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Quotes About Night

He'd walked as a ghost in the gloomy bowels of this opera house for so long, darkness had become his brother, which was fitting, since his father was the night, and sunlight their forgotten friend.
~ Unknown
Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.
~ Joanna Southcott
At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came closer, soon there would be only minor difference between shooting a dog and shooting a man.
~ Dinaw Mengestu
With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it.
~ Henry Beston
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Dread of night. Dread of not-night.
~ Franz Kafka
In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
~ William Shakespeare
In terms of fear, I still am most afraid of Freddie Kruger.
~ Andrew Mason
Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
~ William Shakespeare
I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night's sleep; the second kills.
~ Agnes de Mille
The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass.
~ Stanislaw Lem
This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
More than fear of loving bears or birds bigger than cows, I fear pathless nights. How, I wonder, can I find you in the dark?
~ Toni Morrison
The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Every fear, every night terror, every hour I cried for Liev, every fight with Sebastian is registered as a neat white scar.
~ Emma Forrest
Every single night I'm nervous.
~ Vivien Leigh
Oh, pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.
~ Thomas Haynes Bayly
I don't like coming over here at night, the girl said. The bayou is scary in the dark, all manner of things running wild out there.
~ Samuel Snoek-Brown, Hagridden
Blessed is the man who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
~ Unknown
Just remember when times get tough. There's always a way out. For even at night there's always the light shingling from the stars, the light guiding you back to safety.
~ Unknown
Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, where the heck is the ceiling.
~ Unknown
There are those who say life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which to spend your time. But I prefer to think that is a book is like life, particularly a good one, which is worth staying up all night to finish.
~ Lemony Snicket
You cant change everything in one night, but one night can change everything.
~ Unknown