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Quotes About Night

She knew she was not going to sleep, as surely as she knew she was not going to fly out of the window.
~ Ken Follett
You can make a mark across the night with the tip of an embered stick, and you can actually see it fixed in its finity. You can be absolutely sure of its treacherous impermanence. And that is all.
~ Ken Kesey
And the forest at night might be beautiful, but if it was dark how was a man to know that?
~ Ken Kesey
You can make a mark across the night with the tip of an embered stick, and you can actually see it fixed in its finity. You can be absolutely certain of its treacherous impermanence.
~ Ken Kesey
Those who had been in on the night started telling about it with a kind of quiet pride and wonder, the way people tell about seeing a big hotel fire or a dam bursting — very solemn and respectful because the casualties aren't even counted yet — but the longer the telling went on, the less solemn the fellows got.
~ Ken Kesey
Meaning: Good night but stay. Viv, silent and slim as a shaft of sleepy light, stay, talk more to me with your articulate eyes. Hank, forget my words behind my words, stay, say some more. This is our chance. This is my chance. Say enough more for love or hate, enough more to make me sure of one or the other. Please stay, please stay .
~ Ken Kesey
With a sudden shock of the utterly obvious, you recognize your own Original Face, the face you had prior to the Big Bang, the face of utter Emptiness that smiles as all creation and sings as the entire Kosmos—and it is all undone in that primal glance, and all that is left is the smile, and the reflection of the moon on a quiet pond, late on a crystal clear night.
~ Ken Wilber
Moon appears to shine and light the sky with the help of some fireflies, wonder how they have the power to shine?
~ Peter Frampton
Whether dark presages of the night proceed from any latent power of the soul during her abstraction, or from any operation of subordinate spirits, has been a dispute.
~ Joseph Addison
Evening work is economical. Power comes most cheaply by night.
~ Alan Moore, Fashion Beast
I rather fight for light then to go blind in night.
~ Nadair Desmar
I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.
~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light, Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer; Their pure breath sanctifies the air, As its fragrance fills the night.
~ Julia Caroline Dorr
Even a man who's pure in heart And says his prayers by night, May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms And the autumn moon is bright.
~ Curt Siodmak
Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.
~ John Knowles
And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
~ Pablo Neruda
All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
~ Sappho
Love can make a summer fly, or a night seem like a lifetime.
~ Andrew Lloyd Webber
I passed out in our front yard. But honey, don't turn out the light, cause I think I'm in the mood for love tonight.
~ Robert Earl Keen
Gregory hid out following the murder of Lazia. On the night of July 30, 1934
~ William Ouseley
the love had grown cold, and in the night he heard it whistling through the chambers of his heart like a lost and gently crying wind.
~ William Peter Blatty
The sun sinks to rise again; the day is swallowed up in the gloom of night, to be born out of it, as fresh as if it had never been quenched.
~ William Peter Blatty
These the seeds of vocation. From these he had fled into love, but now the love had grown cold, and in the night he heard it whistling through the chambers of his heart like a lost and gently crying wind.
~ William Peter Blatty
Karl made a dash across the room, got ahead of Karras and pulled the front door open for him. They exchanged brief glances, and then Karras stepped out into the rainy night.
~ William Peter Blatty