Evening Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “I can see we're in for a fabulous evening's apocalypse.”

Douglas Adams

Sarcasm, Apocalypse, Humor, Expectations, Evening

2. “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

Atmosphere, Evening, Amusement Park, Description, Imagery

3. “Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar.”

John Milton

Evening, Sound, Landscape, Melancholy, Poetic Imagery

4. “Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.”

John Milton

Evening, Nature, Silence, Rest, Poetic Imagery

5. “I spent many a charming evening talking and playing with Albertine, but none so sweet as when I was watching her sleep.”

Marcel Proust

Evening, Charming, Sweet Moments, Watching Sleep, Quiet Affection, Peaceful Intimacy

6. “Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky.”

T.S. Eliot

Evening, Sky, Invitation, Poetic Moment, Shared Experience, Temporal Beauty

7. “No evening I had passed at Bly had the portentous quality of this one; in spite of which – and in spite also of the deeper depths of consternation that had opened beneath my feet – there was literally, in the ebbing actual, an extraordinarily sweet sadness.”

Henry James

Evening, Sadness, Reflection, Consternation, Atmosphere, Melancholy

8. “On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.”

John Keats

Winter Evening, Frost Silence, Chilled Night, Evening, Silence, Night

9. “Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns.”

William Wordsworth

Dwelling Light, Setting Sun, Nature Beauty, Peace, Calm, Evening

10. “Blue evenings in Berlin, the corner chestnut in flower, light-headedness, poverty, love, the tangerine tinge of premature shoplights, and an animal aching yearn for the still fresh reek of Russia...”

Vladimir Nabokov

Berlin Love, Poverty Yearning, Lightheadedness, Evening, Memory, Emotion

11. “I’m walking out now into the soft light, the cooling hymn of evening, and I will love you tonight, and tomorrow, and still many more, so very many tomorrows.”

Vladimir Nabokov

Soft Light, Love Eternal, Evening Hymn, Love, Light, Evening