Quotes about evening
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“If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

People, Thinking

“Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Skin Trade

Source: Skin Trade

Smile

“I knew you loved me and that you'd do anything for me. And that was one of the reasons it hurt so much when you ended it, Dawson. Because I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me

Source: The Best of Me

Love, People, Hurt

“I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!”

Alan Alda (1936) actor and United States Army officer

“The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.”

Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“Hey, look—youris saying something."
Artemis had a vast mental reserve of scathing comebacks at his disposal, but none of them covered girlfriend insults. He wasn't even sure if it was an insult. And if it was, who was being insulted? Him or the girl?”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Girl

“I didn't even think about suggesting he take the boots off. There'd probably be a apocalypse or something.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Abandon

Thinking

“To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level.”

Robert Fulghum (1937) American writer

Source: It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It

“I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Source: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

People, Jerk, Personality

“Think long and hard about how you proceed, Nico di Angelo. You cannot lie to Cupid. If you let your anger rule you… well, your fate will be even sadder then mine.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Fate, Lie, Thinking, Anger

“Sure, in a ninja's world, those who violate the rules and fail to follow orders… are lower than garbage. However… those who do not care for and support their fellows… are even lower than that!" - Obito Uchiha”

Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto

Source: Naruto, Vol. 27: Departure

World, Support

“Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Source: This is Where I Leave You

“It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.”

Ann Brashares book Sisterhood Everlasting

Source: Sisterhood Everlasting

Love

“Even if he doesn’t eat, he knows the cookies. I’ll bet his mother stuffed him full as a kid. (Tory)
Not really. My mom wasn’t the Betty Crocker kind. (Acheron)
(Not unless it involved napalm or plagues.)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Moms

“I knew how much it hurt to be the daughter of people who can't see you, not even if you are standing in front of them stomping your feet.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

People, Hurt, Daughters

“It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

Feeling

“You guys are so… dark. Even if I used flash, I'm not sure it would come out."

"Y-yeah," Percy managed. "You guys aren't photogenic.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Guy

“Magnus did not take such suffering lightly, but even mortals did not die of broken hearts. No matter how cruel Grace had been, he told himself, James would heal. Even though he was a Herondale.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Midnight Heir

Suffering, Heart

“Life must go on, even if it's no joke… just pretend to believe in the future.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline book North

Source: North

Life, Future

“Even as a kid, my memories are of books taking me out of myself.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Books, Memory

“After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great.”

Donna Tartt book The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

“The only thing that makes life worth living is the possibility of experiencing now and then a perfect moment. And perhaps even more than that, it's having the ability to recall such moments in their totality, to contemplate them like jewels.”

Paul Bowles (1910–1999) American composer, writer, translator

Source: The Spider's House

Life, Perfection

“Just leave her alone. You're annoying her.'
'I'm not annoying her. She doesn't even know how to be annoyed. She's, what, a week old?'
'She's three months.'
'She's three months in our years, but what is she in baby years?”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Death Bringer

Baby

“And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

People, Problem

“The horror of knowing someone and living with them and even thinking you're lucky and then wham and now you know that every person is really two people and how can you ever know what the other half is up to.”

Michelle Tea (1971) American writer

Source: The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America

People, Thinking, Personality

“Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”

Margaret Cousins (1878–1954) Suffragist and feminist

Life, Change

“When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

Revenge

“I see you looking at my cookies,' my father said to Morelli. 'Don't even think about it. Go get your own cookies.”

Janet Evanovich Twelve Sharp

Source: Twelve Sharp

Thinking

“Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Source: Dracula

Dreams, Sleep, Suffering, Heart

“Honestly, darling," she said. "Do you even look in a mirror before you walk out the door? Your hair's a mess."

He dodged her as she reached toward his head. "Are you kidding? I spend hours in front of the mirror toit look this way.”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

Way

“Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun.”

Richard Rhodes The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Source: The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Love, Family, Sleep, Freedom

“it’s only by studying the mistakes of the past,” Lucien
said mildly, “that we can even have a future”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Insatiable

Study, Past, Future

“The kitchen was just as empty, even the refrigerator gone, the chairs, the table--the kitchen cabinets stood open, their bare shelves reminder her of a nursery rhyme. She cleared her throat. "What would demons," she said, "want with our microwave?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“I don’t know, I don’t feel right unless I’ve got the sea and mountains nearby. People are mostly a product of where they were born and raised. How you think and feel’s always linked to the lay of the land, the temperature. The prevailing winds, even.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

People, Feeling, Mountain, Thinking

“After a certain age, you couldn't even say where you were from. You went someplace, and lived there. And then you went someplace else.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs

Age

“Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

“… quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.”

Fidel Castro (1926–2016) former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba

Source: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography

Life, Food, Knowledge, Clothes

“A frequent exchange of text messages is not a relationship. It's not even a pen-pal.”

