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Quotes About Night

The moon was just starting to rise above the Tetons, shining
~ RaeAnne Thayne
We can continue to let the past control us. One horrible night we can't change. Or we can take the lessons we learned from it—lessons about courage and resilience and second chances—and embrace a future together.
~ RaeAnne Thayne
El arte de la noche ha invadido el arte de la vida.
~ Rafael Pérez Gay
Nicholson's force, largely European but with a contingent also of Sikh and Muslim Punjabis, moved out of Amritsar that night.
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
At night these people put out food so the ghosts will have something to eat. They put out Vietnamese food for the ghosts of the dead Vietnamese soldiers. But many American GIs died, too, so they put out American food for the ghosts of the dead American soldiers.
~ Ralph Fletcher
Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age,—lasting as space and time,—embosomed in time and space.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,-all duties even.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
La luna es un banco de metáforas arruinado.
~ Ramón Gómez de la Serna
This leprous daybreak, dawn night's fangs have mangled – This is not that long-looked for break of day, Not that clear dawn in quest of which those comrades Set out, believing that in heaven's wide void Somewhere must be the stars' last halting-place, Somewhere the verge of night's slow-washing tide, Somewhere the anchorage for the ship of heartache.10
~ Ramachandra Guha
Here where North, the night, the berg of death Crowd me out of the ignorant darkness, I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness—that the darkness flung me— Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing, The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness And we call it wisdom. It is pain.
~ Randall Jarrell
Behind him, the lights of Erie appeared to be underwater now, a twinkling city sinking into an indigo sea.
~ Randall Silvis
We are all made up," he answered aloud. "We are only real at night.
~ Randall Silvis
Every night at 2:37 a.m., I walk outside my apartment complex, naked, and I stand in the middle of the road and scream. I scream loud enough to wake up my neighbors, long enough that my voice goes hoarse. One time, I almost got hit by
~ Randy Chandler
Electronic Nocturne The TV goes dead, killing all the newscasters. Go, loud satraps of the night, leave us alone with darkness and ourselves.
~ Ranjit Hoskote
My creativity, no matter how poor, is for me a far better guide than all the knowledge with which my head has been crammed. In the night of Power, its glimmer keeps the enemy forces at bay.
~ Raoul Vaneigem
guards, carrying on, warming themselves around the
~ Ravi Howard
I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry. Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.
~ Ray Bradbury
There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks.
~ Raymond Chandler
I stepped out into the night air that nobody had yet found out how to option. But a lot of people were probably trying. They'd get around to it.
~ Raymond Chandler
There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen.
~ Raymond Chandler
Most love stories are nocturnal. That's what makes them so fascinating.
~ Raymond Federman
Once, Dad had too much beer and had to be carried home.
~ Karan Kapoor
Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole different cast of characters comes out.
~ Dan Gilroy