Quotes about evening
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“There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

World, Smile

“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

speech at Lord Mayor’s Luncheon, Mansion House, London, November 10, 1942 : ( partial text http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/EndoBegn.html) Referring to the British victory over the German Afrika Korps at the Second Battle of El Alamein in Egypt. The Second World War (1939–1945) Variant: This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning. Source: Their Finest Hour

“Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.”

Hayao Miyazaki (1941) Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka

Life, Beauty

“Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.”

B.F. Skinner Walden Two

Source: Walden Two

Way, Failure, Understanding, Learning

“The fact is that those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!”

Galén (129–216) Roman physician, surgeon and philosopher

Galen, On the Natural Faculties, Bk. 1, sect. 13; cited from Arthur John Brock (trans.) On the Natural Faculties (London: Heinemann, 1963) p. 57.

Knowledge, Learning

“I am alive, he says to himself, I am alive! And life energy surges hotly through him, and delight, and appetite. How good to be in a body - even this old beat-up carcass - that still has warm blood and live semen and rich marrow and wholesome flesh!”

Christopher Isherwood book A Single Man

Source: A Single Man

Life

“Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.”

Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker

Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.”

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist

Deep

“I’m losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless.”

Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher

“Comfort me from wherever you are–alone, we are quickly worn out; if I place my head on the road, let it seem softened by you. Could it be that even from afar we offer each other a gentle breath?”

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer

“My 'morals' were sound, even a bit puritanic, but when a hidebound old deacon inveighed against dancing I rebelled. By the time of graduation I was still a 'believer' in orthodox religion, but had strong questions which were encouraged at Harvard. In Germany I became a freethinker and when I came to teach at an orthodox Methodist Negro school I was soon regarded with suspicion, especially when I refused to lead the students in public prayer. When I became head of a department at Atlanta, the engagement was held up because again I balked at leading in prayer. I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war..”

W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) American sociologist, historian, activist and writer

Source: The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century

War, School, Religion, Color

“There is nothing that exists that has only one side. Even a piece of paper, thin as it is, has two sides.”

Terry Goodkind (1948) American novelist

“We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

Feeling

“I want to
let her know
though
that all the nights
sleeping
beside her

even the useless
arguments
were things
ever splendid

and the hard
words
I ever feared to
say
can now be
said:

I love
you.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Love, Fear, Sleep, Night

“No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Variant: No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

Girl

“Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.”

Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher

(1998), " On male domination http://mondediplo.com/1998/10/10bourdieu" Le Monde Diplomatique, Oct. 10, 1998

“If there is suffering, then it's best to accept it, because it won't go away just because you pretend it's not there. If there is joy, then it's best to accept that too, even though you're afraid it might end one day.”

Paulo Coelho book The Zahir

Source: The Zahir

Suffering, Joy

“I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul.”

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night

Source: Twelfth Night

Secret, Books, Soul

“Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.”

Michael Crichton book Jurassic Park

Source: Jurassic Park

Life, Way, History

“She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.”

Virginia Woolf book Mrs Dalloway

Source: Mrs. Dalloway

Feeling, Sense, Sea

“I'm always going to keep your heart safe, even if mine has to stop beating for that to happen.”

P. C. Cast (1960) American writer

Heart

“Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.”

Bruce Lee book Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Truth

“Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Someone Like You

Love, Fools

“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 Stray Birds

Source: Stray Birds

Music, Dance

“Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.”

Louise Erdrich book Love Medicine

Source: Love Medicine

Game

“There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Feeling

“I don't think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am. I don't think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star”

Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic

Life, Star, Understanding, Thinking

“Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she'd known it was impossible and had gone ahead and done it anyway.”

Donna Tartt book The Little Friend

Source: The Little Friend

“Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 121
Source: Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Fear, Failure

“Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42 (1996), p. 281
Attributed from posthumous publications

“Almost four hundred years is quite a lot to take even if you moisture regulary”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.”

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

What Happened To Goodbye (2011)
Source: What Happened to Goodbye

Past, Forgetting

“love is dangerous for your tiny heart even in your dreams so please dream softly”

Mathias Malzieu book La Mécanique du cœur

Source: La Mécanique du cœur

Love, Dreams, Heart

“I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.”

Dean Koontz (1945) American author

Learning

“Whoever has no house now, will never have one.
Whoever is alone will stay alone,
will sit, read, write long letters through the evening,
and wander on the boulevards, up and down,
restlessly, while dry leaves are blowing.”

