Quotes About Night

#1. If I'd had any level of success last night, then I could justify my actions; as it was, I couldn't even fake being proud.

Kiera Cass

#2. I have trouble sleeping, at the end of the night. There's a lot of stimulus and my brain is processing a lot of different arcs and personalities. I'm always processing things, so I don't sleep.

Tatiana Maslany

#3. The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. Teach the ignorant as much as you possibly can: society is culpable for not giving instruction gratis, and is responsible for the night it produces. This soul s full of darkness, and sin is committed, but the guilt person is not the man who commits the sin, but he who produces the darkness.

Victor Hugo

#5. Suddenly,I want to hold the whole night close to my chest and I decide it is mine alone

Megan Abbott

#6. At night I count
not the stars
but the dark.

Kevin Young

#7. Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

#8. There was a succession of roommates, never chosen with her input and all with cognitive impairments. Some were quiet. One kept her up at night. She felt incarcerated, like she was in prison for being old. The

Atul Gawande

#9. No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.

W.H. Davies

#10. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity - distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless

Douglas Adams

#11. Late at night I go out and listen to the wind. That's all the wisdom I need. I mean, I love books, but shoot, most of the world's wisdom is not contained in books.

Sherman Alexie

#12. My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so our house always smelled like oil paint. At night, she wrote after she'd put my sisters and me to bed, and the sound of her typing was our lullaby.

Luanne Rice

#13. Ah, Sofia, darlin'! On my best days, I believe in Him with all my heart."
"And on your worst days?" she had asked that night.
"Even if it's only poetry, it's poetry to live by, Sofia
poetry to die for ...

Mary Doria Russell

#14. Bob summed it up best when he was on his knees at the end of the night saying, 'Don't trust in Guided By Voices.' You were there; was the show awful or something? I know it was sloppy, but they're not really that tight anyway, but was it embarrassing, was it sad?

Kim Deal

#15. Long before they had ever met, I think this destiny awaited them. They were not like ships passing in the night. It wasn't like they didn't understand each other. They understood each other better than anyone else, and each was focused solely on the other.

Gen Urobuchi

#16. I did not lie awake at night worrying about the problems of Negroes.

Robert F. Kennedy

#17. While Michael Angelo's Sistine roof,
His "Morning" and his "Night" disclose
How sinew that has been pulled tight,
Or it may be loosened in repose,
Can rule by supernatural right
Yet be but sinew.

William Butler Yeats

#18. Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth.

Lauren Oliver

#19. Generally for red carpet, I love to relax first. I love to work out. I love to eat well, drink tons of water beforehand, so on the night of the red carpet I feel good and ready to go. I also love to get a good body scrub.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

#20. Said. "I'm just not ready yet." It would take something other than my daily nagging. So one night, a night I knew would be

Elizabeth McCracken

#21. life is too short to be stuck in a job you hate. Choose a career that makes you excited to wake up in the morning, energized through the day, and content when you fall asleep at night.

Joshua Dorkin

#22. Torches just blind you. On a clear night like this, the moon and the stars are enough.

George R R Martin

#23. I sleep for about four hours a night, or day really. I go to bed at, like, 9 A.M., sleep for four hours, then get up and start the day again. I don't mind if that's not healthy.

Taylor Momsen

#24. Last night I dreamed of Peace.

Dang Thuy Tram

#25. No," said the demon. "A witch is just a girl who knows her mind. I am better than a witch. But look at the great orgy coming up like a rose around me. No night in Hell could be as bright.

Catherynne M Valente

#26. I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.

Barbara Kingsolver

#27. I follow up the quest despite of day and night and death and hell.

Alfred Tennyson

#28. To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.

Grace Paley

#29. I fell asleep that night in the arms of a killer. I'd never slept better.

T.M. Frazier

#30. And, when night
Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons
Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

John Milton

#31. Condemned to death, the Delawares spent the night praying and singing hymns. In the morning, Williamson's men marched over ninety people in pairs into two houses and methodically slaughtered them.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

#32. You all have learned reliance
On the sacred teachings of Science,
So I hope, through life, you will never decline
In spite of philistine Defiance
To do what all good scientists do.
Experiment.
Make it your motto day and night.
Experiment.
And it will lead you to the light.

Cole Porter

#33. Thank you Lord. Another night has passed ... and I didn't.

L.F.Young

#34. Let us think, let us love
Just for a day, just for a night
Let us find peace and happiness
Deep in our heart with spiritual light.

Debasish Mridha

#35. It was like I woke up when he was born. It was like he had nothing to do with that night.

