“Like searching at midnight in a dark cellar for a black cat that isn’t there.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Starman Jones
Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 11, “Through the Cargo Hatch” (p. 115)
“What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney?”
— Diane Setterfield, book The Thirteenth Tale
Source: The Thirteenth Tale
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“And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Source: The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717), Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Line 57.
“So in the midnight shadows of the grove did they two meet and draw nigh each other, awe-struck, like silent first or motionless cypresses, when the mad South wind hath not yet intertwined their boughs.”
Haud secus in mediis noctis nemoris que tenebris
inciderant ambo attoniti iuxtaque subibant
abietibus tacitis aut immotis cyparissis
adsimiles, rapidus nondum quas miscuit Auster.
Gaius Valerius Flaccus book Argonautica
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“Bear it aloft, O roaring flame!
Skyward aloft, where all may see.”
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) American anarchist writer and feminist
"Written-In-Red", last lines.
Context: Bear it aloft, O roaring flame!
Skyward aloft, where all may see.
Slaves of the World! Our cause is the same;
One is the immemorial shame;
One is the struggle, and in One name —
Manhood— we battle to set men free.
"Uncurse us the Land!" burn the words of the Dead,
Written-in-red.
