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Quotes About Midnight

It was midnight when I parked my car under Union Square. A wet wind blew across the almost deserted square, blowing fogged breath from the sea on the dark pavements. Flashing neons on all four sides repudiated the night.
~ Ross MacDonald
As I pass through the lengthy struggle of life in this fleeting world, I cannot help but long for the midnight moon I once saw."- Kanna
~ Rumiko Takahashi
Tonight's December thirty-first, something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!
~ Ogden Nash
The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
~ Sappho
Got a buddy in the NOPD who says there's a rumor you're with some private agency. Who? (Brady) And I slice open chickens at midnight to sacrifice to the great gods of Santeria. (Terri)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Even though it was after midnight, the lights were still burning in Baron Arald's office when Halt and Gilan reached the castle. The Baron and Sir Rodney, Redmont's Battlemaster, had a lot of planning to do, preparing for the march to the Plains of Uthal, where they would join the rest of the kingdom's army. When Halt explained Gilan's need, Sir Rodney was quick to see where the Ranger's thinking was headed.
~ John Flanagan
Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toilO'er books consumed the midnight oil?
~ John Gay
Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy!
~ John Keats
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
His voice was a bare whisper, resonant of violoncello and the wind of midnight trees.
~ Elizabeth Bear
From a magician's midnight sleeve the radio-singers distribute all their love-songs over the dew-wet lawns.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims...
~ Arundhati Roy
I love Maggi,' he said. 'It is food's version of a 3 a.m. friend—warm and comforting.
~ Avijit Ghosh
Midnight Visitors,' whispered Suzy fearfully. 'With nightmare-whips and night-gloves.
~ Garth Nix
I was a hip kid. When I saw Bambi it was the midnight show.
~ George Carlin
I was going to go to a midnight screening of 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure' in college, and it's the sort of thing where people dress up. So I got dressed up, and then I got lost. I was speeding, and a cop pulled me over while I was wearing a Pee-wee suit. That's a hard ticket to get out of.
~ Paul Rust
It was well past midnight, quiet, few people around. All noises had retreated. The night seemed to have its own resonance. At that hour, the city's a gong that was struck at noon and is not yet quite still.
~ Sam Thompson
Let Christ's love bear most court in your soul, and that court will bear down the love of other things. Christ chargeth me to believe His daylight at midnight.
~ Samuel Rutherford
The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
~ Sappho
The moon has set And the Pleiades. Midnight. I lie in bed alone.
~ Sappho
Kuu laskenut ja Seulaset On keskiyö, minun aikani on ohi Nukun yksin
~ Sappho
The Moon and Pleiades have set, / Midnight is nigh, / The time is passing, passing, yet / Alone I lie.
~ Sappho
When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it.
~ Edward Abbey
Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
~ Robert Burns