Quotes About Night

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

All men, if they are honest, are scared of the dark. The arrival of light, even a glimmer under the edge of a door, lifts the spirit in a way that can't be described, because it dates back to a time before language. Hope returns, night terrors evaporate. You smile at the childishness of it all, the demons who haunted your sleep. It was just a dream.

Skating a nail over his enormous chest, Eva murmured, "So what's a lioness to do on her mating night?" His lip lifted in a sexy snarl. "She runs with the wolf.

Expression triumphant and fierce, arms lifted to the night sky as if it were hers to rule, who was this stunning creature?

Soledat! Soledat! Soledat! Desconeguts en els quals fixar el nostre afany impossible durant les breus hores d'una nit, rostres que un moment semblaven preciosos però que tot seguit calia avorrir, contactes furtius i sense satisfacció en les cambres anònimes on, més que estimar-nos, ens prostituïem...

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

Le souvenir de cette nuit me hante encore, comme celui d'un moment d'intimité où nous chassions la mort; je savais déjà qu'aucune autre compagne de m'offrirait semblable étreinte, et cette pensée me fit peur.

they spent the night together, so I suppose it was

A much more likely candidate for influencing a baby's sleeping patterns is the hormone melatonin, which is produced by the baby's brain beginning at about 3 to 4 months of age. This hormone surges at night and has the capability to both induce drowsiness and relax the smooth muscles encircling the gut. So around 3 or 4 months of age, so-called day/night confusion and apparent abdominal cramps (colic) begin to disappear.

In one study, when children learned how to cope with frustration during the day, they were observed to settle themselves better at bedtime and later at night when they awoke.

As night falls, the weary creatures of earth, And the woods and the frothing seas, Grow calm like the stars as they circle their course, And sleep with quiet ease. And so all creatures far and wide, From the craggy fields to the glassy lakes, Stretch and live 'neath the silent night, And sleep takes away their worries and aches. —VIRGIL, The Aeneid

Remember, late bedtimes usually cause less night sleep. In addition, sleeping out of phase with the body's natural rhythms, as shift workers do or as travelers do when crossing time zones, is as unhealthy as jet lag syndrome.

Tears rose to her eyes. It was the water of the hills, which could have saved her father, and instead wasted its richness in the sterile rocks and the subterranean night...

May you always see a blue sky overhead, my young friend; and then, even when the time comes, as it has come for me now, when the woods are black, when night is fast falling, you will be able to console yourself, as I do, by looking up at the sky.

They buried him, but all through the night of mourning, in the lighted windows, his books arranged three by three kept watch like angels with outspread wings and seemed for him who was no more; the symbol of his resurrection

Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure.

My aching heart was soothed; I let myself be borne upon the current of this gentle night ...

From the pavement, I could see the window of Albertine's room, that window, formerly quite black, at night, when she was not staying in the house, which the electric light inside, dissected by the slats of the shutters, striped from top to bottom with parallel bars of gold.

He imagined himself lying there, unable to sleep, thinking of his mother, separated from her by the unresponsive blankets tucked too tightly round him, feeling the ceaseless thumping of his heart in the silence of the night, the irrevocability of absence, the rigid stillness of repose, the agony of solitude and sleeplessness. If the room was a prison, the bed was a tomb.

Like a fruit hidden among its leaves, which has grown and ripened unobserved by man, until it falls of its own accord, there came upon us one night the kitchen-maid's confinement.

En realidad, esos sollozos no cesaron nunca; y porque la vida va callándose cada vez más en torno mío, es por lo que los vuelvo a oír, como esas campanillas de los conventos tan bien veladas durante el día pro el rumor de la ciudad, que parece que se pararon, pero que tornan a tañer en el silencio de la noche.

And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

I sung of chaos and eternal night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down the dark decent, and up to reascend...

Majestic though in ruin: sage he stood With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest Monarchies his look Drew audience and attention still as Night Or Summers Noon-tide air while thus he spake.