These Evening quotes will inspire you. The evening is the period of the day from the end of the afternoon to the beginning of the night. The exact times when the evening begins and ends depends on location, time of year, and culture, but is generally seen as beginning when the sun is low in the sky and continuing until the end of twilight.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and evening quotes, evening sayings, and evening proverbs.
Best Evening Quotes
- “Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Beauty is a fact, and it can change with time. Something ugly in the morning can become beautiful in the evening.” ~ Will Alsop
- “…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.” ~ William Cowper, Peaceful evening quotes
- “The evening’s the best part of the day. You’ve done your day’s work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.” ~ Kazuo Ishiguro
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“In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.” ~ Gertrude Stein
- “This is an evening of wonders, indeed!” ~ Jane Austen
- “The evening had turned sweet and blue.” ~ Alice Hoffman
- “You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.” ~ Sophocles
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“The evening of life brings with it its lamps.” ~ Joseph Joubert
- “Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way.” ~ Donna Karan
- “Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “Every evening brings us nearer God.” ~ Martin Luther
- “The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.” ~ Al Stewart
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“Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky” ~ T. S. Eliot
- “Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.” ~ Jean de La Fontaine
- “We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains, great waterfalls, and galleries of art. And yet the world’s wonder is all around us; the wonder of setting suns, and evening stars, of the magic spring-time, the blossoming of the trees, the strange transformations of the moth…” ~ Albert Pike
- “The evening star Is the most beautiful of all-stars” ~ Sappho
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“Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “There is an evening twilight of the heart When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest.” ~ Fitz-Greene Halleck
- “What a nice night for an evening.” ~ Steven Wright, Nice evening quotes
- “It is better to begin in the evening than not at all.” ~ Ashley Judd
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“In the evening everything has a schedule, if you can find out what it is.” ~ John Ashbery
- “Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.” ~ Walter Savage Landor
- “At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.” ~ John of the Cross
- “Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.” ~ Aime Cesaire
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“To us and a wonderful evening of love-making.” ~ Joe Dunthorne
- “I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.” ~ Groucho Marx
- “My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore
- “To me at least was never evening yet, but seemed far beautifuller than its day.” ~ Robert Browning
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“Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “I can see we’re in for a fabulous evening’s apocalypse.” ~ Douglas Adams
- “Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.” ~ Lord Byron, Evening quotes rainbow
- “Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat-in the evening. Sleep in the night.” ~ William Blake
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“It was a particularly good evening to begin a book.” ~ Tove Jansson
- “It is the evening that questions thus from within me.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “…nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.” ~ Nicholas Sparks
- “The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.” ~ Samuel Richardson
- “At the evening of our day, we shall be judged by our loving.” ~ Frederick Buechner
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“Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.” ~ Heraclitus
- “In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible.” ~ Marguerite Yourcenar
- “Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“There’s nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.” ~ John Lithgow
- “The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.” ~ Jean-Paul
- “As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow… may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, “yes.”” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher
- “I want to do the right thing, but often I don’t know just what the right thing is. Every day I know I have come short of what I would like to have done. Yet as the years pass and I see the very world itself, with its oceans and mountains and plains, as something unfinished, a peculiar little satisfaction hunts out the corners of my heart. Sunsets and evening shadows find me regretful at task’s undone, but sleep and the dawn and the air of the morning touch me with freshening hopes. Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don’t worry about my destiny.” ~ Carl Sandburg, Sunset evening quotes
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“Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.” ~ Jean-Paul
- “Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.” ~ Joseph Addison
- “The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.” ~ Bernard Goldberg
- “Day’s lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death.” ~ Friedrich Schiller
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“Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “The crowds can be very loud, especially when you’re playing in the evening.” ~ Stefan Edberg
- “In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evening of dancing seemed a good way to have it.” ~ Lawrence Welk, Evening quotes dancing
- “During my early years at Minnesota, I conducted an evening enzyme seminar.” ~ Paul D. Boyer
- “Yes, I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight half of anxiety.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe
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“It couldn’t last of course. They both knew it. Not the evening, Not the holiday.” ~ Elizabeth Noble
- “Nudity is who people are at the most interesting point of the evening when they take off their protective layer when no one is watching.” ~ Bridget Fonda
- “In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.” ~ Madeleine L’Engle
- “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.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It’s a very easy, lovely life.” ~ Margaret Forster
- “Remember that God under the Law ordained a Lamb to be offered up to Him every Morning and Evening.” ~ Thomas Ken
- “If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie or brown boots with evening dress.” ~ Arthur Machen
- “What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues, illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!” ~ Sinclair Lewis
- “Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in” ~ William Cowper
