Evening is a time of day that can be both relaxing and inspiring. As the sun sets, it’s a great opportunity to reflect on the day and think about what you want to accomplish tomorrow. Here are some quotes to help motivate you as you finish up your day.

The best evening quotes

1. To me at least was never evening yet, but seemed far beautifuller than its day. — Robert Browning

2. Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed? — Stephen King

3. The moon blows kisses to the evening primrose — Richard L. Ratliff

4. Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting. — Robert Southey

5. These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night’s arms. — Pedro Calderon De La Barca

6. Don’t give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can’t wear in the evening. — Oscar Wilde

7. Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

8. I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening. — Naguib Mahfouz

9. I let the evening unfold. I’m the sort of guy who likes to sit in the chair and look at the wine glass. — Roger Federer

10. One man starving puts a crimp in my evening. — Woody Allen

11. We live in an age that cannibalises its past because it has lost faith in its future. — Paul McAuley, Evening’s Empires

12. One man starving puts a crimp in my evening. — Woody Allen

13. I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. — Raymond Chandler

14. And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but sleep, and it is well to gather a treasure of them. — Vincent Van Gogh

15. I’m walking out now into the soft light, the cooling him of evening, and I will love you tonight, and tomorrow, and still many more, so very many tomorrows. — Vladimir Nabokov

16. I love to put on diamonds and beautiful evening gowns and make my girl–friends upset. — Zsa Zsa Gabor

17. Wonder what it’s like to have a peaceful life, ‘ Ron sighed, as evening after evening they struggled through all the extra homework they were getting. — J. K. Rowling

18. He would have lied to himself as facilely as an alcoholic lies to himself to justify the 10 a.m. tumbler of vodka : it may be early here, but in Baghdad it’s almost evening. — Peter Benchley

19. The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. — Oliver Wendell Holmes

20. The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That’s all. — Martin Luther King

21. Holding the eveningtremblingly close to mei weepinto the sun lettingthe burdenof hopelift off my chesti realizethis is what it meansto be free. — Sanober Khan

22. I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home. — Norman Fell

23. If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening. — William Shakespeare

24. The redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue black. — Sue Monk Kidd

25. To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening. — Saki, Reginald

26. At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings. — Wallace Stevens

27. The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That’s all. — Martin Luther King

28. We were still children and residing in the mosque from morning to evening. We were about to turn into monsters. — M.F. Moonzajer

29. The sun had just slipped behind the trees and evening cast its dark, smoky shadow. — Nancy B. Brewer

30. The days had become a confusion of catastrophes — what seemed impossible in the afternoon was blunt fact by the evening.

31. I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. — Raymond Chandler

32. This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning and evening were made in them. — Saint Augustine

33. Every evening words, not stars, light the sky. No rest in life like life itself. — Umberto Saba

34. As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow… may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, ‘yes. — Mary Anne Radmacher

35. Her shoes were comfortable. They reflected her hope for the evening. — William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

36. What I always expect to deliver to my audience is a very entertaining evening of singing and playing. — Steve Miller

37. One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been. — Sophocles

38. I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star. — Rumi

39. I’ve changed my ways a little, I cannot nowRun with you in the evenings along the shore, Except in a kind of dream, and you, if you dream a moment, You see me there. — Robinson Jeffers

40. In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America. — P. J. O’Rourke

41. Love … was part imagination, its web spun as much in the dark lonely separated evenings of longing as in the shared times together. — Niall Williams, Four Letters of Love

42. The sun had just slipped behind the trees and evening cast its dark, smoky shadow. — Nancy B. Brewer

43. Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You’ve been in make–up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her. — Tony Randall

44. Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting. — Robert Southey

45. In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord. — Van Morrison

46. My mother always seemed to me like a fairy princess: a radiant being possessed of limitless riches and power. She shone for me like the evening star. I loved her dearly. — Winston Churchill

47. My day starts at 8 in the morning. I have meetings through the day into the evening and very often dinners and benefits at night. This is nonstop. — Thomas P. Campbell

48. Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening. — Simon Callow

49. The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That’s all. — Martin Luther King

50. I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths. — Shonda Rhimes

Conclusion

We all have a different definition of what is beautiful and meaningful to us. The most important thing is to find a way to express it in our own unique way and make the most of the evening that lies ahead. No matter how it looks, the evening is always a special time for reflection, peace, and contemplation.