Top 100 Quotes About Midnight
#1. I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before - the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.
Karl Lagerfeld
#2. It's midnight Cinderella, but don't worry none. Cause I'm Peter the Pumpkin Eater and the party's just begun.
Garth Brooks
#3. Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.
Henry Ward Beecher
#4. Price and Cost. Sometimes we pay more. Sometimes we pay less. You've got to determine what you are willing to pay for success.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#5. A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.
Johnny Cash
#6. Midnight! the outpost of advancing day!
The frontier town and citadel of night!
The watershed of Time, from which the streams
Of Yesterday and To-morrow take their way,
One to the land of promise and of light,
One to the land of darkness and of dreams!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#7. The ocean sleeps. The ocean wakes. And the waking of the ocean is the waking of the soul. At midnight wakefulness springs from within the ocean.
Wasif Ali Wasif
#8. A guy who is equipped mentally and educationally doesn't need a confidence check. He is positioned and prepared to GO. Are you?
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#9. I'm impressed you got up here so quickly - and without a pack of court ladies hounding after you. Perhaps you should try your hand at being an assassin." He shook the hair out of his face.
"I'm not interested in court ladies," he said thickly, and kissed her.
Sarah J. Maas
#10. Again - "Are you going home for Christmas?" - and asked it in some sort of way that brought tears to my eyes and made it almost unnecessary for him to move on to his answer to the question, which was that home, finally, is the manger in Bethlehem, the place where at midnight even the oxen kneel.
Frederick Buechner
#14. Lucy absently thanked him and at once began to consider which among her gowns would be best suited for a midnight adventure to a gothic castle.
David Liss
#15. Unto him who is able to keep us from falling, and lift us from the dark to the bright mountain of hope, from the midnight of desperation to the daybreak of joy, to him be power and authority for ever and ever.
Martin Luther
#16. Home after midnight from a debate on the wording of a minor municipal bylaw on bottle recycling, he felt like he was a pin in the hinge of power.
Annie Proulx
#17. Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.
Gregory David Roberts
#18. Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#19. It is always a high possibility to see lights after midnight in the house of a writer! That is the light of the love for words!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#20. Let's face it, all the good stuff happens after midnight.
Matt Groening
#21. I'm too nervous to eat before I go onstage, and I'll usually eat out after the performance or when I get home at midnight.
Jo Brand
#22. I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors
since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this
present twelve o'clock at midnight.
William Shakespeare
#23. My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?
Stephenie Meyer
#24. I must have been Cinderella. It was nice ... I was so happy ... I guess it's already midnight.
Kim Su-mi
#25. Their closeness wouldn't break, but it would bend and stretch into a new shape.
Cassandra Clare
#26. If God spent 180 million years making dinosaurs, what makes us think Man is so special, a tick of the clock before midnight?
Laurence Overmire
#27. In this life you will have some trials and tribulations. You cannot allow what happens to you to dictate who and what you become. Make a decision to do better and be better.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#28. It is at midnight, not midday, that stars shine the brightest.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#29. My dad was a telegraph operator for the Cotton Belt Railroad. He worked seven nights a week from 4 until midnight, no vacation.
Johnny Gimble
#30. Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil?
John Gay
#31. In the dark and the shadows where secrets lived, that was where Julian survived. It was how he had managed for years.
Cassandra Clare
#32. I only want the sky
to burn me more and more
burn me out
so that the sun begins at
6 in the morning
and goes past midnight
Charles Bukowski
#33. In 1986, I was attacked in the street as I helped Neil Mullarkey from the Comedy Store Players to put up posters. We were in the wrong place at the wrong time - midnight - and we were English. I got kicked in the head.
Paul Merton
#34. She's just a little faint," I reassured Mrs. Hammond. "They're blood typing in biology."
She nodded, understanding now. "There's always one."
I stifled a laugh. Trust Bella to be that one.
Stephenie Meyer
#35. The possibilities were as endless as the Midnight Creature Feature and I had zero leads on what was actually happening.
Dennis Liggio
#36. If I've learned anything from my past and my present, it's the power of fear. You can give your subjects all the generosity in the world, and still they will demand more. But those who are afraid don't fight back. I know this well enough.
Marie Lu
#37. I had been making a lot of family oriented movies, which I also like. But I still have a passion for the midnight audience and for midnight movies.
Nicolas Cage
#39. Goddess" he said. Her voice floated to us. Yes, Child." Will I see you again?"
