Quotes About Night

In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her whole song of sorrow just for me. I helped her put me to sleep, so to speak, and succeeded pretty well... I wasn't entirely alone... It's not possible to sleep alone...

Chin up, Ferdinand, I kept saying to myself, to keep up my courage. What with being chucked out of everywhere, you're sure to find whatever it is that scares all those bastards so. It must be at the end of the night, and that's why they're so dead set against going to the end of the night.

Tu finiras sûrement par le trouver le truc qui leur fait si peur, à eux tous, à tous ces salauds là, autant qu'ils sont et qui doit être au bout de la nuit, et c'est pour ça qu'ils n'y vont pas, au bout de la nuit.

The nights in Billancourt were soft and sweet, enlivened now and again by those childish airplane or zeppelin alarms which provided the civilian population with thrills and self-justification.

Ainsi tourne le monde à travers la nuit énormément menaçante et silencieuse.

Stars were caught in the tree branches. She wished she could keep stars in her pocket, just to give him every time she saw him.

Violence merely increases hate . . . adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.' Dr. Martin Luther King

Corvus Corax is Latin for raven," she said. "I asked her what the significance was. She said that the raven is one of the smartest birds, entirely black to blend into the night. There's a legend, dating back to medieval times, that England could never be conquered as long as there were ravens at the Tower of London.

the green numerals of Jo's bedside clock telling her that it was 3.08: insomniacs' hour.

It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.

Just to love! She did not ask to be loved. It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.

As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild, lawless strain hidden deep in Emily's nature—the strain of the gypsy and the poet, the genius and the fool.

Don't let a three-o'clock-at-night feeling fog your soul.

In the middle of the night, Miss Clavel turned on the light and said, something is not right! 1941 - Ludwig Bemelmans (American, 1898–1962) -

Una notte di giugno caddi come una lucciola sotto un pino solitario in una campagna di olivi saraceni affacciata agli orli di un altopiano d'argille azzurre sul mare africano.                                                                   

Owls visited them at night. Some thought the owls were witches. Some thought they were angels of death. Some thought they were holy and brought blessings. Some thought they were the restless spirits of the dead. The cowboys thought they were owls.

His older brother was to make sure he did as Graham wasn't going out that night because he had a very bad head cold and a sore throat, neither of which were very conducive to enjoying dancing the night away in the smoky atmosphere of a club. Jean and Dee

night. She was taking more of an interest in things and her appetite had improved with the result that she was looking much better. She had persuaded both girls to go out for a walk. It was cold but bright and sunny. 'It will do you both good. You don't

Above me soft footsteps, the sound through the ceiling of a teenager haunted by a door to the night. My cousin Maybonne lights up a Salem, blows ghosts to the darkness, be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

In the night when the moon is large, the world spreads blue in every direction.

The owl," he was saying, "is one of the most curious creatures. A bird that stays awake when the rest of the world sleeps. They can see in the dark. I find that so interesting, to be mired in reality when the rest of the world is dreaming. What does he see and what does he know that the rest of the world is missing?

It was a troubled night, the last they spent in the castle. Not many slept. But the lord of it had long understood that what could cease to be his never had been his, and slept like a child.

concluo que um dos ofícios do homem é fechar e apertar muito os olhos, e ver se continua pela noite velha o sonho truncado na noite moça.

senti que os pensamentos dolorosos que me haviam torturado durante a noite esvaneceram-se à luz da manhã, como verdadeiras aves da noite e da solidão (Confissões de uma viúva moça)