night Quotes

“He came in to demand an answer and I told him the truth. That I have fought with myself over that night, one half of me swearing blind that I tied a simple slipknot, the other half convinced that I tied the Langford double. I can never know for sure.”

“Night has patterns that can be read
less by the living than by the dead.”

“All nights are dark days, because night is simply a badly lit version of day.”

“Sully strains to say his phrases,
sickened by the sounds he raises,
strings of thoughts come out in knots,
he solves his sentences like mazes.
At night, he writes his thoughts instead
and sighs as they steadily rush from his head.”

“Stars and shadows ain’t good to see by.”

’Later that night, Dad stopped the car out in the middle of the desert, and we slept under the stars. We had no pillows, but Dad said that was part of his plan. He was teaching us to have good posture. The Indians didn’t use pillows, either, he explained, and look how straight they stood. We did have our scratchy army-surplus blankets, so we spread them out and lay there, looking up at the field of stars. I told Lori how lucky we were to be sleeping out under the sky like Indians.

‘We could live like this forever,’ I said.

‘I think we’re going to,’ she said.”

“All alone, in the middle of the night, Coraline began to cry. There was no other sound in the empty flat.”

“And if at night one holds you closely pressed,
locked in his prayers so you cannot stray,
…..you are the guest
…..who comes, but not to stay.”

“This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best.
Night, sleep, and the stars.”

“The blacker the night around us grew, the brighter and truer and more beautiful burned the word of God.”

“I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars.”

“Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.”

“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.”

“This is how I think of us, when I remember our nights at Troy: Achilles and I beside each other, Phoinix smiling and Automedon stuttering through the punch lines of jokes, and Briseis with her secret eyes and quick, spilling laughter.”

“This is the War’s evensong, the War’s canonical hour, and the night is real.

“A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going. And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon, and darkness crept over the land from the east.”

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”

“For May will have no sluggardry at night,
Season that pricks in every gentle heart,
Awaking it from sleep, and bids it start”

“And on special dank midnights in August, he peeks out of the shutters and sometimes he speaks.”

“Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness.”

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”

“I spent a long time trying to find my center until I looked closely at it one night & found it had wheels and moved easily in the slightest breeze. So now I spend less time sitting and more time sailing. ”

“This only was wanting. Now comes the night.”

“So, surrender to sleep at last. What a misery, keeping watch through the night, wide awake -- you’ll soon come up from under all your troubles.”

“Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.”

“Home is behind, the world ahead,
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night,
Until the stars are all alight.”

“Goodnight stars
Goodnight air
Goodnight noises everywhere”

“And goodnight to the old lady whispering ‘hush’”

“In the great green room
There was a telephone
And a red balloon”

“Goodnight room
Goodnight moon”

“There was something to be said about the quietness of night. About the stillness. Everything was tranquil and unmoving as though the world had come to a temporary stop in its rotation—ceased its constant spiral of madness.”

“Be inside by nightfall. Lock all doors and windows. Deny entry to strangers. Shed light inside and out. Prepare candles and lanterns fro when the electricity fails. Wear silver. If caught outdoors, find running water.

“Your mind will keep you up at night, make you cry, destroy you over and over again. You need to convince your mind that it has to let go…because your heart already knows how to heal.”

“We often sneaked out at night to, for example, sing ‘American Pie’ beneath the window of the captain of the cheerleading team. (Her father was a local minister and so, we reasoned, less likely to shoot). After I was caught returning at dawn from one such late-night escapade, my worried mother thoroughly interrogated me regarding every drug teenagers take, never suspecting that the most intoxicating thing I’d experienced, by far, was the volume of romantic poetry she’d handed me the previous week.”

“Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart?”

“To know the darkness is to love the light,
to welcome dawn and fear the coming night.”

“The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves.”

“Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night;
Give me my Romeo; and, when I shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night...”

″[T]he night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.”

“The air was full of all the night noises that, taken together, make one big silence.”

“Wild nights are my glory!”

“Twilight, again,” he murmured. “Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.”

“Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights;
Four nights will quickly dream away the time.”

“A guy sets alone out here at night, maybe readin’ books or thinkin’ or stuff like that.”

“Tonight I’m gonna lay right here and look up. I like it.”

“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”

“Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.”

In the cold and the darkness, a poor little girl, with bare head and naked feet, roamed through the streets.

“I like to hop all day and night from right to left and left to right.”

“All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely preambulations, yet daylight put an end to all these evils.”

His descent was like nightfall.

“In that moonlit hours, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things. I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as if it wasn’t the opposite of day, but its underside, its private side, when the fabulous purred on my snow-white sheet like some dark cat come in from the desert.”

“Many nights I drifted off to sleep to his rumbling voice reading from a book of battle strategy. And despite myself, despite what he’d done and what he was, I came to love him. It’s just not a comfortable kind of love.”

“Do you lie awake at night to come up with all you witty replies for the following day?”

“I had a dream about you last night. I could fly. I was going to use this power to impress you, but you were too heavy to carry, so I won you over with my personality instead.”

“I was a loosened, a top whirling around and around, and I didn’t know who I danced with or what they looked like, only that I had become the music and the fire and the night, and there was nothing that could slow me down.”

“You look like a winter night”, he had told her when he had given it to her. “I could sleep inside the cold of you”.”

“There is no sun without the shadow, and it is essential to know the night. The absurd man says yes and his efforts will henceforth be unceasing.”

“‘Good night, good night, parting is such sweet sorrow,’ she whispered.
‘That I shall say good night till it be morrow,’ Harry replied.”

“I done me best when I was let. Thinking always if I go all goes. A hundred cares, a tithe of troubles and is there one who understands me? One in a thousand of years of the nights? All me life I have been lived among them but now they are becoming lothed to me.”

“This is ... this is going to be a fun night.”

“I was starving until one night
My love tricked God Himself
To fall into my bowl.”

“Stay home and the crooks win. They get the night, by default and concession, the night which should rightly belong to all of us.”

“In those hours he is awake and prowling through the building, he sometimes feels he is a demon who has disguised himself as a human, and only at night is it safe to shed the costume he must wear by daylight, and indulge his true nature.”

“How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night? Let me think: *was* I the same when I got up this morning?”