Quotes About Night

Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn?

La notte e vicina per me. Those were the words that an elderly Italian woman, an old crone who swept the stairs, had uttered to Fran when she was working as an au pair girl in Florence, a hundred years ago.

You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you.

Home was five blocks away. She would not wait for the sobbing Peter to harness the buggy, would not wait for Dr. Meade to drive her home. She could not endure the tears of the one, the silent condemnation of the other. She went swiftly down the dark front steps without her coat or bonnet and into the misty night. She rounded the corner and started up the long hill toward Peachtree Street, walking in a still wet world, and even her footsteps were as noiseless as a dream.

Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.

Twas the night before Thanksgiving. All the food's in the oven. And I'm in the bedroom performin' self lovin'.

Twas the night before Thanksgiving.

I went for a walk last night and she asked me how long I was going to be gone. I said, 'The whole time.

This one time I stayed up way past my bedtime... man that was scary.

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Every night is a time for drink.

The conjunction of the day and the night is the most auspicious time for calling on God. The mind remains pure at this time.

I come alive in the night time

Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.

The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.

Time [is] flowing in the middle of the night.

I thank the Lord for the night time.

Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.

The brightest star on a cloudless night Some kind of miracle, almost empty sky... Just as the bite of the blade wakes the absent mind There's time to dream and there's time to open your eyes

And for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.

Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.

Don't fear the night time, Because the monsters know that you're divine. And don't fear the sunshine, Because everything is better in the summer time...

I've got nothing against daylight. I don't live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.

I don't sleep much. It takes me a long time to fall asleep. I'm a bit of an insomniac but, when I fall asleep, I don't ever want to wake up.