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Quotes About Night

authorities within, the shadows of the night took such shapes to him as arose out of the message, and took such shapes to the mare as arose out of her private topics of uneasiness. They seemed to be numerous, for she shied at every shadow on the road. What time, the mail-coach lumbered, jolted, rattled,
~ Charles Dickens
Through the same cold sunlight, colder as the day declines, and through the same sharp wind, sharper as the separate shadows of bare trees gloom together in the woods, and as the Ghost's Walk, touched at the western corner by a pile of fire in the sky, resigns itself to coming night, they drive into the park.
~ Charles Dickens
Rarely did that hour of the evening come, rarely did I wake at night, rarely did I look up at the moon, or stars, or watch the falling rain, or hear the wind, but I thought of his solitary figure toiling on, poor pilgrim, and recalled the words: "I'm a-going to seek her, fur and wide. If any hurt should come to me, remember that the last words I left for her was, 'My unchanged love is with my darling child, and I forgive her!
~ Charles Dickens
E, assim como as neblinas da manhã haviam se dissipado, quando, há muito tempo, eu deixara a ferraria, as neblinas da noite dissipavam-se agora, e em toda a vasta expansão iluminada que me deixavam avistar, não vi a sombra de uma nova despedida de Estella.
~ Charles Dickens
It would come dearer...for when a person comes to grind off poetry night after night, it is but right that he should expect to be paid for its weakening effect upon his mind.
~ Charles Dickens
The night was dark by this time as it would be until morning; what light we had, seemed to come more from the river than the sky, as the oars in their dipping struck at a few reflected stars.
~ Charles Dickens
The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far, we are pursued by nothing else.
~ Charles Dickens
I went forth last night on compulsion I learnt a lesson which is working now .
~ Charles Dickens
The morning came, and they would start at noon. Noon came, and they would start at night. But nothing is eternal in this world; not even the procrastination of an American skipper; and at night all was ready.
~ Charles Dickens
Occasionally, the smoke came rolling down the chimney as though it could not bear to go out into such a night;
~ Charles Dickens
Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.
~ Charles H. Spurgeon
a mint sky with chocolate chip stars
~ Terri Guillemets
Your kiss at night is the sweetest for sure It allows me to dream of a thousand more.
~ Colin Benzie
...a rumble so fierce it realigns me to the core ...flashes so bright that I become the night...
~ Terri Guillemets
Somebody put too many olives in my martini last night.
~ W. C. Fields, 1941
The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing on chamber windows, and twinkling through blind and curtain before sleepers' eyes, shed light even into dreams, and chased away the shadows of the night.
~ Charles Dickens
A bed without a quilt is like a sky without stars.
~ Author Unknown
Midnight: The Pole of the hours; a pincushion on which sparkle all the seconds of a day.
~ Elbert Hubbard
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these preachers of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Night is filled with our loudest fears and a silent courage.
~ Terri Guillemets
Tomorrow will come They'll go back to their chore... But tonight they've forgotten their feet are so sore. And that's what the wonderful night time is for.
~ Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book, 1962
Night lies beside me Chaste and cold as a sharp sword. It and I alone.
~ Amy Lowell
With a single candle, night burns into infinity.
~ Terri Guillemets
And night doth nightly make grief's strength seem stronger.
~ William Shakespeare