Evening
Evening in its primary meaning is the period of the day between afternoon and night. Though the term is subjective, evening is typically understood to begin just before dusk, when temperatures begin to fall, and last until just after nightfall, when complete darkness has been reached.
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Famous quotes containing the word evening:
“Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.”
—Heraclitus (c. 535–475 B.C.)
“Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!”
—Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)