Liane Moriarty

#36. When a child is young," Burck explained one night (perhaps he was relating Hauber's analogy), "you can catch him if he falls. Then he

Blake Bailey

#37. I'm very comfortable with horses. I love horses and I have grown up around farm-hands. There's something very universal about anyone who's on horseback night and day. When you get off that horse, you are still walking as if there's still a horse between your legs.

Heath Ledger

#38. They were dancing around the fountain, arm in arm, in an old Dutch dance, their cheeks touching, their hands entwined. They had no music; they hummed. And there was no reason for them to be dancing that Peter Lake could see, except that it was an exceptionally beautiful night.

Mark Helprin

#39. Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness ...

Guillermo Del Toro

#40. If I were in a different body, this would be the time I would lean down and kiss her. If I were in a different body, that kiss could transform the night from off to on. If I were in a different body, she would see me inside. She would see what she wanted to see.
But now it's awkward.

David Levithan

#41. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void ...

William Gibson

#42. savor
with me
the lushness
of a lingering sleep...
and last night's
dream.

Sanober Khan

#43. Those who drink whiskey with the owls at night, cannot soar with the eagles the next day.

Brian D. Ratty

#44. From a bud of the evening a flower opens its petal in the dawn. The world sees the bud of the last night smiling with nectar on its lips. No one observed the diligence that was needed for the opening of each petal.

Pratibha Ray

#45. You can't all of a sudden go to sleep one night and wake up Martha Stewart. It's bit by bit by bit.

Jen Lancaster

#46. I save everything up until Sunday night because if I start sending emails on Saturday afternoon, then people have to start responding to me on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning.

Dave Goldberg

#47. The night before, a whole day could have shape and design. But when it was upon you, it could vanish tragically to air.

Lorrie Moore

#48. Human courage is an opiate but opiates are human too. If God is an opiate so am I. Therefore eat me. Eat the night,

Jack Kerouac

#49. I have jokes I've told before and will tell again, but my favorite part of the night is talking to the crowd.

Paula Poundstone

#50. I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.

Illeana Douglas

#51. I died last night. Seventy years too young.

Colin Thompson

#52. Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?

Edward Abbey

#53. Bombs on my backpack lunchbox full of fivestar crackers pockets loaded with rockets im gonna spit fireworks explosive rhymes connected like judas belt here comes my ride a mother rocket fly so high reach and bursts into the night sky

Patrick Cruz

#54. She'd find a way.
She'd be brave and noble, and she'd find a way.
But she wasn't. Eleanor wasn't any of those things. She was just trying to get through the night.

Rainbow Rowell

#55. Somebody bought me a Snuggie as a joke gift. Haha, the joke's on you, I enjoy it. I toss and turn at night, finally a blanket that's like, 'I'm going to keep you warm.' It's like having a small child with polio keep you in a full nelson - the perfect pressure.

Daniel Tosh

#56. Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear
Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair;
A messenger of Hope comes every night to me,
And offers for short life, eternal liberty.

Emily Bronte

#57. He is clearly bookish. I did not follow a single word of their conversation at dinner last night, not one jot of it. He must be bookish.

Gail Carriger

#58. There was a time I wouldn't fly to California if I had to spend the night. Can you believe it? I would not fly to California, the phrase was, 'if the sun has to set on me.' I just had prejudices against it.

John Cullum

#59. My goal is to be at the top of my game every night.

Jason Spezza

#60. My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha'am's essays.

Noam Chomsky

#61. But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.

Ernest Hemingway,

#62. To stutter through it with you or even stop stuttering and say nothing, was so lucky and soft, better talk than mile-a-minute with anyone. After a few minutes we'd stop rattling, we'd adjust, we'd settle in, and the conversation would speed into the night.

Daniel Handler

#63. I don't like coming over here at night, the girl said. The bayou is scary in the dark, all manner of things running wild out there.

Samuel Snoek-Brown

#64. I had dinner with my father last night, and made a classic Freudian slip. I meant to say, "Please pass the salt," but it came out, "You prick, you ruined my childhood.

Jonathan Ned Katz

#65. Costumes are fun. Dress up like a pilot some night and watch as people stare!

Tim Heidecker

#66. Every night there is something to ruminate on. The vagrant mind knows no boundaries. It leaps

Anita Nair

#67. How far have we come in man's long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light - a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#68. What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.

Cormac McCarthy

#69. I walked along the shore in the morning light, the winds have slept in the arms of dawn after crying all night.

Ipsit Bibhudarshi

#70. The longest day must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#71. You called him a big dumb dodo?" Caroline asked later that night as the two of them sat on Jane's couch watching the gas fireplace lick the fake logs. "Why didn't you go for broke and call him a poo-poo head too?