Just her voice now, young and old at the same time. "In the face of every woman you meet
Laurell K. Hamilton
#40. She moved like a midnight storm. Whatever training she'd had in Wendlyn, whatever that prince had taught her ... Gods help them all.
Sarah J. Maas
#41. You see things nobody else sees. You can't talk about it because no one will understand, You have to keep secrets, and secrets - they break you apart. Cut you open. Make you vulnerable.
Cassandra Clare
#42. Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now.
Virginia Woolf
#43. Ha! What news here? Is the day out a' th' socket
That it is noon at midnight? The court up?
Thomas Middleton
#45. Robert Johnson invented the blues, at midnight, at a crossroads, after selling his soul to the devil. Dorothy Parker invented amusing women, at 2 p.m., in New York's best cocktail bar, after tipping a busboy 50 cents for a martini. It's hard not to draw conclusions as to which is the brighter sex.
Caitlin Moran
#46. Roland gave her a courtier's smile. "And what sort of work do you do for my uncle?
"
Dorian shifted on his feet and Chaol went very still, but Celaena returned Roland's smile and said, "I bury the king's opponents where nobody will ever find them.
Sarah J. Maas
#47. The night it falls
The stars shine through
The inky black
That is the cue
For plot demands
That dreams be sown
The fantasies
I have alone
The words come fast
They flow like wine
I am the midnight writer...
Virginia Alison
#48. Talent," she said, "is Gods gift to you. What you do with it, is your gift back to him." ... The Blue Edge of Midnight, pg. 3.
Jonathan King
#49. I dreamed about these moments, and I think I hoped I would have them, but you don't know. So when the lucky break hits, it's like being Cinderella and hopefully midnight doesn't come.
Katherine Heigl
#50. Julian wanted to laugh too. He wished he could. He wished he could forget the darkness that flickered at the edge of his vision. He wished he could close his eyes and fall, forgetting for one moment that there was no net stretched out below to catch him.
Cassandra Clare
#51. All of these are like sparks in the midnight sky, shedding their light on a world where even a flicker of hope shines like a beacon, illuminating the seas of darkness.
John A. Ashley
#52. Her last call, at midnight, had been the worst. "I'll pull your cock out of your asshole," she'd said, and for some reason her voice at that moment had reminded him of his mother's.
Bentley Little
#54. The pressures of life and influence of society have caused many to become something and someone they are not. Remove the layers. Dig through the dust and debris. Find the genuine jewel - YOU.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#56. The problem is people want help, but when help arrives you want to tell the help how to help you. Learn to RECEIVE help.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#57. My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for.
Salman Rushdie
#58. Sing me no songs of daylight,
For the sun is the enemy of lovers
Sing instead of shadows and darkness,
And memories of midnight
Sidney Sheldon
#59. She preferred coffee as hot and strong as a devil at midnight
Haruki Murakami
#60. A critter reveals his true self at midnight.
W.H. Beck
#61. In the words of a Zen poem, At dusk the cock announces dawn; At midnight, the bright sun.
Fritjof Capra
#62. They sat and he drew her into him. Their lips met, sparking an internal firework display. His soft exquisite lips pressed gently against hers. His kiss held the exact right balance between tenderness and a kind of passionate urgency.
Amanda Turner
#63. It was long after midnight and the stars looked damp and chilly; the air was full of the busy silence of the night, which is created by hundreds of small furry things treading very carefully in the hope of finding dinner while avoiding being the main course.
Terry Pratchett
#64. The light was luminescence and gloom, like the sky at midnight speckled with stars. All she could smell was the ocean...
Samantha Lee Churcher
#65. Knowledge is not enough. It never is. It's the capacity to do something with that knowledge. To do it perfectly. Absolute timing. With devastating consequences.
Steven Erikson
#66. He wanted to be a man she admired. The way he admired her. He wanted her to think of him as brave. He wanted to be better because of her, and for her.
He was better because of her. She'd changed him irrevocably.
Julie Anne Long
#67. There are problems and conditions of this world that man nor woman can solve; it requires His grace and mercy.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#68. i am someone who wants very much to be popular. I don't just want you to like me, I want to be one of the most joy-inducing human beings that you've ever encountered. I want to explode on your night sky like fireworks at midnight on New Year's Eve in Hong Kong.
