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Quotes About Midnight

There was, indeed, no life. Stillness and silence ruled here. In fact Tiffany, who cared a lot about getting words right, would have said it was a hush, which is not the same as silence. A hush is what you get in cathedrals at midnight.
~ Terry Pratchett
When I'm old I shall wear midnight, she'd decided. But, for now, she'd had enough of darkness.
~ Terry Pratchett
There is a night that never comes to an end.... The clock of the world turns under its own shadow. Midnight is a moving place, hurtling around the planet at a thousand miles an hour like a dark knike, cutting slices of daily bread off the endless loaf of Time.
~ Terry Pratchett
I came for midnight Mass, didn't I? He gave a weary laugh, Everyone shows up at Christmas. Even the ones who don't believe.
~ Tess Gerritsen
I ran out of stock around midnight and dropped by a place, got some Chinese." I hoped he meant takeout.
~ Karen Chance
Fresh blood at midnight isn't red. It's a purplish black that easily blends into the shadows.
~ Karen Chance
I encountered a glowing green raccoon riding a neon orange motorcycle at my cabin in the woods of northern California around midnight one night in 1985. The raccoon proceeded to metamorphose into a singing dolphin at the stroke of midnight.
~ Kary Mullis
Chapter 1 In the bitter cold of a late December night, the gargoyle's sharp gaze scanned restlessly over the deserted streets of Dublin. Not far below, the clock in the tower of St. Patrick's Cathedral began to strike midnight. The sound of the bell reverberated on a breeze brittle with the promise of snow, skittering among the city's chimneys and across frost-kissed slate roofs. Very soon, the rhythm was picked up by other clocks elsewhere in the sleeping city.
~ Katherine Kurtz
In that moment, the machinery of the world lined up. Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo's future seemed to fall perfectly into place.
~ Brian Selznick
Timothy Leary and I kept the same hours. He believed, as I do, that "After midnight, all things are possible.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
MIDNIGHT AMONG THE WORMS
~ Ian Fleming
Midnight comes often in the dusk of my life, when I look back upon all that I have survived. The deaths of so many for whom I cared and loved in my heart, have expunged all sense of glory from my thoughts. To have escaped those random fates has lost all triumph. I know you have seen me, friend, my lined face and silent regard, the cold calcretions that slow my embittered pace, as I walk down the last years, clothed in darkness as are all old men, haunted by memories …
~ Steven Erikson
The moon sailed up the star-shot sky and the air colled towards the graveyard hours beyond the midnight chilling my skin through my lace stole.
~ Storm Constantine
We played this game from the west village to the upper east side til around midnight when the Chrysler building was far behind us and we weren't sure if we were in love anymore.
~ Darnell Lamont Walker
You rang my heart like a church bell at midnight. Trembling, I awoke to the sweet sound of love.
~ John Mark Green
For a more than miffed Midnight, fate was for emperors, fools and soppy lovers: - fate was the self-important egotism of those doing well, the sheer unbearable arrogance of the living and loved.
~ Tom Conrad
We dreamt of a crappy apartment somewhereMaking love while we let the midnight airFlow through the open window, into our closed heartsLeft bitter from heartbreak and too much time apart
~ Jessica-Lynn Barbour
Unii spun c? în noaptea aceasta, exact la miezul nopÅ£ii, se deschid cerurile. (…) Dar probabil c? se deschid numai pentru cei care ÅŸtiu cum s? le priveasc?.
~ Mircea Eliade
The halls of academia are like the halls of a madhouse at midnight.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
The midnight bell, the bird of dawn? But ah! they're sorrowful indeed When loosen'd was the damask zone.
~ Murasaki Shikibu
A few days later, shortly after midnight, Cabestany's warehouse in Pueblo Nuevo burned down to its foundations. And for free.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
And so, under cover of midnight, a couple of Sugus, and the spell of memories that were threatening to disappear in the mist of time, Fermin began to connect the threads that would weave the end and the beginning of our story....
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Be sure to get her home before midnight. She turns into a rabid coyote when the clock strikes twelve. Sawyer moved on down the bar to fill a pitcher with beer. That true, darlin'? Tyrell asked. Got to take the bad with the good, Jill answered.
~ Carolyn Brown
A lot of times I like to listen to albums between midnight and three in the morning - it's my favorite listening hours. I get to sit at my bed, put my headphones on and just let the music consume me.
~ Max Cavalera