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Quotes About Nocturnal

I get restless of the night.
~ Chris Offutt
This Roberto. He no like the light.
~ Christopher Moore
The visit took place. It was a formidable campaign; a nocturnal battle against pestilence and suffocation.
~ Victor Hugo
When nightfall weaves its way through the New York Public Library, it is nothing shy of magic. Long stretched of sunlight on marble morph from white to yellow to pink to orange to red, the dim slowly, completely. Shadows yawn and stretch awake. Eighty-five miles of books on shelves blink away their daytime sleep, for book are often nocturnal creatures, ready to play. To roam. To hunt.
~ Kristin O'Donnell Tubb
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The little owls call to each other with tremulous, quavering voices throughout the livelong night, as they sit in the creaking trees.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Dreams are nocturnal flowers, blooming when the sun has strayed far enough that we can see clearly.
~ Terri Guillemets
It was the hour when darkness begins, when the sounds of the night begin.
~ James Baldwin
[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.
~ Charles Dickens
My father was a misanthrope who slept all day and stayed up all night so that he wouldn't have to see people. He ran a business with a large staff but would go there at night and leave things for them to do during the day when he wasn't there.
~ Edmund White
I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.
~ Rachel Nichols
The multicolored leaves were softly glowing against the black sky, creating an untimely nocturnal rainbow which scattered its spectral tints everywhere and dyed the night with a harvest of hues: peach gold and pumpkin orange, honey yellow and winy amber, apple red and plum violet. Luminous within their leafy shapes, the colors cast themselves across the darkness and were splattered upon our streets and our fields and our faces. Everything was resplendent with the pyrotechnics of a new autumn.
~ Thomas Ligotti
I'm basically nocturnal.
~ B. D. Wong
The Italians are called Children of the Sun. They might better be called Children of the Shadow. Their souls are dark and nocturnal.
~ D.H. Lawrence
People who snore always fall asleep first.
~ Author Unknown
I stayed up all night reading.
~ Lemony Snicket
I liked dark, urban stories like 'Peter Gunn,' which was a detective series on network TV when I was a little boy. I grew up in a farmtown in the Midwest where not much exciting happened. I liked the idea of lives lived at night and the shadowy characters who lived in that demi-monde.
~ Michael Emerson
A beaver is about like the ninjas the suckers only work at night and they're hard to find.
~ Si Robertson
I'm a comic, so I like to stay nocturnal. I work 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.
~ Artie Lange
No lawyers in Nekropolis. They're too scary even for this city.
~ Tim Waggoner
Huntress of the depths of my eyes, your plunder stills your nocturnal regard as though it were water.
~ Pablo Neruda
A dream is a kind of nocturnal drama to which the only price of admission is falling asleep.
~ Henry Gleitman
Here in this moment we are beautiful, nocturnal creatures and our thoughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon.
~ Henry Rollins
It's furry and sleeps upside down and has a really chewy tail," said
~ Tui T. Sutherland