Ethlie Ann Vare (1953) American journalist

Source: Love Addict: Sex, Romance, and Other Dangerous Drugs

“More than anything, she wanted to crawl across the bloody sand toward the place where Jace’s body lay, crawl to him and lay down beside him and put her arms around him, even though he was gone.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

Life, Beauty, Sense

“If you give me wings
I will soar for you

Even if this whole land
Sinks down to the water

If you give me a sword
I will fight for you

Even if this whole sky
Shoots through with your light”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Light, Water, Fight

“We know now that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can
play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the
morning.”

George Steiner (1929–2020) American writer

Preface.
Language and Silence: Essays 1958-1966 (1967)
Context: We come after. We know now that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning. To say that he has read them without understanding or that his ear is gross, is cant. In what way does this knowledge bear on literature and society, on the hope, grown almost axiomatic from the time of Plato to that of Matthew Arnold, that culture is a humanizing force, that the energies of spirit are transferable to those of conduct?

Reading

“Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be beautiful, but it doesn't feel safe to be the only compassionate person on the planet.”

Michelle Tea (1971) American writer

Source: Rose of No Man's Land

Pain, Beauty, Feeling, Personality

“I talk to myself everyone once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Guilty Pleasures

Source: Guilty Pleasures

“But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.”

Piers Anthony (1934) English-American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres

Source: Crewel Lye

“This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Love, Hate

“He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and café, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early morning, sleeping away the dull hours of the forenoon.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

Sleep

“All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once.”

Jim Butcher book Summer Knight

Source: Summer Knight

Quotes, Madness

“Try to see yourself with power. Not power so that you can get even with anybody else. Power so that you can become even with your vision- Maya Angelo”

Willa Shalit (1955) American artist

Source: Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female

“Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

Life, Pain, Birth, Effort

“Because what was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn’t even comfort yourself?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Variant: What was the point in crying when there was no one to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself?
Source: City of Glass

Cry

“It made him feel indispensable and needed - even if the fact that Jocelyn didn't appear to care wheather he slept in her daughter's bed or not did underscore that Clary's mother apparently regarded him as about sexually threatening as a goldfish.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Feeling, Appearance, Daughters

“Our eyelashes brushed like they would weave together by themselves, turning us into one wild thing. I say, “I think I missed you before I met you even.”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

Thinking

“Birds sing even when the world is filled with sadness. I don't know why people can't do the same thing.”

Michael Gilbert (1912–2006) Author

Source: Perfected Sinfulness

People, World, Sadness, Bird

“Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Source: Madame Bovary

Bird, Flying

“But as long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Life, Fate, Chance

“In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don't know.”

Elizabeth Kostova book The Swan Thieves

Source: The Swan Thieves

Heart

“Hey No one makes me do anything. Not my family. Not your family… not even you.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Uncommon Criminals

Family

“He's right. I'm a worthless bastard fathered by a bastard even more worthless than I am." [Fury]”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dead After Dark

“It’s really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There’s a whole commotion going on inside us.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“How can I describe how much I love you?
Is it even possible to describe a love like that? I don’t know, but as I
sit here with pen in hand, I know that I have to try.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

Love

“No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.”

Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist

Women, Way, Home, Dependency

“After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble.”

Richard Russo Empire Falls

Source: Empire Falls

People, World, Time, Heart

“Funny, how one good cookie could calm the mind and even elevate a troubled soul.”

Dean Koontz book False Memory

Source: False Memory

Soul

“Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren't even there.”

Joanne Harris book The Gospel of Loki

Source: The Gospel of Loki

History, Parting

“Wow. The guy can make me feel stupid even when he's telling me I don't have to let him make me feel stupid.”

Kelley Armstrong book The Summoning

Source: The Summoning

Stupidity, Guy, Feeling

“If she had hurt me, I could have forgiven her without even having to think about it; but I couldn't forgive her for being hurt.”

Tana French In the Woods

Source: In the Woods

Forgiveness, Thinking, Hurt

“There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

“Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us.”

Sam Tanenhaus (1955) American writer

Source: Literature Unbound

Memory, Time

“There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.”

D.E. Stevenson (1892–1973) British writer

Source: Listening Valley

People, Books, Travel, Winter

“Even if it's deep unhappiness, it's your unhappiness.”

Andrew Sullivan (1963) Journalist, writer, blogger

“In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

“When people die, our dreams of what they could be die with them. Even if ours is the hand that ends them.”

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Source: Lord of Shadows

People, Dreams

“Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.”

Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher

Wise

“Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The ego puts its own interest first and twists every argument, word, even fact to suit that interest.”

Paul Brunton (1898–1981) British philosopher

Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton

“I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.”

Tom Stoppard book Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“If a man can possess a woman sexually -really possess- he won't need to control her ideas, her opinions, her clothes, her friends, even her other lovers.”

Toni Bentley (1958) Australian writer

Lovers, Idea, Clothes

“If there is love enough, then nothing-not nature, not even death itself- can come between two who love each other.”

Philippa Gregory book The White Queen

Source: The White Queen

Love, Death, Nature

“Scent:
When she wore the hat, even many years later, she could always smell her mother's perfume & it was hard to remember she was supposed to be alone.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

“After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living,' I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds…”

Jack Kerouac book Lonesome Traveler

Variant: I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
Source: Lonesome Traveler

Lie, Thinking, Solitude, Grass