Midnight Quotes - page 2

The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight; she may pass through her fiery furnace, but Christ is in the midst of the flame with her. (Charles Spurgeon)
Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed. View quote
Thomas Gray
Whence thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil? View quote
John Gay
How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements. View quote
Lin Yutang
The rainy Pleiads wester, Orion plunges prone, The stroke of midnight ceases, And I lie down alone. View quote
A. E. Housman
But most, thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlot's curse Blasts the new born Infant's tear, And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse. View quote
William Blake
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The stag at eve had drunk his fill, Where danced the moon on Monams rill, And deep his midnight lair had made In lone Glenartneys hazel shade. View quote
Walter Scott
Hence, loathèd Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy. View quote
John Milton
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers. (Walt Whitman)
So let me be thy choir, and make a moan Upon the midnight hours. View quote
John Keats
I walked until midnight in the storm, then I went home and took a sauna for an hour and a half. It was all clear. I listened to my heart and saw if there were any signs of my destiny in the sky, and there were none - there were just snowflakes. View quote
Pierre Trudeau
"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said. View quote
Franz Kafka
No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best. View quote
Robert McKee
Come on, it's almost midnight. Let's go watch them cut the cake. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me. View quote
Susanna Clarke
Basic SEAL training is six months of long, torturous runs in the soft sand, midnight swims in the cold water off San Diego, obstacles courses, unending calisthenics, days without sleep and always being cold, wet and miserable. View quote
William H. McRaven
No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets. View quote
Holly Black
There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate. View quote
Shannon Hale
Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare. (Gregory David Roberts)
What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? View quote
Diane Setterfield
I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight. View quote
Lisa Gardner
I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were. View quote
Berkeley Breathed
A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after. View quote
Joanne Harris