Carrie Fisher
#69. Regardless of my age, such a trivial thing isn't important, it was upon that decision which my life hung.
Ross Turner
#70. Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe, even in sleep.
Adrienne Rich
#71. He can touch your soul. And there is a difference between having your heart break and having your soul shatter.
Cassandra Clare
#72. The day will come when we strike you down," she's saying. "Mark my words. We will haunt your nightmares."
I clench my fists and fling an illusion of pain across her body. "I am the nightmare.
Marie Lu
#73. No one can ever bring the morning back at midnight
Munia Khan
#74. Riding upon the back of a waterhorse - what mortal had ever stayed in such a seat for so long? On a horse made of cold currents and liquid convergences, jests and trickery - pressed against a hide like the burnished sea of midnight, thing look different to the rider.
Cecilia Dart-Thornton
#75. It wasn't my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor.
Ben Affleck
#76. But I can endure a surprising amount of midnight torment without being absent from class sharp at nine the next day. I suppose that marks me as something not quite up to the Byronic standard.
Robertson Davies
#77. There's always people looking the other way when the miracles take place, people who want only a good night's sleep when the stars are dancing, comets falling, the angels leaning low out of midnight with their trumpets, their cantatas of longing.
Paul Russell
#78. I'm not here to make friends. Our forces successfully conquered their northern territories regardless of their deals. And I will take the rest of Tamoura next.
Marie Lu
#79. All night sheetlightning quaked sourceless to the west beyond the midnight thunderheads, making a bluish day of the distant desert, the mountains on the sudden skyline stark and black and livid like a land of some other order out there whose true geology was not stone but fear.
Cormac McCarthy
#80. I worry because I care. Gods help me, I know I shouldn't, but I do. So I will always tell you to be careful, because I will always care what happens.
Sarah J. Maas
#81. It's not the lies that hurt people. It's the willingness of everyone else to believe them ...
Aiden, Upon the Midnight Clear by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#82. We both see the same world, but in a different way. Ty feels the same joy I do, the joy of creation. We feel all the same things, only the shapes of our feelings are different.
Cassandra Clare
#83. She was beginning to have that feeling that comes after midnight, of one's thoughts opening out, flowering, groping out loud for some new discovery, some new truth that is really as old as all the hundreds of years girls have been confiding to one another in the relaxing intimacy of the night.
Rona Jaffe
#84. I'm just an insomniac struggling for a night where I don't dream of you anymore.
Lone Alaskan Gypsy
#85. The music I was always attracted to and the shows I was really into like, you know, those weekend Don Kirshner shows, "Midnight Special," those shows, I remember watching those and the music was just on; it was the greatest radio stations.
Bobby Cannavale
#86. You just have to be classy at the end of the day. That doesn't mean you can't go with a midnight blue tux. And if you can find a deep red tux that looks classy and classic, I think you can pull it off.
Paul Feig
#87. As perhaps at midnight, when all boundaries are lost,
Virginia Woolf
#88. Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
Laurie Anderson
#89. Does the beef salute the butcher as it throbs to it's knees?
Clive Barker
#91. Walking away from her ... Now that was a whole different section of the bookstore.
-Markus, Dark Desires at Midnight
Jessica Lee
#92. You are the finest thing I've ever touched. I want to be careful with you.
Hunter, Deeper Than Midnight, Lara Adrian
Lara Adrian
#93. The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.
Willa Cather
#94. I grinned at him, feeling more enthusiastic about my plan now that he was on board. Rosalie was a pain, but I would always owe her one for choosing Emmett; no one had a better brother than mine.
Stephenie Meyer
#95. With cold hands he massaged her right foot, his fingertips digging into all the right places to make her groan.
"Feel good?" he asked.
"You can't imagine. You have until midnight to stop."
He chuckled. "Why midnight?"
"Because from then until daylight you can work on the other foot.
Carolyn Brown
#96. I don't know what it is but every time I see you I feel such a strong urge, to be near you, to protect you, to hold you in my arms and never let you go.
Luke Nero - The Witchlings-Midnight curse
Amanda Turner
#97. 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
#98. That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close to midnight.
Siri Hustvedt
#99. My mind was clear and penetrating at the time, for it was midnight, the hour at which I am most brave and most free.
Vera Caspary
#100. It had moved in the midnight waters of space like a pale sea leviathan; it had passed the ancient moon and thrown itself onward into one nothingness following another.
Ray Bradbury
