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Quotes About Night

Poem for My Love How do we come to be here next to each other in the night Where are the stars that show us to our love inevitable Outside the leaves flame usual in darkness and the rain falls cool and blessed on the holy flesh the black men waiting on the corner for a womanly mirage I am amazed by peace It is this possibility of you asleep and breathing in the quiet air
~ June Jordan
And as the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so was my beloved among the sons. Et cetera. What would I give, to have that night back, out of all my nights? No treasure fleet could hold it, what I'd give; no caravan of mules could carry it away.
~ Kage Baker
Wahrscheinlich werde ich jede Nacht von dir träumen, sagte er. Und wenn ich aufwache, weiß ich, dass der beste Teil des Tages schon vorbei ist. Das hast du irgendwo gelesen. Hab ich nicht.
~ Kai Meyer
If she did have to describe the kind of person who hunted vampires though, she was certain of one thing. It wouldn't be the kind of person who wore pink fluffy slippers at night and fell asleep in front of the television
~ Kailin Gow
He determinado para la luna fases, hasta que se pone como la palma seca. No le está bien al sol alcanzar a la luna, ni a la noche adelantar al día: cada uno navega en su propia órbita»
~ Karen Armstrong
People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of heart, that are like honey on the tongue.
~ Karen Blixen
The thing which in the waking world comes nearest to a dream is night in a big town, where nobody knows one, or the African night. There too is infinite freedom: it is there that things are going on, destinies are made round you, there is activity to all sides, and it is none of your concern.
~ Karen Blixen
And I had by now become used to the idea of witchcraft, it seemed a reasonable thing, so many things are about, at night, in Africa.
~ Karen Blixen
Oh no,' said the moon, 'time means very little to me.
~ Karen Blixen
Poi, prima di riprender sonno, mi chiedevo se, nei boschi, Lulu aveva mai sognato la sua campana.
~ Karen Blixen
Sunpraise. None of it made any sense. He thought again of Brother Rhiad raving last night in the coach about what a dangerous
~ Karen Hancock
Then you must also spend the night. We are miles from an inn, and I can promise you that the sheets are fresh and clean. And the beds are lumpier than those at any posting house.
~ Karen Hawkins
The rest of the night was an endless dream sequence directed by David Lynch
~ Karen Joy Fowler
I have a secret. A big, fat, hairy secret. And I'm not talking minor-league stuff, like I once let Joseph Applebaum feel me up behind the seventh-grade stairwell or I got a Brazilian wax after work last Friday or I'm hiding a neon blue vibrator called the Electric Slide in my night table. Which I'm not, by the way. In case you were wondering.
~ Karen MacInerney
A possum stared at me through the door all night." "That's Bill." Charlie turned on the giant television. "He's my lover.
~ Karin Slaughter
Will thought of her time away from work the way he used to think of his schoolteachers crawling into their caves under the school building at night, lulling themselves to sleep with dreams of torturing their students the next day.
~ Karin Slaughter
I'm useless in water. I wake up at night drowning in my own saliva.
~ Karl Pilkington
Twas the night before Christmas—well, the late afternoon, in fact, but who could tell at the North Pole in the middle of winter—and Matthias the werewolf was knee-deep in reindeer guts. Really, it was the deer's own fault for having that glowing red nose that had made it ever so easy to pick him out in the gloom. There it had been, like a neon sign saying FAST FOOD and Matt being like Yellow Dog Dingo—always hungry—had taken the opportunity for a quick snack.
~ Kat Richardson
What if this present were the world's last night' she said. 'The word present makes all the difference, don't you think? It makes it seem as if one's somehow in the thick of it, which we are, rather than simply contemplating a theoretical concept.
~ Kate Atkinson
For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.
~ Hesiod
If you get up at three in the morning to go to the bathroom, man, why you have to turn on that little light? Put the torch there on the nightstand.
~ Hugo Chavez
Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.
~ James M. Barrie
This is the sort of situation I enjoy: a game in the San Siro, a huge crowd and a night for big men. Remember, only victory is beautiful.
~ Marcel Desailly
Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in.
~ Rita Rudner