Quotes About Night

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience, unless they are still up.

My handsome Knight of Night came over to me and kissed me softly on the cheek.

I had waited an eternity for this moment. My childhood fantasy was now coming true— I would be a dark angel of the night.

As I lay alone in my bed, I prayed for eternal darkness and a sun that never rose.

We intend marching by night," Harris answered. "Fine. In what direction?" "We shall take a compass, of course." "Tell me one day what it was reading when you passed the Jebel Haroudji Mountains here." He tapped the map. "They're mostly magnetic rock. Have you ever seen a compass do the twist?

The shadows of the dunes were black-cut by the moon; the stars were huge and blue. Toward midnight the silk canopy was lifted, and fell inert, and was lifted again by the breeze that rose softly from the north, from the sea.

Last night I asked Alessandro if he ever lies in bed and thinks about chocolate—say, about the way dark chocolate feels in your mouth, or how different it is when spiked with orange peel. He said no. Then he said that the only time he thinks about food in bed is when he wakes up in the middle of the night and wants steak. Somewhere in that clash lies a profound truth about the difference between the sexes.

Most of England would consider him fortunate, and Thaddeus had always agreed. But in this moment, on this moonlit night, he felt as if he had only just discovered what it meant to be truly blessed. It was to be loved.

night on the way here, and he has twice the brains of my father.

There was no point in taking issue with Marilla's overweening self-regard. It was as infinite as a starry night.

The sun's down and the moon's pretty - it's time to ramble.

the oncoming night was filled with the mystery of unknown places and of distance, of things that happened long ago and happenings yet to come.

After each night we are emptier: our mysteries and our griefs have leaked away into our dreams. Thus sleep's labor not only diminishes the power of our thought, but even that of our secrets.

Characteristic of sickness to stay awake when everything sleeps, when everything is at rest, even the sick man.

Sculîndu-m? din pat în toiul nopÅ£ii, primul meu gînd a fost s? m? arunc în mare din înaltul falezei. Dar noaptea era perfect?, ireproÅŸabil?; pur ÅŸi simplu m-a f?cut fericit.

Femeia-i Paradisul ca noapte.

There are nights that the most ingenious torturers could not have invented. We emerge from them in pieces, stupid, dazed, with neither memories nor anticipations, and without even knowing who we are. And it is then that the day seems useless, light pernicious, even more oppressive than the darkness.

When I lie awake far into the night, I am visited by my evil

Ed essi ignorano quanto io ti ho amata e quanto io ti ho pianta. Honorata, dopo quella notte fatale che ti abbandonai sola, in mezzo alla tempesta, affidandoti alla misericordia di Dio!...

Let grief distract the sufferer's breast, And night obscure his way; They hasten him to endless rest, And everlasting day.

She was seventy-three, a widow, came in every night looking like the Queen, drank her body weight in gin and left looking like an unmade bed.

When a theater goes dark for the night, a stagehand leaves a lighted lamp on stage. No one knows why any more, but some old timers say it is to keep the ghosts away. Others say it lights the stage for the ghosts to play. Whichever theory one adheres to, most people agree: a great theater is haunted.

Sometimes inspiration hits in the middle of the night and I want to get up and work on it. It's that spark of immediacy. For me, it's a tap which is on all the time.

At night, the prison cells hold the darkness of a cave but for odd shapes here and there.