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Quotes About Nights

. . .my dreams are the single unpredictable factor in my zoned days and nights. Nobody allots them, or censors them. Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.
~ David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
They danced. For three long winter nights. They slept through the short times of light, curled in each other's company. She gave him gifts: a lapwing wrapped in feathers, beaded with frost, a bowl of bright rosehips.
~ Unknown
They were laughter on hot city nights hot milk on cold city mornings, good food and good times fancy dancing and soul music. They were family.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
I thought of how many nights I had lain awake in this room, loving him in silence
~ Madeline Miller
The worst nights passed and the sun once again gave us hope to a new life, a new opportunity.
~ Unknown
The poem is neither here nor there, and with a girl's breast it can illuminate the nights. With the glow of an apple it fills two bodies with light and with a gardenia's breath it can revive a homeland!
~ Mahmoud Darwish
But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
~ John Muir
I live for the nights that I cant remember, with the people that I wont forget.
~ Drake
Put on your yarmulke, Here comes Hanukkah! So much funukah, To celebrate Hanukkah! Hanukkah is the festival of lights. Instead of one day of presents, we have eight crazy nights.
~ Adam Sandler
I entered the City of Books, dark jewels hoarded in temples and cathedrals. In this city I found buried candelabra and stories waiting to be read during nights of sea and moon. I loved the City of Books where lost gazelles wandered in search of signs.
~ Unknown
For some days before, as well as for some nights, Vincent had observed a shadow about the quays. First because it had tried to sell him an obscene book, then because it tried to sell André an obscene book, then because it tried to sell everybody an obscene book.
~ Mary Butts
Be thankful for nights that turned into mornings, friends that turned into family, and past dreams and goals that turned into realities. And use this mindset of positivity to fuel an even brighter today and tomorrow.
~ Unknown
I would prefer not to: this sentence speaks in the intimacy of our nights: negative preference, the negation that effaces preference and is effaced therein: the neutrality of that which is not among the things there are to do.
~ Maurice Blanchot
oh candlelight upon your face, oh sad shadow of screen across your breast, oh love of life in my shadow— these, and the winter nights beside you, I remember and forget.
~ Unknown
Sometimes," she murmured, "on cold, starry nights in Minnesota, if you stand really still and listen really hard . . . you'll freeze solid.
~ Unknown
A toast to the birthday boy!' Myrna shouted. 'Welcome to the adult world, hon. It's lonely, it's miserable, and God help you. But there are bright spots, and nights like tonight are one of them.
~ Unknown
That was one of the most rewarding things about spending nights in the open. Birds were bound to wake you up, and whether they carried good or bad luck, at least they woke you up with music.
~ Ng?g? wa Thiong'o
molto tempo dopo, qualcuno mi ha assicurato che l'unica cosa impossibile da ricordare è il timbro delle voci. Eppure, ancora oggi, durante le mie notti insonni, sento spesso la voce dall'accento parigino - quello delle strade in salita- dirmi:"Allora, la sta trovando la sua felicità?". Una frase che conserva ancora oggi tutta la sua gentilezza e il suo mistero.
~ Patrick Modiano
As I write this entry in my diary, I myself feel like a diary which has been left out in the rain, from which the moisture has washed away the cramped inky writing, the record of thousands of days and nights, leaving only a blank and sodden page.
~ Unknown
The confused murmur of his nights began to rise, expected but not familiar
~ Paul Valery
Some nights I would try to close the distance and make love to Jock.
~ Paula McLain
Light came through the window, trickling morning all over the room. Tatiana Metanova slept the sleep of the innocent, the sleep of restless joy, of warm, white Leningrad nights, of jasmine June. But most of all, intoxicated with life, she slept the exuberant sleep of undaunted youth. She did not sleep for much longer.
~ Paullina Simons
Ozzie would have loved to dive right in and give himself a decent clean, but even though they still hadn't seen a single living creature on this world, he just couldn't quite bring himself to trust the water. Too many late student nights with a pizza, a couple of six-packs, some grass, and a bad sci-fi DVD. God only knew what lurked along the bottom of the river, maybe nothing, but he certainly wasn't going to wind up with alien eggs hatching out of his ass, thank you.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
~ Exodus 24:18