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer

Reading, Housing

“Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, seperate, in the evening.”

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer

Bird

“I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it. I completely forget my physical suffering and all the unpleasantness of my present condition and I think only of the joy of seeing the sun rise once more and of being able to work a little bit, even under difficult conditions.”

Henri Matisse (1869–1954) French artist

Way, Thinking, Suffering, Time

“Whoever you are, go out into the evening,
leaving your room, of which you know every bit;
your house is the last before the infinite,
whoever you are.”

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer

Housing

“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.”

Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968) American journalist

Happy, Happiness

“Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City.”

Douglas Adams book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

People, World, Justice, Smile

“I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Love

“You can think whatever you want, do whatever you want. I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

Love, Thinking

“If I have to worry about the ants I crush beneath my feet, I couldn't even walk around”

Kentaro Miura (1966) Japanese manga artist

Source: Berserk, Vol. 1

“Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

God, Idea, Passion, Time

“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois

Source: Walden

Love, Solitude, Time, Parting

“Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory.”

Erich Maria Remarque book Three Comrades

Source: Three Comrades

Thinking, Memory

“I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Love, Star, Laughter, Sleep

“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”

Terry Pratchett book Thief of Time

Source: Thief of Time

World, Time, Painting

“To succeed in the game of power, you have to master your emotions. But even if you succeed in gaining such self-control, you can never control the temperamental dispositions of those around you. And this presents a great danger.”

Robert Greene book The 48 Laws of Power

Source: The 48 Laws of Power

Game

“I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.”

Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer

Love, Thinking

“Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility.”

Terry Pratchett book A Hat Full of Sky

Source: A Hat Full of Sky

“I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.”

Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)

Freedom

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

The New Quotable Einstein
1950s, Essay to Leo Baeck (1953)

People

“I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.”

Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist

Intelligence

“Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human

I.332 http://books.google.com/books?id=Nl-vaAdJD3MC&pg=PA139&dq=:%22Arrogance+on+the+part+of+the+meritorious+is+even+more+offensive+to+us%22&hl=en&ei=7HFTTKGJOcmhnQfSrsXJAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%3A%22Arrogance%20on%20the%20part%20of%20the%20meritorious%20is%20even%20more%20offensive%20to%20us%22&f=false Human, All Too Human (1878)

Parting

“Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.”

Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist

Soul, Effort, Light

“Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it.”

Meghan O'Rourke (1976) American writer

Source: The Long Goodbye

“But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things

World

“When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

Personality

“Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

Indifference

“Sadness of any sort is also seductive, particularly if it seems deep-rooted, even spiritual, rather than needy or pathetic—it makes people come to you.”

Robert Greene book The Art of Seduction

Source: The Art of Seduction

People, Sadness

“Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.”

Erik H. Erikson (1902–1994) American German-born psychoanalyst & essayist

Life, Hope, Confidence

“The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living.”

Chris Hedges book War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

Source: War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

Life, War

“It is right to learn even from an enemy.”

Ovid Metamorphoses

Fas est et ab hoste doceri.
Book IV, 428
Variant translations:
It is right to learn, even from the enemy.
Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.
It is right to be taught even by an enemy.
We can learn even from our enemies.
Metamorphoses (Transformations)

Learning

“It's not where you start or even what happens to you along the way that's important. What is important is that you persevere and never give up on yourself.”

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker

Source: Something to Smile about: Encouragement and Inspiration for Life's Ups and Downs

Way, Perseverance

“It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.”

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Source: The Walk

Love, Soul, Personality

“We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us.”

Kate DiCamillo book Because of Winn-Dixie

Source: Because of Winn-Dixie

Love

“There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you.”

Richard Adams book Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

“Sometimes I felt as if there were no tomorrows, that everything, my whole life, was crammed into one long day. A continuous stretch of meaningless time. Sometimes I even wished there was no tomorrow, if this was all I had to look forward to.”

Julie Anne Peters book Keeping You a Secret

Source: Keeping You a Secret

Life, Time

“One of the most poisonous of all Satan’s whispers is simply, “Things will never change.” That lie kills expectation, trapping our heart forever in the present. To keep desire alive and flourishing, we must renew our vision for what lies ahead. Things will not always be like this. Jesus has promised to “make all things new.” Eye has not seen, ear has not heard all that God has in store for his lovers, which does not mean “we have no clue so don’t even try to imagine,” but rather, you cannot outdream God. Desire is kept alive by imagination, the antidote to resignation. We will need imagination, which is to say, we will need hope.”

