Quotes About Night

All during the trip home David seemed preoccupied. When he finally sought out Johnnie he found him sitting by himself on the top deck, shivering a little in the night air. He sat down beside him. After a moment Johnnie moved and put his head on David's shoulder. David put his arms around him. But now where there had been peace there was only panic and where there had been safety, danger, like a flower, opened.

We crossed crowded Sixth Avenue, all kinds of people out hunting for Saturday night.

At night I strolled into the Park and took the first whore I met, whom I without many words copulated with free from danger, being safely sheathed. She was ugly and lean and her breath smelt of spirits. I never asked her name. When it was done, she slunk off. I had a low opinion of this practice and resolved to do it no more.

Beyond the castle walls, the city lay in almost total darkness. Above, the moon was pallid and misted. It was a brooding, darkling night. And, it seemed to him, doom walked the heavens.

1:52 a.m. His favorite nightcap—coffee and Benzedrine.

Cab drivers are night-riding denizens of the first order. They view wretched foibles from a gutter perspective.

I walked to the heart of the neon smear.

My eyes are true and as delicate as a hummingbird's in the day; but they are nothing worth boasting of by starlight.

for though the quiet of deep solitude reigned in that vast and nearly boundless forest, nature was speaking with her thousand tongues in the eloquent language of night in a wilderness. The air sighed through ten thousand trees, the water ripped, and at places even roared along the shores; and now and then was heard the creaking of a branch or a trunk, as it rubbed against some object similar to itself, under the vibrations of a nicely balanced body.

The clock holds me nowhere. Nowhere. Nowhere. There is nothing else but now and the shifting depth of night. I sit at a table alone smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee and listening and surviving. I should not be here or anywhere. I should not be breathing or taking space.

The vigor of glory, a glittering in the veins,      As things emerged and moved and were dissolved,      Either in distance, change or nothingness,      The visible transformations of summer night,      An argentine abstraction approaching form      And suddenly denying itself away.

I feel like I've had bad nights or destructive nights or nights where I don't remember anything or nights where I was seriously injured or seriously in danger. And I remained nihilistic and unconcerned because it felt like there was no alternative.

If people want to say nasty things that's a good thing in a way because it means people will underestimate me come fight night.

A regular old drag queen is usually your science teacher who's actually wearing women's panties underneath his slacks. A drag-queen superstar is someone who actually works in clubs and makes a living doing it more than one night a year, or even one night in six months.

The jazz rhythm won't be understood by the bulk of my audience. That's the problem. We can get away with maybe one tune a night. It depends on where we place it. A song like 'Beyond the Sea,' the fans love that. It's fresh.

Always let your heart shine bright, because this inner light will guide you home, even in the darkest night.

What would be the significance of the candlelight, if there were no darkness? What would be the power of the stars over our minds, if there were no night?

Light travels halfway around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on.

Light travels half away around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on.

Only the moon's smile can cure the unseen scars of darkness

Lightning hides the colour of night

They will smile, as they always do when they plan a major attack late in the night.

Predator and prey move in silent gestures, on the seductive dance of death, in the shadows cast by the vultures of the night. ?

The night is Ours. Rejoicing in the ethereal realms where We are kings. Blessed souls of forgotten immortality. They fear Us in every grasp.