logo

Quotes About Night

Quem olha para o céu à noite está olhando para o infinito; a distância é incompreensível, e portanto sem significado.
~ Douglas Adams
The last thing he wanted after a hellish night like this one was some blasted day coming along and barging about the place.
~ Douglas Adams
them, behind the trees, the strange Italian restaurant that had brought these, their real bodies, to this, the real, present world of Krikkit. The strong grass under their feet was real, the rich soil real, too. The heady fragrances from the tree, too, were real. The night was real night. Krikkit. Possibly the most dangerous place in the Galaxy for anyone who isn't Krikkiter to stand.
~ Douglas Adams
Geceleyin gökyüzüne bakmak sonsuzluÄŸa bakmakt?r...
~ Douglas Adams
Rüyas?nda, gecenin geç bir saatinde DoÄŸu Yakas?ndaki nehrin k?y?s?nda yürüyordu ve nehir öyle acayip kirlenmiÅŸti ki, art?k suyun içinde bir sürü yeni canl? türü kendiliÄŸinden ortaya ç?k?yor, kendileri için devlet yard?m? ve oy hakk? talep ediyorlard?.
~ Douglas Adams
Now the world has gone to bed,' Marvin droned, 'Darkness won't engulf my head, 'I can see by infra-red, 'How I hate the night.' He
~ Douglas Adams
Now the world has gone to bed, Darkness won't engulf my head, I can see by infrared, How I hate the night.
~ Douglas Adams
He dreamed at one point in his slumbers of New York. In his dream he was walking late at night along the East Side, beside the river which had become so extravagantly polluted that new lifeforms were now emerging from it spontaneously, demanding welfare and voting rights.
~ Douglas Adams
Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity - distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless.
~ Douglas Adams
And what better place to sow vengeance—to, quite literally, turn Gotham into a City of Endless Night?
~ Douglas Preston
Ei s'immerge ne la notte, Ei s'aderge in vèr' le stelle. He plunges into the night, He reaches for the stars.
~ Douglas Preston
Pendergast moved with a feline grace, using the waxing moon as his only source of light
~ Douglas Preston
But on the final evening of Amanda's interrogation, she was interrogated all night. Not by just one or two detectives, but by adozen—twelve—detectives. Again, the police not only do not dispute this; they have entered this evidence into court.
~ Douglas Preston
The purpose of interrogating at night has more to do with torture than law enforcement.
~ Douglas Preston
The people's awe and innate fear will hold injustice back by day, by night, so long as the people leave the laws intact, just as they are: muddy the cleanest spring, and all you'll have to drink is muddy water.
~ Aeschylus
Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.
~ Aeschylus
Night, o my mother, from whose womb I took my being.
~ Aeschylus
Thus upon mine restful couch I lie, Bathed with the dews of night, unvisited By dreams--ah me!--for in the place of sleep Stands Fear as my familiar, and repels The soft repose that would mine eyelids seal.
~ Aeschylus
O bountiful Night, housekeeper of heaven's embroidery.
~ Aeschylus
Only cats and witches walk in the dark.
~ Agatha Christie
They went up the stairs. The next move was a little like a scene in a farce. Each one of the four stood with a hand on his or her bedroom door handle. Then, as though at a signal, each one stepped into the room and pulled the door shut. There were sounds of bolts and locks, of the moving of furniture. Four frightened people were barricaded in until morning.
~ Agatha Christie
Don't hiss at me, Pagett," I said, drawing back a little, "and do control your breathing. Your idea is absurd. Why should they want to have a secret meeting in the middle of the night? If they'd anything to say to each other, they could hobnob over beef tea in a perfectly casual and natural manner.
~ Agatha Christie
But that was beauty, of course—some vague, fancied picture of a woman flying through the night with white draperies streaming out behind her… Something like the figurehead of a ship—only not so solid… not nearly so solid…
~ Agatha Christie
I'm out for a walk. I like walking at night. Nobody stops you and says silly things, and I like the stars, and things smell better, and everyday things look all mysterious.' 'All of that I grant you freely,' I said. 'But only cats and witches walk in the dark. ...
~ Agatha Christie