Quotes About Bad Nights

#1. That which we call civilization is merely the accumulated debris of a chilling number of bad nights.

Fran Lebowitz

#2. Bad nights lead to better days

Ryan Adams

#3. But unshed tears can turn rancid. So can memory. So can biting your tongue. My bad nights were beginning. I couldn't sleep.

Margaret Atwood

#4. I think I'd better take some of Gramps' sleeping pills, I'm never going to be able to sleep without them. In fact I think I'd better take a supply of them. He's got plenty, and I'm sure I'll have a few bad nights at home before I get straightened out. Oh, I hope it's just a few.

Beatrice Sparks

#5. All bad nights come to an end.

Samantha Schutz

#6. The bad nights made the good ones impossible to enjoy; the good nights made the bad ones worse.

R. Lee Smith

#7. Some good-bad nights I spent, loving my self-hatred.

Don DeLillo

#8. On bad nights he would lose control altogether and break down, sobbing into his pillow. Yet he knew that if she returned to him both of them would suffer again.

Bao Ninh

#9. Yeah and it's over before you know it
It all goes by so fast
Yeah the bad nights take forever
And the good nights don't ever seem to last

Tom Petty

#10. It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.

Yann Martel

#11. People say, 'Jay, you're a great guy, you just had a couple of bad nights.' People that have themselves under control don't have a couple of bad nights like that. Plain and simple.

Jayson Williams

#12. I'm a firm believer in shades of gray.

Blake Ross

#13. It's tough being a dictator, but I've always thought it must be tougher being a hanger-on to a dictator. The late nights spent listening to his crazed ranting, the weary rictus grin from smiling at bad jokes, the draining knowledge that one misjudged comment could land you on the chopping block.

John Niven

#14. People are more likely to believe a big lie than a small one.

Adolf Hitler

#15. I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintace. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter nights.

Raymond Chandler

#16. Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

Susan Powter

#17. Reading is a tool no one can take away. A million bad things may happen in life and it'll still be with you, like a flashlight that never needs a battary. Reading can offer a crack of light on the blackest of nights.

Blue Balliett

#18. It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

Oliver Evans

#19. I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.

Werner Herzog

#20. That was one of the most rewarding things about spending nights in the open. Birds were bound to wake you up, and whether they carried good or bad luck, at least they woke you up with music.

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

#21. I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.'

Vera Farmiga

#22. It was weird because I was pregnant, throughout that so it was weird being a pregnant witch. I was in a really bad mood but luckily, because I sleep with the director, he just sort of scheduled me so I only had to do it two nights.

Helena Bonham Carter

#23. Better. Some nights it's hard to sleep. So I take a pain pill. I hate them." "You'd make a bad drug addict." "Maybe not. I really liked pot. I really did.

Anonymous

#24. If time were a bolt of cloth," said Om, "I would cut out all the bad parts. Snip out the scary nights and stitch together the good parts, to make time bearable. Then I could wear it like a coat, always live happily.

Rohinton Mistry

#25. The bad news is, your choices and intentions, some people and places, those nights spent awake and all you've done, can lead you to the bottom of the pit. The good news is, this wouldn't be the first time someone's crawled, tooth and nail, out of hell.

Pleasefindthis

#26. If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Ernst Fischer

#27. ...Hey Biatch... listen... if not it comes with it's own consequences.

Deyth Banger

#28. It was one of those rare nights when I was kept awake not by my nightmares and anxieties but by something exciting and exhilarating. Most nights I lay awake waiting for some unexpected disaster ... I think I somehow felt that as long as I was conscious, nothing bad could happen ...

Azar Nafisi

#29. He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.

Robert Cormier

#30. His megawatt smile ramped up a few volts.

Holly Ford

#31. Nobody wants to see the village of the happy people.

Lew Hunter

#32. I want to remember it all, the good times and the bad times, the late nights, the boozing, the dancing into dawns, and all the great and not-so-great people I met and loved in those years ...

Ava Gardner

#33. William Kowalski is the kind of storyteller you don't see quite enough these days. The yarn spinner with a generous soul. The Hundred Hearts is a moving, humane adventure about the price of personal connections and the costs of sacrifice. I tore through this bad boy in two short nights.

Victor LaValle