Night Quotes

He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid.

...before the dawn I leave the night behind meand before my heart I let you leave me behind.- from the poem 'Behind

The summer night was settling upon the neighborhood like a dark lace veil, casting dappled shadows on the roofs and sidewalks and lawns.

Above us, the constellations spun and the moon paced her weary course. We lay stricken and sleepless as the hours passed.

I went to the little window and inhaled the country air. One could hear the breathing of the night, feminine, enormous.("The Blue Bouquet")

Last night, lost in spaces between star—bays and lakes of clouds, I tossed and turned looking for you

I see you from afar—fragile and shy as a star gleaming through a cloudy rift

A single night is stuffed with minutes, but they leak out, one by one.

Trees don't sneak on you."-Brook Where Small Fish Swim

I went to the little window and inhaled the country air. One could hear the breathing of the night, feminine, enormous.

He's looking into the night, in case a shadow comes to listen and look.

So they went running together, silent, toward the vast wastes of snow where no living thing but they two moved under the stars of night.

Long miles of snow and mountains spun out behind him, and his hooves scattered stardust or snow crystals. He went bounding on and on, right on the spine of the world, thrust out against the night sky

...and I shut off my anxious heart and my nervous head as dusk descended into another night, another meaningless merging, another attempt to find myself as I gave myself away.

from the prose poem "The Universe Thrums on regardless" in my book SPAN.We are almost nothing in the night. Reduced to warm blobs and the sound of breathing. There is comfort in that.

Try to be a whole person. Not just a night person, or a day person. Be the kind of person who can live in both.

Oh, I don't wonder babies always cry when they wake up in the night. So often I want to do it too.

The peaceful splendour of the night healed again. The moon was now past the meridian and travelling down the west. It was at its full, and very bright, riding through the empty blue sky.

A calm night is open to all the truths.

It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night, " the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and lighting a cigarette. "You can't fight it.

Night is a world lit by itself

You know you love him when you can't sleep at night and get up early to talk to him the next morning.

The worst things always happen at night, and oftener than one would think on stormy nights. ("The Compensation House")

I can see lights in the distance trembling in the dark cloak of nightCandles and lanterns are dancing, dancing a waltz on All Souls Night.

Anyone and anything can survive the daylight. It's night that's the hardest to live.

... going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.

It was a good apple too. A good apple, picked by a madman on a full moon night.

Mystique saturates, gluts the air, Adventure’s even more than rare, Excitement’s everywhere to share, And Novelty’s beyond compare.

I hope I never figure out who broke your heart and if I do, if I do. I'd spend all night losing sleep. I'd spend the night and I'd lose my mind. Well I'd spend the night and I'd lose my mind.

If you choose to engage in one night stands, make sure you have a good reason and peer pressure is NOT one.

Sorry, one night stands don't stack up as credentials for tending bar.

Ambition had never troubled me, so I decided to begin by watching life at my leisure for a few years, waiting until I finally felt tempted to find some circle of influence for myself.

In the distance, mongrel dogs were howling out the coyote portion of their ancestry. All the sounds of the night seemed to pass through a hollow tunnel of indefinite length.

At that instant I became a blooming lotus flower. The water in which I flourished was a single teardrop from Nyx.

He wanted one night with her when he did not have to be on his guard waiting for the Douglases to discover that she was English and a lass

i witness the birth of the moon and her servants walking the night sky pulling us into their wake

The moon is your reminder that God is never-changing, and you can always depend on Him to hear your prayers.

It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night.

It’s the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him.

Remember: if you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget.

It’s nice to have a station pet. Wish it wasn’t trapped in a hovering prison in the men’s bathroom, but listen: no pet is perfect. It becomes perfect when you learn to accept it for what it is.

How many nights are we here?" Cassie asked. "Six? So we need what, 20 bottles?

...the religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky...

Lying is second nature and I do it very well. Titus Ray, Chapter 5

In that place things begin to wear away even as they are built

To be remembered is, I think, a basic human right. Not one that occurs to a person when it is there, but like a parched throat in the desert when it is gone.

To be remembered is, I think, a badic human right. Not one that occurs to a person when it is there, but like a parched throat in a desert when it is gone.

The Night has a thousand eyes The Day but one Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun.

Watchman what of the night?

Night when deep sleep falleth on men.