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Quotes About Night

I have no taste for work any longer, I can do nothing more except wait for night. 530: Things are bad! Things are very bad: I have it, the filth, the Nausea.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
The four cafés on the Boulevard Victor-Noir, shining in the night, side by side, and which are much more than café--aquariums, ships, stars or great white eyes--have lost their ambiguous charm.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Nothing has changed and yet everything is different. I can't describe it; it's like the Nausea and yet it's just the opposite: at last an adventure happens to me and when I question myself I see that it happens that I am myself and that I am here; I am the one who splits the night, I am as happy as the hero of a novel.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night.
~ Unknown
When you finish work, practically everybody in that place is going to watch a movie at night anyway. They're tired. They have dinner. They go up to their room. They're watching TV.
~ Wes Anderson
You may try your experiment for a week and see how you like it. I think by Saturday night you will find that all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play
~ Louisa May Alcott
Knowing that conscious decisions and personal memory are much too small a place to live, every human being streams at night into the loving nowhere, or during the day, in some absorbing work.
~ Rumi
I wake up very early in the morning. I like to start in the dark, and I never work at night, because my brain is evaporated by 4 P.M.
~ Alice Sebold
I don't typically work that late into the night in a studio, I'm more productive during the day.
~ Amy Ray
My manager has a car payment, so I work every night.
~ Carrot Top
Actors and burglars work better at night.
~ Cedric Hardwicke
The moon's a powerful mistress. She can reach through any wall or covering and work her wicked charms.
~ Darren Shan
A short-order cook, just off work, makes easy tracking for lions and worse
~ Dean Koontz
I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.
~ Diana Gabaldon
My favorite time is late at night. I seem to wake up and want to work after 10pm, in my bubble of night.
~ Unknown
Top-shelf fiction, a Crown Royal ride into the heart of Night and New York. Con Lehane's work is reminiscent of the best of Lawrence Block, which is to say that this is very good stuff, indeed.
~ George Pelecanos
I work for a few at home who are devoted. People who are up now. Either they have some sort of bladder problem or they're extremely drunk. This is my crowd, these are the people I hope to get.
~ Greg Proops
I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I'll black out the windows or something.
~ Grimes
I'm going to work night and day to make sure that Americans get the tax relief that they need and deserve, and that our economy needs and deserves.
~ Jay Carney
As a kid I'd lie awake at night and convince myself that a meteor was about to hit the Earth. It's my fatalistic streak, which I've inherited from my mum. I firmly believe something cataclysmic is going to happen in my lifetime and I have to be prepared to run for my life when the time comes.
~ Ellie Goulding
Competing and streaming 'Fortnite' all night at the most iconic building in Chicago, a city close to my heart, is a dream come true.
~ Ninja
Most of us, myself included, have forgotten what real darkness is like. We live in a world where light is inescapable. It comes from street lamps, headlights, security floodlights, and even the faint glow of our alarm clocks.
~ Jake Halpern
As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns.
~ Mary Antin
In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story - 'The Memory Erasers'.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon