Top 100 Quotes About The Night
#2. We stand dead still and we listen to the night. The city drones. An owl hoots and a cat howls and a dog barks and a siren wails.
We let the stars shine into us.
David Almond
#3. Mr Ramsay, stumbling along a passage one dark morning, stretched his arms out, but Mrs Ramsay having died rather suddenly the night before, his arms, though stretched out, remained empty.
Virginia Woolf
#4. One of the roles of man is to shut his eyes and keep them shut to see if he can continue into the night of his old age the dream curtailed in the night of his youth.
Machado De Assis
#5. Stephanie Crawford even told me once she woke up in the middle of the night and found him looking in the window at her. I said what did you do, Stephanie, move over in the bed and make room for him? That shut her up for a while.
Harper Lee
#6. This was what she needed ... the quiet turning to the other in the middle of the night, the wordless meeting of lips, skin, breath. The trust, unfurling one pale petal at a time, that he would be there.
Eileen Wilks
#7. Depression must be avoided, no matter what the cost. Depression is lying on the Edwardian couch for six months, too tired to unlace your shoes. Depression is awakening each morning feeling as if someone near and dear and closely related died the night before. Bad news. Don't tempt depression.
Tim Sandlin
#8. In the sense of movement a boat is a living thing.
It is a companion in the night. Each boat has its own manner and character.
Travis McGee, 1985
John D. MacDonald
#9. There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man's courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was that hour only that he feared.
Albert Camus
#10. Full moon calls thee
Shai-hulud shall thou see;
Red the night, dusky sky,
Bloody death didst thou die.
We pray to a moon: she is round
Luck with us will then abound,
What we seek for shall be found
In the land of solid ground.
Frank Herbert
#11. Chapter Four : The things that go bump in the night ... are probably registered voters in Cook County
Chloe Neill
#12. For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter.
Charles Dickens
#13. One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed her and did not leave her until the night closed in catastrophe for she had no instinct for self-preservation if she was confronted by ambiguities.
Angela Carter
#14. She was Lilith, First Wife of Adam, Queen of the Night, Mother of Demons, Stealer of Children, and he was her Revenant - her undead warrior. And she would use him, and the power of his spear, to destroy her enemies and punish her wayward children.,
Alan Kinross
#15. A star-spangled sky and you were looking the other way,
the night beckoned and waited and you waited for the day.
Saleem Sharma
#16. Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.
Vicki Baum
#17. The moon rose, striking fire from the Cimmerian's horned helmet. No call awoke the echoes; yet suddenly the night grew tense and the jungle held its breath. Instinctively Conan loosened the great sword in its sheath.
Robert E. Howard
#18. I bet when Winston Churchill was writing his memoirs he didn't keep getting interrupted by two blokes bawling that the ties they took off the night before had mysteriously disappeared, and demanding I find them, seeing as I was the one last seen tied up with them.
Gillibran Brown
#19. It was a time of dark dreams. They washed in like flotsam on the night tide, slipping beneath doorways and window latches, rising through the streets and hills; and the little fishing-town of Scarlock foundered deep.
J.A. Clement
#20. The room blued into view, and I wondered where the night had gone.
Sylvia Plath
#22. He just wanted to get through his uninteresting day, so he could cross over into the night, and find his way to the red headed light that brightened the black sky.
Allie Burke
#23. It is impossible to read in America, except on a train, because of the telephone. Everyone has a telephone, and it rings all day and most of the night.
Bertrand Russell
#24. Reef lit a hemp-and-tobacco cigarette and reviewed his situation, while around him infectious melodies and rhythms went on refashioning the night.
Thomas Pynchon
#25. Making love to a Negro isn't frightening; sleeping with him is. Sleep is complete surrender. It's more than nude; it's naked. Anything can happen during the night, when reason sleeps.
Dany Laferriere
#26. Aiden already knew he should say his last prayers now. Lex was going to kill him. Slowly.
***
She was going to kill him. Slowly.
Lex sat on the sidelines watching the last game of the night. She hated sitting out, but she had to take her turn.
Camy Tang
#27. No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us.
Elie Wiesel
#28. I must be overtired', Buttercup managed. 'The excitement and all.'
'Rest then', her mother cautioned. 'Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed.
William Goldman
#29. In the middle of the night, if you have decided to do something good for the world, don't wait for the morning to come!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#30. These are the seductive voices of the night; the Sirens, too, sang that way. It would be doing them an injustice to think that they wanted to seduce; they knew they had claws and sterile wombs, and they lamented this aloud. They could not help it if their laments sounded so beautiful.
Franz Kafka
#31. At a party, I am the kind of girl who will wait until the end of the night before I really get going. I'm a little anti-social at first, but I'm not immune to dancing on tables either.
Emily VanCamp
#32. Welcome to finishing school, Gemma. Learn to embroider, serve tea, curtsy. Oh, and by the way, you might be demolished in the night by a hideous winged creature from the roof.
Libba Bray
#33. To Madeline,
This subtle second self
Sheaf of me
Can do more than you ever could.
Like you, it can leave
And go
Somewhere else.
The night splits me in two.
I disconnect
To sink, to fall, to fly
And rage
Forever
And always
Without you
Kelly Creagh
#34. Of course I went and got 'Breaking Dawn' at midnight the night it came out and read it instantly. I was like, 'Yes!'
Catherine Hardwicke
#35. The night life draws me in like a moth to a flame and not even fear could convince me to not walk amongst the giants that line the streets.
