Quotes about Twilight
So they continued on their journey, and the sun set as they neared Gibeah in Benjamin.
- Judges 19:14
And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped, except four hundred young men who fled, riding off on camels.
- 1 Samuel 30:17
So they arose at twilight and went to the camp of the Arameans. But when they came to the outskirts of the camp, there was not a man to be found.
- 2 Kings 7:5
Thus the Arameans had arisen and fled at twilight, abandoning their tents and horses and donkeys. The camp was intact, and they had run for their lives.
- 2 Kings 7:7
The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.
- Job 24:15
at twilight, as the day was fading into the dark of the night.
- Proverbs 7:9
at twilight, as the day was fading into the dark of the night.
- Proverbs 7:9
My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight of my desire has turned to horror.
- Isaiah 21:4
Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.
- Isaiah 59:10
The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving her hands indefatigably yet quietly, she seemed like the champion of the rights of sleepers, like one of those spectral presences which rise in twilight in woods made of sky and branches.
- Virginia Woolf
Now all the candles were lit, and the faces on both sides of the table were brought nearer by the candle light, and composed, as they had not been in the twilight, into a party round a table
- Virginia Woolf
The boy stood up and got his broom and put it over his shoulder. He looked at his father. What are our long term goals? he said. What? Our long term goals. Where did you hear that? I dont know. No, where did you? You said it. When? A long time ago. What was the answer? I dont know. Well. I dont either. Come on. It's getting dark.
- Cormac McCarthy