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Quotes About Night

I have gone out, a possessed witch,haunting the black air, braver at night.
~ Anne Sexton
O starry night, This is how I want to die
~ Anne Sexton
Each night I am nailed into place and forget who I am. Daddy? That's another kind of prison. It's not the prince at all, but my father drunkeningly bends over my bed, circling the abyss like a shark, my father thick upon me like some sleeping jellyfish. What voyage is this, little girl? This coming out of prison? God help - this life after death?
~ Anne Sexton
Moon girls, where did you go?
~ Anne Sexton
I have gone out, a possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night; dreaming evil, I have done my hitch over the plain houses, light by light: lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind. A woman like that is not a woman, quite. I have been her kind.
~ Anne Sexton
At night the bats will beat on the trees, knowing it all, seeing what they sensed all day....
~ Anne Sexton
Tonight the landscape is fired by moonlight and I am thinking of you somehow.
~ Anne Sexton
Un bacio nell'incavo del ginocchio è un fruscio di falena alla zanzariera e sì amore mio un puntino luminoso sull'ecometro è Campanellino con la tossetta e due volte perderò l'onore e le stelle saranno confitte come puntine nella notte sì oh sì sì sì due chioccioline all'incavo del ginocchio che accen- dono falò simili a ci- glia che sfregano sì sì sì come pietrina d'accendino bic: e così esisto!
~ Anne Sexton
He read me the Bible to prove I was sinful. For in the night he was betrayed. And then he let me give him a Judas-kiss, that red lock that held us in place, and then I gave him a drink from my cup and he whispered, "Rape, rape." And then I gave him my wrist and he sucked on the blood, hating himself for it, murmuring, "God will see. God will see.
~ Anne Sexton
and only as she dreamt of the yellow hair did moonlight sift into her mouth.
~ Anne Sexton
Jun Lloyd's been four times, once in the dead of night, and he says there's blood oozing out from under the front door, because Mr. Shank's stabbing everyone—
~ Annie Barrows
Quando di notte alzavamo la testa verso la luna, percepivamo in noi la vastità del mondo, la sentivamo brillare immobile sopra il brulichio ininterrotto di miliardi di individui. La coscienza si dilatava nello spazio totale del pianeta, verso altre galassie. L'infinito smetteva di essere immaginario. Ecco perché era inconcepibile dirsi che un giorno saremmo morti.
~ Annie Ernaux
Réveil blême dans la nuit. Effort pour éviter de penser à lui, en vain. Désir immédiat de passer un test de détection du sida. Comme un désir de mort et d'amour, « il m'aurait au moins laissé cela
~ Annie Ernaux
Je suis dans un état de douleur latente, de celle que masquent les insensibilisants pour un mal physique, écartelée par trois idées affreuses : 1) ne plus jamais le revoir Ã¢â'¬â€œ 2) avoir « perdu » plusieurs mois dans une passion non partagée Ã¢â'¬â€œ 3) humiliation de n'être plus autant désirée, admirée, par rapport aux premiers mois. Les réveils dans la nuit sont noirs.
~ Annie Ernaux
Lendemain de fête. Toute la nuit en rêves. Je ne me débarrasse pas de souvenirs précis (celui que je décris ci-dessus) et flous en même temps (je crois être restée dans ses bras à peu près quatre heures durant avec de brefs intermèdes pour aller chercher à manger, ou du café).
~ Annie Ernaux
As long as you're up, get me a Grant's.
~ Anonymous
I came up professionally as a lawyer, and when you're a lawyer, writing a 50-page brief in one night is just another day at the office. You learn to make choices really quickly, and you learn how to get thoughts down very quickly.
~ Marc Guggenheim
I wouldn't even go spend the night at a friend's unless they had a piano. But I didn't have the chops, the extraordinary talent, to be able to play the piano professionally.
~ Holly Hunter
That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.
~ Carmen Laforet
A lot of work and thinking goes into my DJing. I want the entire night to progress seamlessly and when I have to adapt the energy on the fly for the crowd on any given night, I can do so with harmonic mixes that I've practiced over and over again. I am far from the only DJ that does this and it's something I take pride in being able to do.
~ Avicii
We had to decide: Do we want to do Saturday Night or go to our Senior Prom? We opted for Saturday Night Live.
~ Mary-Kate Olsen
Always cleanse your skin at night. So much bacterial build-up happens over the day so at night you really need to take your time and cleanse properly.
~ Sarah Harding
Theatricals can be irritating, but will provide a better night out than mobile phone salespeople.
~ Arthur Smith
AGAMEMNON: I will not slay my children, nor shall thy interests be prospered by justice in thy vengeance for a worthless wife, while I am left wasting, night and day, in sorrow for what I did to one of my own flesh and blood, contrary to all law and justice.
~ Euripides