Z.L. Arkadie
#36. Metaphor for the night sky: a trillion asterisks and no explanations.
Robert Breault
#37. Full to the brim with hope and love and joy, she watched the little light bulb shining like a promise in the night.
Jeanne DuPrau
#38. I realize from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.
Mark Twain
#39. that happening to you in the middle of the night, then let's hear about it. The
Roald Dahl
#40. I like living on my own. I'm happy for a man to come over. I'll cook for him; he can spend the night occasionally, but then I want him to leave. I'm too independent.
Marie Helvin
#41. With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night.
Ernest Hemingway,
#42. Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser one to rule the night. He made stars also.
Genesis 1:16
Anonymous
#44. The night leaned in as somehow Ruby found a way to accept that kiss and, in so doing, dipped her big toe into life.
Cynthia Bond
#45. She holds you like a whore in the night, but she'll take your soul and not think twice.
Micheal Rivers
#46. Think she could have told us we were going to fight the NFL?"
"Would that have stopped you?"
"No"
"Me either."
The laughter between the two of us echoed into the night.
Katie McGarry
#47. But I hate socks.' I do, especially sleeping in them. They always come half-off in the middle of the night, and why? What kind of inferior clothing item falls off of you when you're lying still?
Francesca Serritella
#48. Morning would come before we knew it. It always did. But we still had the night, and for now, we were together, so I just closed my eyes and drank it all in.
Sarah Dessen
#49. Marry an outdoors woman. That way, if you have to throw her out into the yard for the night, she can still survive.
W.C. Fields
#50. With the few small spots of light like golden stars in the night, the sweet stale scent of incense, and the warm smell of the burning wax. And she at rest within her own star.
Sigrid Undset
#51. I discovered this myself when I was woken up in the middle of the night and chased sixteen miles by an angry mob armed with torches, swords, and vicious dogs,
Lemony Snicket
#52. Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.
Thomas Bernhard
#53. And you cycle throughout so that you do about five to six cycles throughout the night. And we spend more time in REM later on in the night than we do earlier on.
Shelby Harris
#55. We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.
Chief Seattle
#56. Pikey Thomas dreamed of plums and caramel apples the night the faery-with-the-peeling-face stole his right eye.
Stefan Bachmann
#57. The fans, the vampire groupies, love the idea of this androgynous, preternatural figure stalking the night, and craving aesthetic pleasure just as he craves blood, wearing only the best velvet clothes, and savoring red roses.
Anne Rice
#58. One does not leave so small and beautiful a female creature alone with ten heated men in the middle of the night.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#59. Discover the times when you're most creative - mornings, nights, afternoons - and clear the time to work then. Many writers find the mornings are best, and the afternoons are only good for editorial corrections, or getting the washing done. Others can only work through the night, drunk.
Deborah Moggach
#60. WINTER As the winter winds litter London with lonely hearts Oh the warmth in your eyes swept me into your arms Was it love or fear of the cold that led us through the night? For every kiss your beauty trumped my doubt Mumford & Sons ~Winter Winds
Raine Miller
#62. Tom Snyder was big enough to fill the night with talk and his own persona. The Snyder we saw on TV was not a replica of the real guy; it was the real guy.
Tom Shales
#63. "You need hedges.""Hedges," I said, bemused. "Yes, Edgar." He looked surprised and a little disappointed, as if I had failed to understand a very simple concept. "Hedges against the night."
Stephen King
#64. Remember, no matter how dark the night, there is always a happy ending. But first, you have to make it through the night.
L.J.Smith
#65. He would reach for me in the middle of the night, nearly every single night, wrapping one of those solid arms around my waist and pulling me in close. So. Close.
Chelsie Shakespeare
#66. Could've come like a mighty storm. With all the strength of a hurricane. You could've come like a forest fire with the power of Heaven in Your flame. But You came like a winter snow, quiet and soft and slow. Falling from the sky in the night to the earth below.
Chris Tomlin
#67. People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.
George Orwell
#68. I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.
Stephenie Meyer
#69. In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#71. This is my favorite time of day. When the sun is setting and the last of its fiery fingers caress the water line before relinquishing their hold to the darkness of the night. And I can watch as the stars pop out, one by one, to pinprick the sky with their silvery light.
J.A. Souders
#72. Words are so heavy, she thought, but as the night wore on, she was able to complete eleven pages
Markus Zusak
#73. In TV, you just have to decide the night before exactly how you're going to say it and stick with that. You can't kick it around; you haven't got time.
Kevin Whately
#74. He might be a vampire, hunter of the night and all-around badass, but a woman scorned was fucking scary.
Dana Marie Bell
#75. Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.
Rumi
#76. Nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as it did then ... We may be afflicted and unhappy, but no one can take from us the sweet delight which is nature's gift to those who love her and her poetry.
George Sand
#78. I never was so immensely tickled by anything I had ever said before. I actually woke up twice during the night, and laughed till the bed shook.
George Grossmith
#79. The Red Door was a part of me and being there was an escape right up until the doors closed. I didn't want it to be over. Not even just for the night. After
Jamie McGuire
#80. 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
#81. Every moment of the night
Forever changing places
And they put out the star-light
With the breath from their pale faces
Edgar Allan Poe
#82. 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
#83. The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.
Henry David Thoreau
#84. 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
#85. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity - distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless
Douglas Adams
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth.
Lauren Oliver
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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,
#99. 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
#100. The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
Tallulah Bankhead
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