Quotes About Night

I thought he waited for you at the side door every night, then walked you back at dawn because you were holding a secret canasta tournament. You mean you're having sex? I'm shocked.

a nurse, since you're staying awake

When the moon wanes, the darkness eats it. Bite by bite.

With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.

Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.

It would be that time--late at night-- when your ears reach out for any sound. When you can see more with your eyes closed than open.

Not that I'm crazy or anything, I just want some proof that death isn't the end. Even if crazed zombies grabbed me in some dark hall one night, even if they tore me apart, at least that wouldn't be the absolute end. There would be some comfort in that.

When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep and you're never really awake.

Adam said the other blessing you have to give up in the outside world is darkness. You can close your eyes, and sit in a cupboard, but that's not the same thing. The darkness at night in the church district colony is complete. The stars are thick above us in this kind of darkness. You can see how the moon is rough with mountain ranges and etched with rivers and smoothed with oceans. On a night without the moon or stars you can't see a thing, but you can imagine anything.

Some people are night people. Some people are day people. I could only work a day job.

ALL NIGHT LONG, your thoughts are on the air. Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is the insomnia. Try to relax a little more with every breath out, but your heart's still racing and your thoughts tornado in your head. Nothing works. Not guided meditation.

a flutter of wings rippling the fabric of the night. "Balastair!" chirps a voice. At first he thinks it's Cicero, but it's not, not at all—Cicero is still in the air, still chirping and screeching in alarm. "Erasmus," Balastair says with a small smile. "I've missed you.

Nothing except the desire between them, the ground below them, the night above.

Stay home and the crooks win. They get the night, by default and concession, the night which should rightly belong to all of us.

Never let the sun go down on an argument," she said. "Because one of us might die in the night," I said, as I'd replied since I was small. But this time, she laughed, a dry, sad laugh. "One of us just might, Mouse.

Must beauty blossom, rooted in decay, And night devour its flaming hues alway?

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

For now, they had simpler concerns. Keeping the children from the roofs at night, the bereaved from crying out too loud, the young in summer from falling in love with the human.

when the sun goes out and there's only night, we'll live on the earth. It'll be ours.

To be able to fly ? To be smoke , or a wolf ;to know the night , and live in it forever ? That's not so bad . You call us monsters . But when you dream it's of flying , and changing , and living without death .

except that she was sleeping not in preparation for a new day but for endless night.

Certaines étoiles mettent plus de temps que d'autre à apparaître. Le paradoxe est le suivant : plus il fait nuit, plus ces secrets deviennent visibles. Pour finir, ils se déploient dans toute leur splendeur ; et ce sont ces choses même que nous dissimulons, ces choses dont nous avons le plus honte, dont nous nous servons pour nous guider.

i dream of ships at sea, on a stormy night i wish that it was me, but i wake up in fright

I had a heady dream of loving her, as if she were an actress on a stage of my own making; and as the night wore on, my imaginings wandered into make-believe, and died beyond the tent of the mosquito net, where Vincent was snoring, and the African stars were shining in through our lone window, and nothing was quite real.