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Quotes About Night

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.
~ Dean Koontz
There's no use wasting are energy being afraid of the devils, demons and things that go bump in the night... Because ultimately we'll never encounter anything more terrifying than the monster among us. Hell is where we make it.
~ Dean Koontz
The hard rain nailed the night to the city.
~ Dean Koontz
A silent dark...as black as a moonless lake, as a ravine's wings, darkness there and nothing more, merely this and nothing more...
~ Dean Koontz
Night has patterns that can be read less by the living than by the dead.
~ Dean Koontz
I would return home to la maison, feminine where, as likely as not, I would go to my room, la chambre, where I would settle to read un livre masculine, until supper. During the masculine meal, feminine food would be eaten. After my hard, productive masculine day, I would rest during the feminine night. At one time, for a few days, I even took an affected aversion to being in the kitchen, la cuisine.
~ Yann Martel
The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Now that Otoko had heard about the night at Enoshima, that old love flared up ominously within her. Yet in those flames she could see a single white lotus blossom. Their love was a dreamlike flower that not even Keiko could stain.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Ella, mientras dormía, pronunciaba palabras de amor con los dedos de los pies.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Seara, înainte s? adorm, închid ochii È™i num?r b?rbaÈ›ii pe care mi-ar pl?cea s?-i s?rut. Îi num?r folosind degetele. E distractiv. Când sunt mai puÈ›in de cele zece degete m? simt trist?.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Las noches ofrecen sapos, perros negro y cadáveres de ahogados.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
The Milky Way came down just over there, to wrap the night earth in its naked embrace. There was a terrible voluptuousness about it.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
It was a stern night landscape. The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void. As the stars came nearer, the sky retreated deeper and deeper into the night color.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
It was such a beautiful voice that it struck one as sad. In all its high resonance it seemed to come echoing back across the snowy night.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Su voz era tan dulce que daba tristeza que reverberara en la noche helada.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
When you smile, serious ideas get exhausted. At night the mountains keep quiet beside you, in the morning the sand goes with you down to the beach. When you do nice things to me all the heavy industries shut down.
~ Yehuda Amichai
My girlfriend forgot her love on the sidewalk like a bicycle. All night outside, in the dew.
~ Yehuda Amichai
In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away.
~ Yosa Buson
The fate of the young man in his headphones, who faced a jail cell that very night, did not seem such a world away from his own predicament: an anniversary party full of academics.
~ Zadie Smith
for the Owl there was something Infinitely Preferable About the Night. The Owl had difficulty explaining this to other birds.
~ Zadie Smith
I saw a bush taxi rumble down the one good road in the moonlight. Kids hung from it even at this hour, and three young men lay on their bellies on its roof, holding down a mattress with the weight of their own bodies. I felt that wave of absurdity, of pointlessness, that usually caught me in the earliest hours.
~ Zadie Smith
Every day I awake believing—still believing. The day grows, and with it doubts, fears, and that black bat hate that bites hotter and hotter into my heart. Then comes night—
~ Zane Grey
With that they, and many others, left the hall and joined the moving crowd in the street. The night was delightfully cool. Stars shone white in a velvet sky. The dry wind from mountain and desert blew in their faces. Pan
~ Zane Grey
there's a terrible silence before a predator's night sometimes an absurd airplane appears in the sky it throws out leaflets calling for surrender I would be happy to surrender but I've no one to surrender to
~ Zbigniew Herbert