Quotes About Night

el conticinio, un latinajo, la hora de la noche en que todo guarda silencio de mutuo acuerdo

A las doce y cuatro minutos de la noche del 13 de mayo de 1804, cinco días después de haber zarpado de La Guaira, el San Luis navegaba a la altura de Barranquilla cuando Salvany,

The night has already turned on that imperceptible pivot where two A.M. changes to six A.M. You know this moment has come and gone, but you are not yet willing to concede that you have crossed the line beyond which all is gratuitous damage and the palsy of unraveled nerve endings. Somewhere back there you could have cut your losses, but your rode past that moment on a comet trail of white powder and now you are trying to hang on to the rush.

I must say this now about that first fire. It was magic. Out of dead tinder and grass and sticks came a live warm light. It cracked and snapped and smoked and filled the woods with brightness. It lighted the trees and made them warm and friendly. It stood tall and bright and held back the night.

Germania hitlerist? dresa ?i domina instinctele s?lbatice ale omului ?i punea în slujba ei toat? magia pe care o pot genera noaptea, t?cerea ?i fr??ia de sânge.

We're all hoping that the remains of the Nueva Cadiz haven't been moved by the storm out of Rafe's lease sites. "If they have been," Tia says, "I'll go out at night and move them back, piece by piece.

Divine s'offrait à la nuit afin d'être dévorée de tendresse par elle et jamais plus vomie

The atmosphere of the night, the smell rising from the blocked latrines, overflowing with shit and yellow water, stir childhood memories which rise up like a black soil mined by moles.

Blot out the moon, Pull down the stars. Love in the dark, for we're for the dark So soon, so soon.

The show was over and you had a sinister feeling that out there in the darkness all over the country there were millions of kids—decoding.

Night winds in Georgia are vagrant poets, whispering.

I hate the moonlight because it's beautiful and he isn't here to see it with me.

Je la sentais entre mes mains, ivre, décoiffée, volontaire, et je devinais une sorte d'effort de son visage pour ne pas disparaître, ne pas s'effacer dans la nuit.

Cada noche se decía: "Debe ser menos hermosa de lo que creo, es mi imaginación que se desboca", y cada noche se desmentía y la encontraba más bonita que el día anterior.

In his analysis of the sublime effect, Edmund Burke termed 'horror' the state of mind of a person whose participation in speech is threatened. The power which exceeds the capacity of interlocution resembles night.

Oh, how I wish I could make those who see my work feel the splendors and terrors of the night! One ought to be able to make people hear the songs, the silences, and murmurings of the air. They should feel the infinite.

Where are you, bloodsuckers? Here, fangy, fangy, fangy...

Late into the night she reads, and the lamplight falls in a soft circle across her tented knees, across the warm blankets, across Luca's casting breath. In their new home, Lydia rereads Amor en los tiempos del colera, first in Spanish, then again in English. No one can take this from her. This book is hers alone.

Es mi cielo, mi luna, y todas mis estrellas.

That night they left the tooth beneath his pillow and El Ratoncito Pérez came to retrieve it, leaving Luca a poem and a new toothbrush in its place.

The moonlight had turned the gardens into a fairyland, magnificent and mysterious.

Skye picked her up and tucked her in next to Batty, who now stirred and murmured a few words that sounded like "bee" and "sharp." This made no sense to Skye—and then she wondered if Rosalind had ever gone around at night listening to her sisters talking in their sleep. How strange. But Skye had nothing to worry about. She was certain that anything she herself said would be more interesting than boys' names or bees.

Troubles always seemed more severe after the sun went down. Even irrational worries and fears could seem perfectly logical at midnight.

No one wants to stumble into gates on moonless nights to trip in holes dug by dogs, but Maria finds more beauty than danger in night.