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Quotes About Night

We dream every night, all the time.
~ Stephen LaBerge
Time, the foe of man's dominion, Wheels around in ceaseless flight, Scattering from his hoary pinion Shades of everlasting night.
~ Thomas Love Peacock
The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help.
~ Walter Dean Myers
The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.
~ Willa Cather
Time is a very bankrupt and owes more than he's worth to season. Nay, he's a thief too: have you not heard men say, That Time comes stealing on by night and day?
~ William Shakespeare
The iron tongue of Midnight hath told twelve lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. I fear we shall outstep the coming morn as much as we this night over-watch'd.
~ William Shakespeare
Tonight I think again of many days that are sacrificed for one night of love. Of the waste and the fruit of the waste, of plenty and of fire. And how painlessly-time.
~ Yehuda Amichai
I don't have time for any special skin routines. Many a night I go to bed with the gloppy mascara and all.
~ Keri Russell
I'm always down for a Spice Girls reunion. I love the Scary hair and platforms. Any time of day or night I'll be there.
~ Melanie Brown
The night schedule is a crazy pit I fall into most of the time, but I do like it because the buzz of normal professionalism has gone away. Even though you're working, you feel like you're playing.
~ Nate Lowman
Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.
~ Mark Twain
I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die;
~ Mark Twain
He had been drunk over in town, and laid in the gutter all night, and he was a sight to look at. A body would a thought he was Adam, he was just all mud.
~ Mark Twain
I realize from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.
~ Mark Twain
He got home pretty late that night, and when he climbed cautiously in at the window, he uncovered an ambuscade, in the person of his aunt; and when she saw the state his clothes were in her resolution to turn his Saturday holiday into captivity at hard labor became adamantine in its firmness. CHAPTER
~ Mark Twain
If you think it ain't dismal and lonesome out in a fog that way, by yourself, in the night, you try it once – you'll see.
~ Mark Twain
We had a succession of black nights, going up the river, and it was observable that whenever we landed, and suddenly inundated the trees with the intense sunburst of the electric light, a certain curious effect was always produced: hundreds of birds flocked instantly out from the masses of shining green foliage, and went careering hither and thither through the white rays, and often a song-bird tuned up and fell to singing.
~ Mark Twain
The moon got loose last night, and slid down and fell out of the scheme–a very great loss; it breaks my heart to think of it. There isn't another thing among the ornaments and decorations that is comparable to it for beauty and finish. It should have been fastened better. If we can only get it back again-
~ Mark Twain
At first the night travel promised to be fatiguing, but that was on account of pyjamas. This foolish night-dress consists of jacket and drawers. Sometimes they are made of silk, sometimes of a raspy, scratchy, slazy woolen material with a sandpaper surface. The drawers are loose elephant-legged and elephant-waisted things, and instead of buttoning around the body there
~ Mark Twain
Sage went supperless to bed, and tossed and writhed all night upon a shuck mattress that was full of attentive and interested corncobs.
~ Mark Twain
The sky looks ever so deep when you lay down on your back in the moonshine; I never knowed it before.
~ Mark Twain
Lude whispered when he told me things, things I couldn't give a damn about back then but now, now, well my nights would be a great deal shorter if I didn't have to remember them.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Typically when Lude calls me late at night it's because there's some party he wants to hit. He's the kind of guy who thinks sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila. Maybe he's right.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Make no mistake, the woman had a heart. She had a bigger one that people would think. There was a lot in it, stored up, high in miles of hidden shelving. Remember that she was the woman with the instrument strapped to her body in the long, moon-slit night.
~ Markus Zusak