Quotes About Night

So we'll go no more a roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright.

Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight

I am so tired; all I want to do is sleep. I want to sleep all the day, from dawn until twilight that every evening comes a little earlier and a little more drearily. In the daytime, all I can think about is sleeping. But in the night I do is try to stay awake.

She stood silent among the quiet sounds of the night, and certainty came to her.

There is nothing but the gleam of mysterious light—not dawn and yet not starlight—where the unlit earth meets the night-black sky, and the only sound is the haunting call of the owls.

Come try my strength, you dogs who thought to attack helpless prey! But when you do, O beasts of night, know that you face the Lord of Night. I am Death!

Our men have aversion spells on their hats," Gnifty continued. She was really quite talkative, now that the ice had been broken. "So that no big monsters come near, just creatures small enough to be hunted at night. When a dragon is near, they cry, 'Hang onto your hat!

Rosalie lay awake late at night, alone in her unwomaned bed

The truck went on its way in the night and Gedaleh shouted, laughing, If not this way, how? And if not now, when?

Und es kam die Nacht, und man wurde gewahr, dass menschliche Augen so eine Nacht nicht hätten erleben und überleben dürfen. Alle empfanden dies: Und keiner von den Wachen, kein Italiener und kein Deutscher, traute sich mitanzusehen, was Menschen tun, die wissen, dass sie sterben müssen.

poi scese una notte totale, atrocemente gelida, senza luci in cielo né in terra.

Nox atra cava circumvolat umbra

He struck his own fire, listened to the night wind roar through the trees. Sometimes, when he could see it, he stared at the Conriyan encampment and counted fires like an idiot child. "Always number your foemen," his father had once told him, "by the glitter of their fires." Sometimes he gazed at the stars and wondered if they too were his enemies.

I dreamed about melons that night. I dreamed that a casaba melon grew in our front yard. Grew and grew and grew. Bigger than our house. Something startled me out of my melon dream. I fumbled for my alarm clock. One A.M. Then I heard a howl. A low, mournful howl. Outside the house. I jumped out of bed and hurried to the window.

liked to tell me ghost stories that happened here. He said ghosts walked the halls at night, clanking their chains." Robby shook his head. "Why do ghosts always have to clank chains?" he said. "If they are ghosts, couldn't they just slip out of their chains?

The scarecrow walks at midnight," he uttered in a low voice.

He squinted at us. You really believe there might be zombies in Franklin Village? Maybe, I said. We just thought we'd patrol at night and search for them. But that could be dangerous, Trevor said. He leaned toward us. His eyes darted from Alec to me. That could be very dangerous. A chill rolled down my back. He had suddenly changed. His voice deepened. And his words sounded like a warning. Or a threat.

When you sleep later than a vampire, Claire thought, that's probably taking it a little too far.

Michael might have become a vampire, but watching him stand outside in the night air, breathing in his freedom Claire thought that was as human as it could get.

Myrnin: Oh, an all-night drive-through! I could murder a cheeseburger. Don't you just love this century? Oliver: Focus, you fool.

She'd never really been afraid of the dark, but dark wasn't really dark most of the time.... There were stars, moonlight, distant streetlights. This was pitch-black, take-no-prisoners dark, and she had the ice-cold feeling that anything could be right next to her, reaching out for her, and she'd never see it coming.

What time is it? Three a.m. Michael's making a snack. You want anything? Um...no. Thanks. She slid off the couch and then stood there like an idiot, unwilling to leave because he was still smiling and...she liked it. Who won? Which game? Oh. I guess I was asleep for a while. Don't worry. We didn't let the zombies get you. This time, his smile was positively wicked. Claire felt it like a hot blanket all over her skin.

The next time you stand on a beach at night, watching the moon's bright path across the water, and the conscious of the moon-drawn tides, remember that the moon itself may have been born of a great tidal wave of earthly substance, torn off into space. And remember if the moon was formed in this fashion, the event may have had much to do with shaping the ocean basins and the continents as we know them.

the infinite Manhattan night.