Night Quotes
I got tired of feeling like Dracula. I wanted to see some daylight, and not just at six o’clock in t...
Show MoreI realized I still had my eyes shut. I had shut them when I put my face to the screen, like I was sc...
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Something moved on the grounds down beneath my window — cast a long spider of shadow out across the ...
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When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in wh...
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I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had me...
Show MoreYou know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that ...
Show MoreHe was in a fairy kingdom where everything was possible.He looked up at the sky. And the sky was a f...
Show MoreWe turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and wen...
Show MoreYou've seen one of the our gigs you've seen 'em all. But if you're into the music, you'll know that ...
Show MoreFor the night Shows stars and women in a better light.
I can see lights in the distance trembling in the dark cloak of nightCandles and lanterns are dancin...
Show MoreChin up, Ferdinand," I kept saying to myself, to keep up my courage. "What with being chucked out of...
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Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages ar...
Show MoreBound, elbow to elbow, darkness and night entered the dwelling.
I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middl...
Show MoreLords of spirit, Lords of breath,Lords of fireflies, stars, and light,Who will keep the world from d...
Show MoreThen she called Gansey.It rang twice, three times, and then: "Hello?"He sounded boyish and ordinary....
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that's because it's from the night, and the night keeps secrets

Hurry up, before there's no more night left.

Gansey always thought that, after dark, it felt like anything could happen. At night, Henrietta felt...
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Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
Occasionally I looked up towards some vast old apartment with its shutters still open and where amph...
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...yes, in the obscured sky a moon does float, newly, a wishing moon, a sliver of ancient rock, a go...
Show MoreWhy is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you c...
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Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you...
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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at ...
Show MoreI've often been sorry to see a night end, even while I have loved seeing the dawn come.
My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick ...
Show MoreSome of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd si...
Show MoreA good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the ...
Show MoreSomewhere in the night ahuman being is drowning.

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glass...
Show MoreAll night the earth and the heavens followed their usual arrangements. Stars passed: an immense tide...
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I used to start at about 10 at night and work until early morning. My preferred way to work is to st...
Show MoreHe stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I...
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It was nearing 9 O'clock, and the fist duck was drawing down. Behind the trees, the first star prick...
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The sea is calm tonight.The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits;- on the French coast t...
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There needs but so little to encourage beauty in our soul; so little to awaken the slumbering angels...
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The road was wet with rain, black and shiny like oilskin. The reflection of the street lamps wallowe...
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It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped F...
Show MoreTo my mind, 'Dear Brutus' stands halfway between Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and Steph...
Show MoreOne in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion sta...
Show MoreI recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was proli...
Show MoreAli's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the night; and when ...
Show MoreAn infinite, inscrutable blackness has annihilated sight! Where is our universe? All crumbled away f...
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Now there were stars overhead, hanging like frozen spears of light, stabbing the night sky.

The autumn twilight turned into deep and early night as they walked. Tristran could smell the distan...
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Slowly gently night creeps up on you, more gentle than light, it helps you realize how much the ligh...
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In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the ...
Show MoreI want to go home at night and feel discomfort.
At night the sky is pure astronomy.

I went to the little window and inhaled the country air. One could hear the breathing of the night, ...
Show MoreThe blue light of the rising moon fell on the rocks and the scant forest of the taiga, revealing eac...
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I went to the little window and inhaled the country air. One could hear the breathing of the night, ...
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At first I couldn't see anything. I fumbled along the cobblestone street. I lit a cigarette. Suddenl...
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The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make u...
Show MoreMiddle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope i...
Show MoreWhat happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we'd have...
Show MoreI am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and...
Show MoreBy night, beloved, tie your heart to mineand let them both in dreams defeat the darkness

It is the hour of departure, the hard cold hour which the night fastens to all timetables.

I do this so you cannot help but hear. a wise man views a moonless night with fear.

However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she wa...
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening ...
Show MoreAnd now we come to the Heart of our Designe: the art of Shaddowes you must know well, Walter, and yo...
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Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights whi...
Show MoreYou have to be very deep to be dead, he thought, and I'm not. He began to have some concept of forev...
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Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.
Neither father nor son moved, but stayed face to face for hours and hours, neither looking away nor ...
Show MoreIt was the Kojagar full moon, and I was slowly pacing the riverside conversing with myself. It could...
Show MoreEverything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbel...
Show MoreIf the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and prese...
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I got a statistic for you right now. Grab your pencil, Doug. There are five billion trees in the wor...
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Oh God, midnight’s not bad, you wake and go back to sleep, one or two’s not bad, you toss but sleep ...
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On rare occasions, Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in...
Show MoreIt looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better ...
Show MoreThere is a romance about all those who are abroad in the black hours.
Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with thei...
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Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.

Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely da...
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My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming ho...
Show MoreNot the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor th...
Show MoreA regular old drag queen is usually your science teacher who's actually wearing women's panties unde...
Show MoreI want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's just for ...
Show MorePrepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
Down the hill I went, and then,I forgot the ways of men,For night-scents, heady and damp and coolWak...
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Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours," muttered Locke, pointing the first ...
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Twilight was laying claim to the cité, and the sky was a deepening shade of lavender, spangled with ...
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Outside, the sky was clear, stars gleaming in its ebony vastness like celestial fireflies. It was bi...
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I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Fi...
Show MoreThe result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my ...
Show MoreThe night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start r...
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I was raised in an evangelical Methodist church. Evangelical meant that though you had been baptized...
Show MoreI literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It...
Show MoreI liked comedy as a kid. When I was a kid, I'd go to sleep to, like, Bill Cosby albums every night. ...
Show MoreThe sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin t...
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Black as night and as beautiful as forever.

It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.
