Quotes About Night

His low voice breaks the stillness. "You didn't say what you were doing out this late." "I couldn't sleep either," I reply. Not a lie. His mouth curves. "So we're perfect for each other. A pair of insomniacs." Perfect for each other. I grin a mad, stupid smile.

Sleep that masters all.

Is the sunrise superior just because it goes before the sunset with a day and sunset goes before the sunrise with a night? Could there be day without night and sunrise without sunset, life without death?

Our view agrees with K.F. Smith, who in his article Hekate's Suppers[162] suggested that it may have been on the first night that the moon was visible again, signifying a possible connection with Hekate as a lunar goddess, rising, like the moon, from the underworld on the night of the new moon.

Dreams should be forgotten when we wake. Or one day we will find ourselves unable to sleep.

We were drunk last night, We were drunk the night before, We're going to get drunk tonight If we never get drunk any more. The more we drink The merrier we shall be For we are the boys of the Royal Artillery.

In their dreams at night, people wander around as long as they sleep; just so, they are under the power of the snake Maya, as long as their hearts are filled with ego and duality.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

At night a hooded monk passed by where there were no lamps. I could not see his face. I only heard these words he kept repeating: "Teach me, dear Lord, all that you know." I knew instantly a great treasure had entered my soul.

I'm going to need chocolate. Lots and lots of chocolate. Since tomorrow is my free night, I figure I will swing by Teresa's and visit, and as I recall, she always loved chocolate too. So tonight? I'm going to do a final test of my triple-chocolate chewies, dark chocolate cookies with white and milk chocolate chips, one of the recipes I'm thinking of including in the proposal, and I just want to make them one more time to be sure they are perfect.

An 1888 police justice came right out and declared that for women only, simply being out at night was probable cause. The way he saw it, "no decent, respectable woman would be found in the street without an escort after 10 P.M.," and therefore, he told a Women's Prison Association investigator, "any woman alone in the street after that hour ought to be arrested." Accordingly, at night police would sometimes sweep up women by the dozens.

Things disturb us in the night. Sometimes they are our consciences. Sometimes they are our secrets. Sometimes they are our fears, translated from one idiom to another.

Even little bears expect a good fright when they go out for treats on Halloween night.

Off go the Bear Scouts to camp out all night. Will an unwelcome ghost visit their site?

The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass.

He wished they could drive all night, that the earth would rotate away from them at such a rate that they would never reach Willow Creek...

I calculate the breadth of Steven's shoulders, now wider than mine; watch him tear open the Blokus game he likes to play with me after school; count the hours between now and Dad coming home to take over and I am only a little afraid of the night.

the natural animosity between those who slept and those who were stirring in the sleeping city.

Lorsque j'ouvrais les yeux dans l'obscurité et que je te sentais contre mon flanc, je m'étonnais qu'il n'y eût pas d'étoiles au-dessus de moi, tant le ciel semblait présent.

Cuando abría los ojos en la oscuridad y sentía que estabas a mi lado, me asombraba de no ver el firmamento por encima de nosotros, hasta tal punto me sentía como en el cielo. No, nunca me he arrepentido, amor mío, de aquella noche. Aún recuerdo cómo dormías, cómo sentía tu respiración, tu cuerpo, y cómo lloré de felicidad en la penumbra.

de noche se ven unas llamas en las tinieblas, por lo que Magallanes da el nombre de Tierra del Fuego a la que acaban de descubrir.

To-night the swinging stars shall plumb The silence of the sky.

She glanced upwards for a second at the soft blue vault of the midsummer night sky. Not a cloud misted its solemn depths. Tomorrow would be a beautiful day.

It was the loveliest hour of the English year: seven o'clock on Midsummer Night.