John Eldredge

Source: The Sacred Romance Drawing Closer To The Heart Of God

God, Lie, Hope, Imagination

“I love you, too."
But this hopeful farewell does little to bring peace of mind, even now.
Loving you has never been the problem.
What's troubling me is how loving you may never be enough.”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Fourth Comings

Love, Peace, Hope, Problem

“Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”

Mark Twain book Pudd'nhead Wilson

Variant: Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson

Cute

“I'll find you again. Even if it takes a hundred of those years.”

P. C. Cast book Burned

Source: Burned

“Even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.”

Christopher Paolini book Inheritance

Source: Inheritance

“The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.”

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927) Indian Sufi

Life, Learning

“That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Madness

“I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company.”

Jane Goodall (1934) British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist

Thinking

“Even the birds above the lake
Are singing of my love,
And even the flowers along the shore
Are growing for her sake.

All the vines are ripening
And the trees come into bud,
For my love's footsteps passing by
Are summoning the spring.

Rian's stars in the night
Shine more brightly over her,
The god's moon and the goddess's
Guard her with their light.

Even the birds above the lake
Are singing of my love,
And even the flowers along the shore
Are growing for her sake”

Guy Gavriel Kay (1954) Canadian author of fantasy fiction

Source: A Song for Arbonne

Love, God, Star, Spring

“How do you regret one of the best nights of your entire life? You don't. You remember every word, every look. Even when it hurts, you still remember.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Life, Hurt, Night

“If you’ll dare to take your mind off your troubles, get your mind off your own needs and, instead, seek to be a blessing to other people, God will do more for you than you could even ask or think.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

God, People, Thinking

“Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.”

Virginia Woolf book Night and Day

Source: Night and Day

Beauty, Winter

“Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way.”

Stanisław Lem (1921–2006) Polish science fiction author

"Pirx's Tale" in More Tales of Pirx The Pilot (1983)
Context: Oh, I read good books, too, but only Earthside. Why that is, I don't really know. Never stopped to analyze it. Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way. When they talk about outer space, they make you feel the silence, so unlike the Earthly kind — and the lifelessness. Whatever the adventures, the message is always the same: humans will never feel at home out there.

Truth, Books, Way

“How terrible," said Eragon, "to die alone, separate even from the one who is closest to you."”

Christopher Paolini book Eldest

Source: Eldest

“Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“Some risks are worth taking, even if it means losing a life.”

Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire

Source: The Throne of Fire

Life

“A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people, because he is still not the "One and Only" to anyone.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

29 December 1943
The Diary of a Young Girl (1942 - 1944)
Variant: You can be lonely even when you're loved by many people, since you're still not anybody's "one and only".
Source: Cliffs Notes on Frank's The Diary of Anne Frank

Love, People, Personality

“God loves you even on your blackest days, and He will always, be there to guide you home. All you have to do is look for the light of His love.”

Lauren Myracle book Shine

Source: Shine

Love, God, Home, Light

“The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.”

Alan Paton book Cry, the Beloved Country

Source: Cry, the Beloved Country

People, Justice, Law

“Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Peace, Joy, Wealth

“Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don't live in a world all of your own.”

Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher

World

“Life is serious. (Valerius)
No, life is an adventure. It's thrilling and scary. Sometimes it's even a bit boring, but it should never be serious. (Tabitha)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Seize the Night

Life

“You see, Kenny, there are some things you don't even know you know, until you're asked.”

Christopher Isherwood book A Single Man

Source: A Single Man

“A little Madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King.”

Emily Dickinson A little Madness in the Spring

1333: A little Madness in the Spring
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)

Spring, Madness

“Too many things are occurring for even a big heart to hold.”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

Heart

“Eternal tourists of ourselves, there is no landscape but what we are. We possess nothing, for we don’t even possess ourselves. We have nothing because we are nothing. What hand will I reach out, and to what universe? The universe isn’t mine: it’s me.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

Universe

“Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.”

Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher

Source: The Spiritual Life (1947), p. 164
Context: Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it. A strength which becomes clearer and stronger through its experience of such obstacles is the only strength that can conquer them. Resistance is only a waste of strength.

People, Way

“We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate.”

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer

“I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course--the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end.”

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist

“It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

Law, Personality

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