Night Quotes - page 6

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything. (Herb Caen)
Gradually the magic of the island settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. Each day had a tranquillity, a timelessness, about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of night would peel off and there would be a fresh day waiting for us, glossy and colourful as a child's transfer and with the same tinge of unreality. View quote
Gerald Durrell
There was always something new to be seen in the unchanging night sky. View quote
Fritz Leiber
There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea. View quote
Gary Snyder
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. View quote
Henry Rollins
How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die. View quote
Thomas Cole
The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive. View quote
W. C. Fields
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. View quote
Alan Watts
The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above. (Paul Bowles)
I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day. View quote
Brigitte Bardot
Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed. View quote
William Butler Yeats
The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole. View quote
William Butler Yeats
A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades. View quote
Boris Pasternak
Tiger Tiger burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry. View quote
William Blake
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white. View quote
William Blake
O Rose, thou art sick The invisible worm, That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. View quote
William Blake
Like a fiend in a cloud, With howling woe After night I do crowd And with night will go I turn my back to the east, From whence comforts have increased For light cloth seize my brain With frantic pain. View quote
William Blake
Sleep, sleep, beauty bright, Dreaming in the joys of night Sleep, sleep in thy sleep Little sorrows sit and weep. (William Blake)
The Moon like a flower In heaven's high bower, With silent delight, Sits and smiles on the night. View quote
William Blake
God appears, and God is Light,To those poor souls who dwell in Night,But does a human form displayTo those who dwell in realms of day. View quote
William Blake
Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me. View quote
H. G. Wells