Quotes About Night

i'd like to dream my troubles all away on a bed of California stars.

There is a tragedy in unloved years, And in those passionate hours by love deceived, In lips unkissed and hopes too soon bereaved, And youth's high courage which no strength could save, And manhood's web of fate by folly weaved, And grey-haired grief brought down into the grave. Who shall distinguish truly and be wise 'Twixt grief and grief, 'twixt night and night?

I can even hear the sun. It sounds like a jet taking off in the middle of the night.

Memorizing and repeating digits loosens the hold of System 2 on behavior, but of course cognitive load is not the only cause of weakened self-control. A few drinks have the same effect, as does a sleepless night. The self-control of morning people is impaired at night; the reverse is true of night people.

little world": "The world is a den of thieves, and night is falling. Evil breaks its chains and runs through the world like a mad dog. The poison affects us all. No one escapes. Therefore let us be happy while we are happy. Let us be kind, generous, affectionate, and good. It is necessary and not at all shameful to take pleasure in the little world.

Silenzio. O i bei silenzi delle nostre notti sveglie.. Quante placide insonnie ci siamo goduti, tua madre e io, da quando ci conosciamo. Il sonno è una separazione.

L'immagine di Dracula è particolarmente calzante per la trasfusione di sangue. Sono su un letto di ospedale, riempito goccia a goccia del sangue di un altro. Avrei preferito filarmela durante la notte, dopo aver dissanguato tre infermiere, ma il vampirismo ha perso fascino da quando è stato legalizzato.

she said, exhaling a cloud of smoke into the cold night air. "You'll

While Dad was in prison the rule had been to never see the same stud three nights. One night is forgot like a fart, two like a pang, but after three nights lain together there is a hurt, and to soothe the hurt there will be night four, and five, and nights unnumbered. The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

The night that hides things from us.

À Tokyo, où je n'ai jamais mis les pieds, on conserve paraît-il le temps dans de jolies petites boîtes laquées. Si tu veux trois jours, on peut te les vendre. Contre de l'argent ? Non, on n'achète du temps qu'avec du temps. On peut te vendre trois jours gris contre deux jours ensoleillés et une nuit triste. Ou simplement une heure contre un baiser frais. Je voudrais acheter du temps japonais avec des mimosas ruisselants de pluie.

It is as if all four of them are waiting something out, as if none of them wants the night to end. Morning has sprouted, pale and winking, by the time they say goodbye.

The water is surprisingly warm. When she dives in, she feels herself enveloped. Reemerging, she leans back, lifts her feet, and floats on her back. Above her the sky is dark black, an endless stretch dotted with tiny stars. The sound of night, the thick, rich quiet - and the hooting, every few minutes, of an owl.

The sky was overladen with stars. If you looked closely there were stars in the grass as well--dew turned to ice on the tips of grass blades.

At home in bed that first night I had patchy, mundane dreams about normal things. It would be nobler and less uncomfortable to write that I tossed sleeplessly.

What I want to write is that I lay there until morning, with tear-stained eyes, a tear-stained pillow, a tear-stained life. What can one do with levels of gloom and guilt, fear and disbelief, of bewilderment above one's capacity to register? I slept soundly.

Che si spezzi il cuore affidato ad un corpo che vuole e non vuole morire; anzi disvuole volendo la morte tacita e notturna, in una stanza nottivaga, libera da storie magica stanza inquieta nella mano palpitante e sincera la mano che calza la mattina, la copre le coperte sventagliate al sole che sta lì dinanzi al vento di albe e mattine

Mjesec, sad velik na nebu, nije ih ni primijetio. Možda nije ni mogao. Možda njegovo lice i nije na strani koju smo oduvijek tako zvali. Kad promislite bolje, ne biste li i vi svoj pogled radije okrenuli zvijezdama?

For a long time that's all I could do, howl and scream and cry like the wild animal of the night that I'd become.

Nick: "Don't you think maybe a drink would help you to sleep?" Nora: "No, thanks." Nick: "Maybe it would if I took one.

if you can rid your life of realities by night and keep your days as one long dream always, then you will indeed be blessed of the Gods. Gath

Sometimes at night she would be wakened by thunderclaps of passion from her father in the next room. They terrified and disgusted her, although they were not so nauseating as the underlying slithery hypocrisy of her mother's acceptance. She'd always thought her mother was the loving one and her father stolid.

until the night it ate the baby.

I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep.