Quotes About Night

Persons of quality had devoted yester evening and much of the night to liquidating their holdings in the South Sea Company and gathering in clubs and coffeehouses to misinform one another.

You see I'm against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.

The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.

Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear.

From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties And things that go bump in the night good Lord deliver us!

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.

If there never was a night or day and memories could fade away, then we'd be nothing left but the dreams we made

And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

Maybe more youngsters would stay home at nights if they were not afraid to stay alone at nights.

Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.

Witches are moon-birds, Witches are the women of the false, beautiful moon.

Can you see through the night, woman, that you stare so upon it? Man, what sparks do your eyes follow in the smouldering darkness?

An empty day, though clear and bright, Is just as dark as any night.

A full-throttled deployment of the practices of strategic communication would kill candor and leave truth bereft to fend for herself in the backstabbing night of political bogeys.

She wanted to reach up to the night and dig her fingers into it, beg it to stay just a little bit longer.

Now there were stars overhead, hanging like frozen spears of light, stabbing the night sky.

He'd felt the same way some nights on patrol, hearing the jungle shift and creak around him in the dark. His head saying, go ahead, take your best shot, I'm not scared of you slanty-eyed buttwipes. And at the same time his heart was trying to parachute out his asshole.

O, de light-bugs glimmer down de lane,   Merlindy! Merlindy! O, de whip'-will callin' notes ur pain—   Merlindy, O, Merlindy!

Shake out the ruffle, turn and go,Over the trellis blow the kiss.Some of the guests will never knowAnother night to shadow this.Some of the birds awake in vinesWill never see another faceSo frail, so lovely anyplaceBetween the birdbath and the bines.

In the dark night of the soul, it is always three A.M.

Cutcutcutcutcutcut . . . At 4:10, the machine lifted off the roof of Mitford Hospital and, in the starless night, burned itself away.