Quotes About The Gloaming

#1. The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.

James Russell Lowell

#2. Ninety-five degrees in the shade characterizes the weather these days, and I generally make a few miles in the gloaming - not, of course, because it is cooler, but because the "gloaming" is so delightfully romantic.

Thomas Stevens

#3. The gloaming that closed over us the cemetery had crawled inside his skin.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#4. Out to sea, the calm lagoon waters were darkening, while the comets overhead glowed brighter, omens in the gloaming.

Julian May

#5. The stars are far brighter Than gems without measure, The moon is far whiter Than silver in treasure; The fire is more shining On hearth in the gloaming Than gold won by mining, So why go a-roaming? O! Tra-la-la-lally Come back to the Valley.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#6. Sometimes I stand in store windows and pretend to be a mannequin. People are like 'hey, that mannequin looks alot like thom yorke' Then I start to sing The Gloaming and lurch toward them and they run off horrified.

Thom Yorke

#7. Mrs MacFarley called the valley the Glen. She called the light at early evening the gloaming. She liked to go Roaming in the Gloaming in the Glen.

Beryl Bainbridge

#8. If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.

Thom Yorke

#9. Maybe I'm not the gloaming witches smart, but at least I'm not our stupid liffey hamburger mongrels

Thom Yorke

#10. And who are you?" cried one agape, Shuddering in the gloaming light. "I know not" said the second Shape, "I only died last night.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#11. Come closer, my dears, let me give you a warning,
Of the fate that befalls those who stay out past morning,
In the darkest hours before the dawn,
When witches roam and demons spawn,
And children die with spirit gone,
Magicked away in the gloaming.

Nenia Campbell

#12. And in the gloaming of her dwindling strength there yawned a loneliness so total it was beyond death, a loneliness that obliterated all memory, the loneliness of a childhood where she'd not even had her own name

Junot Diaz

#13. When the light has fled but the stars have not yet shown themselves. That is the gloaming, the loveliest and saddest hour of the day.

Deanna Raybourn

#14. Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace ...

Alphonse De Lamartine

#15. Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place O, to abide in the desert with thee!

James Hogg

#16. By 1939 the Gulag was the largest employer in Europe.

Norman Davies

#17. I don't really know how music and comedy are similar. I try never to dissect it theoretically or academically.

Eric Andre

#18. Gloaming," Dad said. "What?" "That word I couldn't remember. Gloaming. That short, murky time between half-light and dark.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#19. I think Nouveau Gloaming is a classic black metal record and I would hate to be a band that kept trying to recapture the same essence, but failing, for the rest of its days.

Mat McNerney

#20. A bloody gloaming then, and bloodier still as twilight fades to dawn.

Sabaa Tahir

#21. You don't know what love is until someone lives with you while you write a book.

Thulani Davis

#22. A sailor at war with the wind and the sea.

Ed Brubaker

#23. PEASEBLOSSOM
A gloaming peace this evening with it brings
In the countryside where we lay our scene
Toad-ballad accompan'd, crickets sing,
and cupcake crumbs make fairy hands unclean.
An indignant Moth squeaked, There were cupcakes?!

Lisa Mantchev

#24. If thou thy selfe canst doe it, attend no others helpe or hand.

George Herbert

#25. Though justification costs us nothing but the sacrifice of our pride, it has cost Christ His blood.

F.B. Meyer

#26. This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

John Muir

#27. Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money.

Danny DeVito

#28. I know that elections must be limited only to those who understand that the Arabs are the deadly enemy of the Jewish state, who would bring on us a slow Auschwitz - not with gas, but with knives and hatchets.

Meir Kahane

#29. I know beginnings, I know endings too,
and life-in-death, and something else
I'd rather not recall just now.

Anna Akhmatova

#30. When gloaming treads the heels of day
And birds sit cowering on the spray,
Along the flowery hedge I stray,
To meet mine ain dear somebody.

Robert Tannahill

#31. Sometimes she felt like a tiny gnat, whirring around her family's edges

Anne Tyler