Rachel Gibson

#72. I think there's this idea that lipstick is something quite old or something you'd only wear at night.

Emma Watson

#73. I didn't even know I was lost until you found me.I didn't know what alone was until the first night I spent without you in my bed. You're the one thing I've got right. You've what I've been waiting for, Pigeon.

Jamie McGuire

#74. There is a guy on my block who lives for rock, he plays records day and night, and when he feels down he puts the rock and roll on and it makes him feel alright.

Ray Davies

#75. Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an instrument of annihilating egoism.

Paul Brunton

#76. The stars, he said, were actually souls, all the souls that were too restless to be locked up in heaven. They were so restless that God let them stay outside at night to play.

R.J. Keller

#77. You know what the opposite of 'rise and shine' is Bridge? 'Good night, and good luck.

Anna Quindlen

#78. All through the night, she battled herself. Or battled to know herself. She fell apart and then put herself back together and then she fell apart again and put herself back together, over and over.

Nnedi Okorafor

#79. The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

Tallulah Bankhead

#80. A certain pride, a certain awe, withheld him from offering to God even one prayer at night, though he knew it was in God's power to take away his life while he slept and hurl his soul hellward ere he could beg for mercy.

James Joyce

#81. Think about for a minute what your body goes through out there. On a Friday night, you have a steak and then Saturday morning, you get up and have some eggs and some pancakes. Then Sunday, you're on 'Survivor' and suddenly you have nothing.

Jeff Probst

#82. 1:1 Blessed is the man [1] who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; 2 but his delight is in the law [2] of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.

Anonymous

#83. When you kill do you also conjoin somehow? In some horrible communion you will never shake? Is that why soldiers come home and scream at night and kill themselves? Because they have become their targets?

Peter Heller

#84. Most people who have a problem concentrate on the problem. They take it to bed with them and stay awake all night thinking it over. Let go of that problem. Rise above it in consciousness.

Emmet Fox

#85. He made his play for you last night, shoulda known, you on the scene, you'd catch his eye. I heard. I lost it. Was pissed at him, took it out on you. Babe, I get pissed, I do it a lot, that'll happen.

Kristen Ashley

#86. Increasingly, Sawtooth's own memories are a loud bright muddle, like opening the door on a party full of strangers. He lies awake at night, limping down the long corridors of his memory, trying to find the girl's hands, ...

Karen Russell

#87. The summer of the gypsy moths when all the trees in their yard were bare, the leaves chewed by caterpillars. You could hear crunching in the night. You could see silvery cocoon webbing in porch rafter and strung across stop signs.

Alice Hoffman

#88. On the night that I was born, my paternal grandfather, Josef Tock, made ten predictions that shaped my life. Then he died in the very minute that my mother gave birth to me.

Dean Koontz

#89. Do your dreams find their way from your sub-conscious self, the part of your brain that's busy while you sleep, to your conscious self? From your night self to your day self? That's the question." She met William's eyes and held on. "Do you know what you want?

Dennis Vickers

#90. All of us are taking the night off," Wrath said abruptly. "We need some regroup time."
Rhage snorted from across the table. "You're not going to make us play Monopoly again, are you?"
Yup." A collective groan rose up from the Brotherhood, one that Wrath ignored. "Right after dinner.

J.R. Ward

#91. That you can know what i have in me and still want me as much as i want you. i go to sleep every night afraid i'll wake up and you'll be gone.or that i scared you away ... that i dreamed you-" "no. Gideon." jesus he broke my heart every day. shattered me.

Sylvia Day

#92. I'm going to check on you in the night," he said. "At random intervals of my choosing."
"I figured.

Sara Zarr

#93. 3) Saturday night is the official meeting night of Penny Lane's Lonely Hearts Club. Attendance is mandatory. Exceptions are for family emergencies and bad hair days only.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#94. And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.

Chuck Palahniuk

#95. And we, from within the sigh of the trees, and the soft moss underfoot, and the calling of night birds, watched him as he watched, gazing where he should not.

Emmanuelle De Maupassant

#96. I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.

Jodie Foster

#97. 4Sing the praises of the LORD, you his faithful people; praise his holy name. 5For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.

Anonymous

#98. Fancy makes me shudder to-night, when all is so black and solemn - " "Let us shudder too. We may know what it is." "It will seem nothing to you.

Charles Dickens

#99. It's already long past midnight, but she won't sleep or stop until it's done, because the air is always thicker with magic, faith and possibility at night.

Menna Van Praag

#100. It's more important to look good than to feel good.
Billy Crystal on Saturday Night Live

Billy Crystal