Quotes on night
It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.
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Victor Hugo Quotes
What I take from my nights, I add to my days.
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Leon de Rotrou Quotes
No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.
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Llewelyn Powys Quotes
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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Somerset Maugham Quotes
We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quotes
It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.
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Lemony Snicket Quotes
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.
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Henry Beston Quotes
Channels are blocked in the mind, from the day. Lie down in blackness of night, forgotten remnants rush to the mind, or creeping slowly appear in the dreams.
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Nathaniel LeTonnerre Quotes
Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.
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J.K. Rowling Quotes
In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.
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Mark Twain Quotes
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
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George Carlin Quotes
Night is the blotting paper for many sorrows.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.
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Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
How long the night seems to one kept awake by pain.
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Bernard Joseph Saurin Quotes
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
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Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
Since the coming of air pollution and city lights, the stars have become much more shy than they used to be.
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Pepper Giardino Quotes
There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.
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N.P. Willis Quotes
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.
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Catherine O'Hara Quotes
For the night shows stars and women in a better light.
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George Gordon Byron Quotes
For the happiest life, rigorously plan your days, leave your nights open to chance.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Moonlight is sculpture.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
By night, an atheist half believes in God.
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Edward Young Quotes
Night is a world lit by itself.
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Antonio Porchia Quotes