Quotes About Night

It's just a house. Lots of houses seem scary at night, but in the morning, they are friendly again.

We burned them all. On a night when Granddad and the rest had taken boats across the bay, When the staff was off duty And we liars we're alone on the island, The four of us did what we were afraid to do. We burned not a home, but a symbol. We burned a symbol to the ground.

It's the moonlight. Makes all the girls look pretty.

London was beginning to illuminate herself against the night. Electric lights sizzled and jagged in the main thoroughfares, gas-lamps in the side streets glimmered a canary gold or green. The sky was a crimson battlefield of spring, but London was not afraid. Her smoke mitigated the splendour, and the clouds down Oxford Street were a delicately painted ceiling, which adorned while it did not distract.

It never bored them to hear words, words; they breathed them with the cool night air, never stopping to analyse; the name of the poet, Hafiz, Hali, Iqbal, was sufficient guarantee. India—a hundred Indias—whispered outside beneath the indifferent moon, but for the time India seemed one and their own, and they regained their departed greatness by hearing its departure lamented, they felt young again because reminded that youth must fly.

She watched the moon, whose radiance stained with primrose the purple of the surrounding sky. In England the moon had seemed dead and alien; here she was caught in the shawl of night together with earth and all the other stars.

It never bored them to hear words, words; they breathed them with the cool night air.

And Leonard had reached the destination. He had visited the county of Surrey when darkness covered its amenities, and its cosy villas had re-entered ancient night. Every twelve hours this miracle happens, but he had troubled to go and see for himself.

Both times it was loneliness, and the night, and panic afterwards.

Uma noite, pouco antes das dez horas, escapou-se para Trinity e aguardou no Grande Claustro que os portões se fechassem atrás dele. (...) Estava no meio de homens de Trinity - todos de imensa inteligência e cultura. O grupo de Maurice gozava com Trinity, mas não podiam ignorar o seu esplendor arrogante, ou negar a superioridade que mal se dá ao trabalho de se afirmar. ----------------------------------------------------- P.38, MAURICE, E.M. FORSTER

The night received her, as it had received Miss Bartlett thirty years before.

She was glad of a moment without talk. For this, after all, was the time she loved Waikiki best. So brief, this tropic dusk, so quick the coming of the soft alluring night. The carpet of the waters, apple-green by day, crimson and gold at sunset, was a deep purple now. On

The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

There's a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the night's.

them perhaps half an hour to finish all they have to do. Alan gets behind the wheel and honks the horn. In the stillness of the night, it sounds like

There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.

The skies they were ashen and sober;The leaves they were crispèd and sere—The leaves they were withering and sere:It was night in the lonesome OctoberOf my most immemorial year.

Every moment of the night Forever changing places And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces

"Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore—Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!"Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.

Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.

Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance...

He says he went for a walk, and didn't get home till 11.45. I distrust people,' Stagge added peevishly, 'who go for walks at night. It isn't natural.

Vntroubled night they say giues counsell best.