Night Quotes - page 17

Prometheus, I have no Titan's might, Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart, For daytime's vulture talons tear apart The tender alcoves built by love at night. (Philip José Farmer)
I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning, you make up some of your most absurd jokes. View quote
Joss Whedon
Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you're right, and everyone else is evil. View quote
Laurell K. Hamilton
If we have nothing to do but service our own pleasure – because society has taught us that's all we're worth and we're exiled from positions of authority from which we could actually shape society – then we just become hedonists. Eventually, despite how great it may look on Saturday night, come Monday morning there's just purposelessness. View quote
Clive Barker
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up. View quote
Charles M. Schulz
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.' View quote
Charles M. Schulz
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe- Sailed on a river of crystal light, Into a sea of dew. View quote
Eugene Field
If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon. View quote
Galileo Galilei
A damsel is a genius in the daytime and a beauty at night. View quote
Oscar Wilde
She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman. View quote
Oscar Wilde
September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old stuff. The conflicts we now face or fear involve opposed geographical arenas, but also opposed centuries or even millennia. It is a landscape of ferocious anachronisms: nuclear jihad in the Indian subcontinent; the medieval agonism of Islam; the Bronze Age blunderings of the Middle East. (Martin Amis)
As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up - many people feel small, because they're small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Due to attachment, anger, and foolishness, I have committed numberless mistakes in speech, deed and thought. I bow my head and repent. I vow from today to begin anew, to live day and night in mindfulness, and not to repeat my previous mistakes. View quote
Nhat Hanh
I go to bed angry every night, and I get up angrier every morning. View quote
Harlan Ellison
Here, in the bare dark face of night A calm unhurried eye draws sight -We see in what we think we fear The cloudings of our thought made clear. View quote
Iain Banks
The first thought that occurred to me, that night when I heard the chairman of the jury announce my name, was, Just think how many people hate me at this moment. Naturally, I wanted to annoy those people even further by being arrogant. View quote
John Banville
Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others. View quote
Marianne Williamson
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night! View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. View quote
Harry Dean Stanton
Understanding is always in some sense retrospective, which is what Hegel meant by remarking that the owl of Minerva flies only at night. (Terry Eagleton)
He passed the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphire-blaze, Where angels tremble, while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night. View quote
Thomas Gray
From toil he wins his spirits light, From busy day the peaceful night; Rich, from the very want of wealth, In heaven's best treasures, peace and health. View quote
Thomas Gray
Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night... Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees. View quote
Anthony Trollope
Were I laid on Greenland's Coast, And in my Arms embrac'd my Lass; Warm amidst eternal Frost, Too soon the Half Year's Night would pass. View quote
John Gay