Quotes About Night

The way I pictured it, all this grief would be like a winter night when you're standing outside. You'll warm up once you get used to the cold. Except after you've been out there for awhile, you feel the warmth draining out of you and you realize the opposite is happening; you're getting colder and colder, as the body heat you brought outside with you seeps out of your skin. Instead of getting used to it, you get weaker the longer you endure it.

What're you still doing up? You know all good little ninjas should be in bed, visions of homicidal sugarplums dancing in their heads.

One evening in our bedroom, with Dominique asleep and me up watching TV, I was startled by a bird flying manically around the room. After a moment I realized it wasn't a bird at all—it was a bat. I'd duck every time it flew over the bed, trying to figure out what to do. Eventually I crawled along the floor to the wall and opened a window, and it flew right out. The

Come cuddle close in daddy's coat Beside the fire so bright, And hear about the fairy folk That wander in the night.

In life's poker game, the optimist sees the pessimist's night and raises him the sunrise.

Sometimes I sit up late with my thoughts, reluctant to fall asleep and leave my thoughts alone by themselves.

Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.

When men were all asleep, the snow came flying,In large white flakes falling on the city brown,Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying,Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town.

The evening darkens over After a day so bright, The windcapt waves discover That wild will be the night.

What shall I do with the night and the day, with this life and this death?

There is something mournful and uneasy about waking up late at night on a moving train. The wheels clicked a bony rhythm, the engine growled like a distant Leviathan, and from time to time the whistle sounded a cry so lonesome it seemed to speak for the whole wide moonless night.

In fact fear is probably the strongest human emotion, period. Whoever woke at four in the morning because they were feeling happy?

You can at least say this for the blackout, he thought, it has given us back the stars.

O Jesus burning on the lily cross... O night, rawhead and bloodybones night... O night betrayed by darkness not its own.

Out of the night Hopper came, and Perrin was one with the wolf. Hopper, the cub who had watched the eagles soar, and wanted so badly to fly through the sky as the eagles did. The cub who hopped and jumped and leaped until he could leap higher than any other wolf, who never lost the cub's yearning to soar through the sky. [...] Something crashed into his head, and as he fell, he did not know if it was Hopper or himself who died.

They could put up a warning sign or something. Hello. Welcome to Hinderstap. We will murder you in the night and eat your bloody face if you stay past sunset. Try the pies. Martna Baily makes them fresh daily.

In the last, lorn fight 'gainst the fall of long night, the mountains stand guard, and dead shall be ward, for the grave is no bar to my call.

At dawn the day was born, just as twilight gave birth to night, but at dawn, night died, and at twilight, day.

In the last, lorn fight 'gainst the fall of long night, the mountains stand guard, and the dead shall be ward, for the grave is no bar to my call.

clutching his blanket around him. Using every bit of skill he had gained stalking

Mat sacudió con asombro la cabeza. «¿Cuánta gente hay en los tejados esta noche?» Sólo faltaba que se presentara Thom y se pusiera a tocar el arpa, o alguien preguntando las señas de una posada.

It was easier to pretend at night. Some men lived their entire lives that way, preferring the curtains of darkness to the open windows of daylight, because they let them see the world all in shadow. It

Women are a maze through briars in the night

Daughter of the Night, she walks again. The ancient war, she yet fights. Her new lover she seeks, who shall serve her and die, yet serve still.