Quotes about Fading Light

Charles Dickens

Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia creeper on the Cathedral wall has showered half its deep-red leaves down on the pavement. There has been rain this afternoon, and a wintry shudder goes among the little pools on the cracked, uneven flag-stones, and through the giant elm-trees as they shed a gust of tears.

Gene Tierney

A flame burns brightest just before it goes out.

George Meredith

Days, when the ball of our vision
Had eagles that flew unabashed to sun;
When the graps on the bow was decision,
And arrow and hand and eye were one;
When the Pleasures, like waves to a swimmer,
Came heaving for rapture ahead! -
Invoke them, they dwindle, they glimmer
As lights over mounds of the dead.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

Edgar Lee Masters

Such phantom blossoms palely shining
Over the lifeless boughs of Time.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, Slowly upon the amber air unrolled, The falling mantle of the Prophet seems.

John Green

Night falls fast. Today is the past.

William Cullen Bryant

Oh, Constellations of the early night
That sparkled brighter as the twilight died,
And made the darkness glorious! I have seen
Your rays grow dim upon the horizon's edge
And sink behind the mountains. I have seen
The great Orion, with his jewelled belt,
That large-limbed warrior of the skies, go down
Into the gloom. Beside him sank a crowd
Of shining ones.

Thomas Hood

The year's in wane; There is nothing adorning; The night has no eve, And the day has no morning; Cold winter gives warning!

John Burroughs

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Matsuo Basho

The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.

William Cullen Bryant

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

Andre Breton

The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.

Haruki Murakami

Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.

Emily Bronte

The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again

Sheryl Crow

Justice is a fading light.

Allen Tate

The dusk runs down the lane driven like hail;
Far off a precise whistle is escheat
To the dark; and then the towering weak and pale.

Nicholas Sparks

Now it was coming to an end, and it was like he was watching the last flicker of light wink out in the darkness of an endless tunnel.

Edgar Allan Poe

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me up again? -A Shooting Star

Oswald Chambers

We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails.

William Christopher Handy

I hate to see the evening sun go down.

Bayard Taylor

Departed suns their trails of splendor drew
Across departed summers: whispers came
From voices, long ago resolved again
Into the primeval Silence, and we twain,
Ghosts of our present selves, yet still the same,
As in a spectral mirror wandered there.

A. E. Housman

Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go.

John Updike

The days are short,
The sun a spark
Hung thin between
The dark and dark.

Fading Light Quotes