Quotes: Twilight
Search
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.
American theologian, educator, and civil rights mentor
In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
American writer (1878-1968)
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913-1960)
You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.
president of the United States from 1913 to 1921
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.
26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909
I’m really proud of Twilight. I think it’s a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don’t take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there’s literally like a thousand girls and they’re all screaming your name, you’re like, why? You don’t feel like you deserve it.
American actress
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
American poet and educator (1807-1882)
My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.