Quotes About Night

Night hath a thousand eyes.

I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.

Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.

She breathed the husky whisper—"Curfew must not ring tonight."

until the moon had waxed fat and thinned, and again grown heavy with the child of night,

Afterward, Sara didn't really remember falling asleep, still wearing her robe although she meant to get dressed and had had Serafina lay out a pair of jeans and a blouse for her. In any case, she had slept. And there had been dreams -- of the unsettling kind she didn't want to recall.

It is very hot tonight," Justin said, and loosed the folds of his light cloak, revealing the sprig of rye-grass thrust through the bronze clasp at the neck of his tunic.

Rain it did, and that night in the atrium of the old farmhouse, they could here it hushing and pattering on the roof and among the broad leaves of the fig-tree outside; and the little breath of air from the open door that scarcely stirred the flame of the lamp on the table bore with it that most wonderful of all smells, the throat-catching heart-catching scent of rain on a hot and thirsty earth.

Why should a deserter take the trouble to light Rutupiae Beacon?" Aquila demanded, and his voice sounded rough in is own ears. "Maybe in farewell, maybe in defiance. Maybe to hold back the dark for one more night.

Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight

Beyond a row of dwarf palms the sea was snoring and complaining like a drunk in a doorway.

Why not?" I said. "The night is young." I was lying. The night was old and chilly, with a slow heartbeat. The tires whined like starved cats on the fog-sprinkled black-top. The neons along the Strip glared with insomnia.

Nwt. Her name is the basis of English words such as nocturnal, night and equinox.

I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.

The historical record is like the night sky: we see a few stars and group them together into mythic constellations. But what is chiefly visible is the darkness.

Four AM last call proved to me that the late-night hours had a mystical, ethereal quality ripe with dangerous possibilities.

En una senda abandonada y triste que recorren tan sólo ángeles malos, una extraña Deidad la negra Noche ha erigido su trono solitario; allí llegué una vez; crucé atrevido de Thule ignota los contornos vagos y al Reino entré que extiende sus confines fuera del Tiempo y fuera del Espacio.

Y el viaje de un vago Oriente por entrevistos barcos, y el grano de oraciones que floreció en blasfemia, y los azoramientos del cisne entre los charcos, y el falso azul nocturno de inquerida bohemia.

Todo esto viene en medio del silencio profundo en que la noche envuelve la terrena ilusión, y siento como un eco del corazón del mundo que penetra y conmueve mi propio corazón.

Na minha infância nasce uma infância ardente como o álcool. Eu me assentava nos caminhos da noite. Escutava o discurso das estrelas e o da árvore. Agora a indiferença neva a noite na minha alma (Vincent Huidobro, citado por Bachelard)

Somehow I fell asleep in the graveyard.

I looked down the bar at the bartenderHe said, "Now what do you want, Johnny?""One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer"

Into my heart's night Along a narrow way I groped; and lo! the light, An infinite land of day.

This world's existence is one night long. There's a great lively gathering that night, but some people sleep through it.