Midnight Quotes

876. One houre's sleepe before midnight is worth three after. (George Herbert)
No more hard work than look beautiful with eight in the morning until midnight. View quote
Brigitte Bardot
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. View quote
John Wayne
What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow. View quote
Mary Shelley
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. View quote
Bill Vaughan
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. View quote
Og Mandino
Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind. View quote
Dean Koontz
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
The stars of midnight shall be dear To her and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. (William Wordsworth)
In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
In that moment, the machinery of the world lined up. Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo's future seemed to fall perfectly into place. View quote
Brian Selznick
I am not an early bird. I go to bed normally between midnight and 1 oclock, so it is understandable that I cannot be an early bird. I wake up around 9 oclock. View quote
Dieter Rams
Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight. View quote
Bob Geldof
I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night. View quote
Marguerite Young
Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!! View quote
Leonard Cohen
Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe! View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show. View quote
Alexander Pope
There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son. View quote
Aleister Crowley
It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight. (Robert E. Howard)
Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it only artists and poets, but even the most abstract thinkers that have drawn from this source. Lively activity we name fire; time is a stream that rolls on, sweeping all before it; eternity is a circle; a mystery is hid in midnight gloom, and truth dwells in the sun. Nay, I begin to believe that even the future destiny of the human race is prefigured in the dark oracular utterances of bodily creation. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.) View quote
Dorothy Parker
When the ghost comes round at midnight Well you both can have some fun He can drive you mad, he can make you sad He can keep you from the sun When they take him down, he'll be both safe and sound And the hand does fit the glove And no matter what they tell you, There's good and evil in everyone. View quote
Van Morrison