Quotes About Night

One of the things you see in New York is that offices keep their lights on at night. They're proud of their building. Great. But they must find another way to be proud without draining energy.

Sometimes I'll get ideas in the middle of the night. Sometimes at 3 in the morning I'll get up, and I have a notebook by my bed and have to write it down. I'll dream an idea. Sometimes I see an image online, and I think, 'OK, let's make that a three-layer cake!'

I like to work from home. I do most of my writing in bed, late at night after everyone has gone to sleep. I need to be alone with my thoughts, and late at night is about the only time that can actually happen.

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

Look at the moon! How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. You would fancy she was looking for dead things.

Soñador es aquel que sólo encuentra su camino a la luz de la luna y cuyo castigo es ver el alba antes que el resto del mundo.

They take their punishment so well, so cheerfully: I go out with an adder in my heart, and an asp in my tongue, and every night I sow thorns in the garden of my soul.

A genius in the daytime and a beauty at night!

It was winter, and a night of bitter cold. The snow lay thick upon the ground, and upon the branches of the trees: the frost kept snapping the little twigs on either side of them, as they passed: and when they came to the Mountain-Torrent she was hanging motionless in air, for the Ice-King had kissed her.

They walked softly, as men do instinctively at night. The lamp cast fantastic shadows on the wall and staircase. A rising wind made some of the windows rattle.

Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.

I shall write it in my diary to-night What? That a burnt child loves the fire

But he never fell into the error of arresting his intellectual development by any formal acceptance of creed or system, or of mistaking, for a house in which to live, an inn that is but suitable for the sojourn of the night, or for a few hours of a night in which there are no stars and the moon is in travail.

And when he roared into your driveway at night, you knew he was bringing music, whether you wanted it or not.

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

Darkness makes any woman fair.

His eyes that swam in death's dark night looked round For Athis, and he lay down by his side, Solaced among the shades to share his death.

The rest night knows, and we, and the tower that sees, and the light that showed me a path through the sea.

una duos nox perdet amantes. one night loses two lovers.

Faults are hidden at night: every blemish is forgiven.

That night, at God knows what hour, Bill phoned me up and shouted, 'Ozzy, I think my house is haunted!' 'Sell tickets then,' I told him, and put the phone down.

Something that might have been a very hard and knobbly leg of mutton smote Lord Emsworth violently behind the ear:the sun was turned off at the main: the stars came out, many of them of a singular brightness.

London late at night -- or even in the daytime, for that matter -- is no place for a man in scarlet tights.

he was alone in the endless night that rested over the whole earth, alone in heaven and on earth and among the living and the dead. This he had always been . . . .