Quotes About Night

The veil concealing truth gets windswept in the wee hours, revealing all to the silence of the night.

Night is the mother of Councels.

A wolf howls his soul into the misty night. The moon answers with glowing silence.

Sometimes on lonely nights the man in the moon is my best friend.

Night — the quiet of solitude — the silence of loneliness

Optimism... To whistle while passing a cemetery in the night; to sing a hymn while having a tooth pulled; to smile while being robbed.

...we went to Wood's at the Pell Mell (our old house for clubbing), and there we spent till ten at night.

Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.

The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high.

The condition of society is one of homogeneity and hyperindustrialism, so the individual perceptions of body and mind are not valued. Poetry is not the expression of the party line. It's that time at night, laying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Poetry is like an unexpected noise in the night: the creak of a door, the footstep on the porch, the soft scuffle of a moth against the screen, which rouses every sense to an instant alert. So comes poetry to the drowsy mind, which startles a moment, wonders, and returns to sleep.

Poetry staggers amongst stars, drunk on the night.

Helpless, cruel hours of waiting in the night; lying on the left side the heart is smothered; turning on the right side, still no comfort; finally lying on the back; always a prey to the energy of the child, trying with one's hands pressed on the swelling body to give a message to the child. Cruel hours of tender waiting in the night. What seems countless nights passing like this. With what a price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

...if thou hast that in thee indeed, which I have greater reason to believe now than ever, I mean purpose, courage and valour, this night show it...

'T is sweet to listen as the night-winds creep From leaf to leaf; 't is sweet to view on high The rainbow, bas'd on ocean, span the sky...

Reading in bed jumpstarts dreams.

D'ya ever go for a midnight skip Or an after-dark skinny dip? Exercise your inner child at night, It's twice as fun than in daylight.

What hath night to do with sleep?

Sleeplessness comes when our thoughts outweigh the night.

The "sporting goods" shipments—kegs of high explosives, drums of gunpowder, cannon powder, smokeless powder, belts of machine-gun ammunition, cartridges, bullets, and shells—continued. In one month, August 1934, the Morro Castle transported over one hundred crates of assorted weapons to Havana. This arsenal was always unloaded at night by soldiers of the Cuban Army; often a convoy of trucks was needed to carry away the crates.

Ma stood by the window as the stars began to poke holes in the deep, blue velvet sky.

City of Bright Moonlight.

upon the world. She understood that perhaps even up to the very day before, they had most of them been merry, careless boys; but now they were men, made so in a night by the horrible sin that had brought about this thing called War.

To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.