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Quotes About Night

I like dresses for night; I like after-party more than party. I like the mystery; I like the dream, like fantasy dresses. I think, also, that you make women dream.
~ Alber Elbaz
In the jungle, during one night in each month, the moths did not come to the lanterns; through the black reaches of the outer night, so it was said, they flew toward the full moon.
~ Peter Matthiessen
The night itself wanted to touch her
~ Peter Redgrove
Es gibt mir das Gefühl, nicht allein zu sein, wenn ich nachts aufwache." "Du bist nicht allein." "Nein", sagte Agnes, "jetzt nicht.
~ Peter Stamm
Sie war unruhig, und doch schienen wir - ohne mehr voneinander zu wissen als unsere Namen - über Nacht vertrauter miteinander geworden zu sein.
~ Peter Stamm
Uyuyamad?m, a?r?lar?m artt?, fakat ruhi azab?ma nispetle çok asil, sade ve saf olan et ?st?rab?m? o gece sevdim.
~ Peyami Safa
When he isn't drumming with The Who, Moonie seems to like playing barman in La Chasse. I buy a round from him one night, and he gives me back more money than I'd handed over. Another reason to love him.
~ Phil Collins
Someone had told me, years ago, that Key West's latitude was the northernmost from which the Southern Cross was visible. I had glimpsed it just once, in 1980, while on a night swordfishing trip in the Gulf Stream. It hung a hand's width above the horizon in the southwest—four stars like the points of a crystal kite. On
~ Philip Caputo
It takes years to learn how to steal, to use the cover of night. It's not easy. You have to practice it. And you need someone who knows what they're doing to teach you. You've got to be aware of everything at once. And you always have to be careful about making noise. You've got to learn to move without noise.
~ Philip Carlo
Richard would now often stay out in the desert after it had gotten dark. Mike had taught him how to read the stars, and he never got lost.
~ Philip Carlo
During the night, Alexander gets up to urinate, and wanders through the densely packed house. He sees his father's ghost once again and says, "Papa, why can't you go to God and tell him to kill the bishop? That is his department.
~ Philip Greven
I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.
~ Philip Guston
I love night more than day--she is so lovely; But I love night the most because she brings My love to me in dreams which scarcely lie
~ Philip James Bailey
The stars, Which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields Of heaven.
~ Philip James Bailey
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
~ Philip James Bailey
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
~ Philip K. Dick
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
~ Philip K. Dick
the river sliding along its banks, darker now than the sky descending a last time to scatter its diamonds into these black waters that contain the day that passed, the night to come. — Excerpt from the poem "The Mercy
~ Philip Levine
Wake, awake, for night is flying:The watchmen on the heights are crying.
~ Philip Nicolai
Late one night, as he walked back alone from a Kasuals gig, a truck screeched to a halt beside him and a group of drunken white youths jumped out, screaming racial abuse. Jimmy took off across a cornfield, easily outdistanced his would-be attackers and then, rather like Cary Grant in Hitchcock's North by Northwest, lay doggo on top of Betty-Jean, until they gave up and drove away.
~ Philip Norman
Freya told me Caul has dreams about this place every night," said Tom. "He dreams about Uncle's voice, whispering to him the way it used to when he was a child. Why would Uncle keep talking to them all, over the speakers, even while they were asleep?
~ Philip Reeve
She wanted to stop, but she was riding a wave of memory and it was carrying her backward to that night, that room, and the blood that had spattered her mother's star charts like the map of a new constellation.
~ Philip Reeve
Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.
~ Philip Reeve
With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies!How silently, and with how wan a face!
~ Philip Sidney