  Sonnet 73

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• Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn,
  Come clear of the nets of wrong and right;
  Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight,
  Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Sadness, Laughing

  'An Irish Airman Foresees his Death'

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• Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Death, Way, Self Sacrifice

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• If we had happy endings, we’d all be under gravestones now.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Happy Endings, Gravestone, Eclipse

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Switzerland, Mythical Creatures, Eclipse

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• I tried to be diplomatic, but mostly I just lied a lot.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Bella Swan, Lied, Diplomatic

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