Quotes About Night

Ho guardato in alto, oltre le insegne illuminate e, obliqua su un grattacielo, c'era la luna. Le ho detto: Cosa ci fa una ragazza come te in un posto come questo?

Oui, je suis Mademoiselle Lycanthrope. Volete camminare con me signore, per le vie della Parigi notturna? E' una notte di luna quasi piena e noi quasi ci ameremo. Nessun urlo o ululato o macchia di sangue per strada. Solo una vaga malinconia. La luna, la luna, è una severa maestra. Anche stasera non uccidiamo. Balliamo. Domani forse, qualcuno ci ucciderà.

She said the night was March and black and that the hill where he kissed her and enveloped her in his arms was a sea of grass and she rooted to the ground like a sapling, like it was natural and yet all created for her moment of romance.

On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.

He begins every night really excited. He always says he feels free, and tonight is his destiny. But after awhile, he runs out of things to keep himself numb. ... the words leave him, and we can see how sad he really is

The moon had been lighted and was hung in a treetop.

Camp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night.

Little Birds of the Night LITTLE birds of the night Aye, they have much to tell Perching there in rows Blinking at me with their serious eyes Recounting of flowers they have seen and loved Of meadows and groves of the distance And pale sands at the foot of the sea And breezes that fly in the leaves. They are vast in experience These little birds that come in the night

The fire cackled musically. From it swelled light smoke. Overhead the foliage moved softly. The leaves, with their faces turned toward the blaze, were colored shifting hues of silver, often edged with red. Far off to the right, through a window in the forest could be seen a handful of stars lying, like glittering pebbles, on the black level of the night.

I am someone who has spent his adult life on the periphery of literature in the way that a small animal will remain just beyond the glow of the campfire, observing the strange doings of the human creatures settling in for the night.

Each of them used the same words, like people who've been trained in sales, and as they moved to their Miatas and Audis I noted the bare shoulders of their women were the barest shoulders I'd ever seen, as if they needed only the night as a shawl.

There was no room on this new road for Crazy Horse, the greatest warrior of them all. Perhaps Touch-the-Clouds had this in mind as he looked down on those courageous, confused people. It s well, he said quietly, reassuringly. He has looked for death and it has come. The Oglalas filed away, silently, into the night.

The rescue of Aethra and the sparing of Antenor - can be registered as the only lights of clemency an honour that shone during that night of unnameable atrocities

Together Perseus and Andromeda look over their unruly shower of meteor children, the PERSEIDS, whom we can still watch showing off in the night sky once a year.

I had a disturbing dream last night. Most disturbing. Would you like to hear it?" "Absolutely," lies Zeus, who has, in common with us all, a horror of hearing the details of anyone else's dreams.

There was a young lady of Wight Who travelled much faster than light She departed one day In a relative way And arrived on the previous night.

Aristarchus suspected that this was the case and believed that the stars we see in the night sky are actually nothing more than distant suns.

Nobody likes a clown at midnight

Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man.

Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe.

I am, he thought dimly, watching a vampire take a piss.

There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.

The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch.

Between midnight and four, everyone should have permission to speak freely.