Definition of Twilight

Twilight

The light perceived before the rising, and after the setting, of the sun, or when the sun is less than 18� below the horizon, occasioned by the illumination of the earth's atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.

faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which anything is viewed.

Seen or done by twilight.

Imperfectly illuminated; shaded; obscure.

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Twilight Quotations

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Albert Camus

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.
Woodrow Wilson

Love prefers twilight to daylight.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H. G. Wells

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
Henry Ward Beecher

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
Karl Von Clausewitz

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Hubert H. Humphrey

I've been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had their career.
Martina Navratilova

I'm really proud of Twilight. I think it's a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don't take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there's literally like a thousand girls and they're all screaming your name, you're like, why? You don't feel like you deserve it.
Kristen Stewart

Sure, 'Twilight' is really huge right now and everybody's freaking out over it, but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what I'm used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees.
Kristen Stewart

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.
Lucy Maud Montgomery

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
George Edward Moore

In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
Upton Sinclair

The day I finished 'Twilight', I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon', I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in Twilight.
Taylor Lautner

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!
Rita Dove

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
Jean Paul

I wanted to play piano in restaurants in the south of France. I went there on holiday once and I saw this guy playing in an old tuxedo. He was all disheveled, with a whisky glass on the piano. I thought that was the coolest thing. So what's happened to me with 'Twilight' isn't really what I'd planned.
Robert Pattinson

The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle.
Christa McAuliffe

The more kind of head trippy sci-fi. I always like that. I was a big 'Twilight Zone' freak.
Ethan Hawke

I don't know if I could ever really be cast in a heartthrob role apart from 'Twilight,' which I didn't really know was a heartthrob role. I really don't feel I am one.
Robert Pattinson

In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.
Paul Harris

I realize that I'm in the twilight of my career.
Michael Chang

It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.
Jackie Weaver

The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in 'The Twilight Zone'.
Morgan Brittany

Well, I just finished starring in a new episode of the new The Twilight Zone television series.
Bill Mumy

Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.
Howard Thurman

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.
Richard Foreman

Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.
George William Russell

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Twilight Translations

twilight in Afrikaans is skemer
twilight in Dutch is halfdonker, schemer, schemerdonker
twilight in Latin is crepusculum
twilight in Norwegian is skumring
twilight in Swedish is skymning

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