The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.
But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning — for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.
But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees
I need an hour alone before dinner, with a drink, to go over what I've done that day. I can't do it late in the afternoon because I'm too close to it. Also, the drink helps. It removes me from the pages.
Then blessings on thee, my afternoon torpor Thou makest a prince of a mental porpor.
What is moral is what you feel good after.
Nobody looks at the moon in the afternoon, and this is the moment when it would most require our attention, since its existence is still in doubt.
Mornings belong to whatever is new; the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters.
We didn’t have Facebook in my day, we had a phone book but you wouldn’t waste an afternoon on it
Harvard was a kind of luxurious afternoon.
Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon.
The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.
There is still nothing in life as constant and as changing at the same time as an afternoon at a ballpark.
But they never last, the golden days. And it can be sad, the sun in the afternoon, can't it? Yes, it can be sad, the afternoon sun, sad and frightening.
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
It is strange how sad it can be - sunlight in the afternoon, don't you think?
You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.
Writers tend to work early in the morning, or late at night, when brains are naturally able to focus deeply on one thought. In the middle of the day, distractions are unavoidable. I wonder if anything worthwhile has ever been written in the afternoon.
Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.
What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October.
Somehow the bright beauty had gone from April afternoon and from her heart as well and the sad sweetness of remembering was as bitter as gall.
What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.
There was no way Jacob would voluntarily miss an afternoon with Renesmee sans bloodsuckers. -Bella Cullen
Everyone wants to win on Saturday afternoon when the game is played. It’s what you do the other six days that decides the outcome
Bill Pearson is definitely a man to talk to, especially in the afternoon when he's had a couple of drinks because he's got so many stories and anecdotes.
