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Quotes About Midnight

Half an hour past midnight. Death came for him. And for the little family curled up and asleep on a blue cross-stitch counterpane? What came for them? Not death Just the end of living. (304)
~ Arundhati Roy
How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
~ Audre Lorde
As I sat on the midnight PVTA bus to Amherst, I scanned the male faces, looking for a potential boyfriend. My standards were high: anyone who looked back at me.
~ Augusten Burroughs
I heard thee laugh, And in this merriment I defined the measure of my pain; I knew that I was alone, Alone with love, Poor shivering love, And he, little sprite, Came to watch with me, And at midnight We were like two creatures by a dead camp-fire.
~ Stephen Crane
When the roof fell in, a great funnel of smoke swarmed toward the sky, as if the old man's mighty spirit, released from its body--a little bottle--had swelled like the genie of fable. The smoke was tinted rose-hue from the flames, and perhaps the unutterable midnights of the universe will have no power to daunt the colour of this soul.
~ Stephen Crane
Nobody likes a clown at midnight
~ Stephen King
Bill could smell Its breath and it was a smell like exploded animals lying on the highway at midnight.
~ Stephen King
Sing it like the midnight wind, Sing it like a prayer; Sing it on to the way to hell, Them blues'll take you there. —Oren Morse, Dead Man's Song
~ Jonathan Maberry
The time is always right to do what is right. Now is the time to realize the American dream. Now is the time to transform the bleak and desolate midnight of man's inhumanity to man into a glowing daybreak of justice and freedom." Such
~ Jonathan Rieder
I am Midnight (cats stare dumbfounded)
~ Erin Hunter
Midnight has come.
~ Erin Hunter
THE PROPHECIES BEGIN Book One: Into the Wild Book Two: Fire and Ice Book Three: Forest of Secrets Book Four: Rising Storm Book Five: A Dangerous Path Book Six: The Darkest Hour THE NEW PROPHECY Book One: Midnight Book Two: Moonrise Book Three: Dawn Book Four: Starlight Book Five: Twilight Book Six: Sunset
~ Erin Hunter
THE PROPHECIES BEGIN Book One: Into the Wild Book Two: Fire and Ice Book Three: Forest of Secrets Book Four: Rising Storm Book Five: A Dangerous Path Book Six: The Darkest Hour THE NEW PROPHECY Book One: Midnight Book Two: Moonrise Book Three: Dawn Book Four: Starlight Book Five:
~ Erin Hunter
Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.
~ beecher henry ward v
Lies we tell ourselves are the ghosts that haunt the empty house of midnight.
~ Gregory David Roberts
So, while fire and smoke singed the midnight sky, and bells and sirens railed about a kilometre away, we directed our men as they moved the heavy equipment into the new factory. And Krishna and Villu went to work almost at once.
~ Gregory David Roberts
It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?
~ Bram Stoker
He said it would come down at exactly twenty-three minutes after midnight, and it did. A day is twenty-four hours. Twenty-three minutes after midnight is 24:23.
~ Sean Chercover
There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate.
~ Shannon Hale
Sleep comes its little while. Then I wake in the valley of midnight or three a.m. to the first fragrances of spring which is coming, all by itself, no matter what. My heart says, what you thought you have you do not have. My body says, will this pounding ever stop? My heart says: there, there, be a good student. My body says: let me up and out, I want to fondle those soft white flowers, open in the night.
~ Mary Oliver
Sleep comes its little while. Then I wake in the valley of midnight or three a.m. to the first fragrances of spring which is coming, all by itself, no matter what.
~ Mary Oliver
The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding-places.
~ Mary Shelley
What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.
~ Mary Shelley
Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice
~ Basho