Quotes about the night
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“Augie: Does everybody else know?
T. C.: About my epitaph?
Augie: About me being gay, you gink-head hoser-face!
T. C. Not everybody. There's a night watchman at a Dunkin Donuts just outside of Detroit. He doesn't know yet.”

Steve Kluger (1952) American writer

Source: My Most Excellent Year

“I teleported home last night with Ron and Sid and Meg
Ron stole Meggy's heart away and I got Sidney's leg.”

Douglas Adams book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Home, Heart

“It is not mysterious to be home on a Saturday night, reading a novel in a pile of smelly golden retrievers.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Home, Reading

“I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

People, Housing

“Because it’s our duty to God to protect the rest of humanity from evil creatures of the night.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

God, Evil

“And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night… and what your dreams are like.”

Stephen King book Different Seasons

Source: Different Seasons

Dreams, Sleep

“All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22

Men, Star

“True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Wisdom

“She is more beautiful than I have words for. And last night, I was blessed beyond measure to serve her.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Awakened

Beauty

“I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

World, Feeling, Reading

“Let come the forces of night! We will stand!"
"We will get the hell out of here is what we will do," I muttered.”

Jim Butcher book Grave Peril

Source: Grave Peril

Hell

“It has an L on it. L for love. See? It's the key to the universe, Dad. You said you were looking for it. You told Mom you were. I found it for you so you don't have to look anymore. So you can come home at night.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

Love, Home, Moms, Universe

“When things go wrong and will not come right,
Though you do the best you can,
When life looks black as the hour of night,
A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.”

Flann O'Brien book At Swim-Two-Birds

Source: At Swim-Two-Birds

Life

“If I could just write it down in a piece of paper, then maybe she could get a decent night's sleep, eat a little of her dinner. Maybe she could have a minute's worth of peace.”

Wally Lamb book I Know This Much Is True

Source: I Know This Much Is True

Peace, Sleep

“The birds of night peck at the first stars
that flash like my soul when I love you.”

Pablo Neruda book Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Source: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Love, Soul, Star, Bird

“There's a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the night's.”

Ed Gorman (1941–2016) American writer

Source: Everybody's Somebody's Fool

Loneliness

“A day without the sun is like you know, night”

Joe R. Lansdale (1951) American novelist, short story writer, martial arts instructor

Sun

“It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Way, Perfection

“Those who cannot be aggressive are hunted down while they shiver and hide because the night is dark.”

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes book In the Forests of the Night

Source: In the Forests of the Night

“The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“You’re my wife, Eva. I don’t care if anyone else knows it or not, I know it. And I want to come home to you, have coffee in the morning with you, zip up the back of your dresses, and unzip them at night.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Entwined with You

Home, Coffee

“Jace whistled. "Raphael is really having an exceptionally bad night."
-Jace, pg.283-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Disease, Dogs, Home

“… know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.”

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist

Source: Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois

Faith, Star, Appearance, Sun

“It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn’t see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars.”

Anne Rice book Interview with the Vampire

Source: Interview with the Vampire

World, Star

“There are some nights when
sleep plays coy,
aloof and disdainful.
And all the wiles
that I employ to win
its service to my side
are useless as wounded pride,
and much more painful.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Pain, Sleep

“Any time I’m not shooting my mouth off to a clichéd, two-bit creature of the night like you, it’s because I’m up to something.”

Jim Butcher (1971) American author

Source: Many Bloody Returns

Time

“Think how you love me," she whispered. "I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Variant: I don't ask you to love me always like this but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight.
Source: Tender Is the Night

Love, Thinking, Personality

“Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in life that is truly worth knowing.”

Sonya Hartnett (1968) Australian writer

Source: The Ghost's Child

Love, Life

“I don't need a baby growing inside me for nine months. If I'm going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want to achieve that state the old-fashioned way: getting good and drunk the night before.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

Way, Feeling, Fashion, Baby

“Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“Does the road wind up-hill all the way?
Yes, to the very end.
Will the day's journey take the whole long day?
From morn to night, my friend.”

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet

Up-Hill http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/rossetti.uphill.html, st. 1 (1861).

Way

“I have to.
I've been fighting it all night. I'm going to lose. My battle is as futile as a woman feeling the first pangs of labor and deciding it's an inconvenient time to give birth. Nature wins out. It always does.”

Kelley Armstrong book Bitten

Source: Bitten

Feeling, Birth, Nature, Time

“It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Wizard Heir

Summer

“comparing what you see during an eclipse to the darkness at night is like comparing an ocean to a teardrop.”

Wendy Mass book Every Soul a Star

Source: Every Soul a Star

“Some nights I knew that if I slept I would die.”

Charles Bukowski book Hollywood

Source: Hollywood

“Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken....”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Quoted, This Side of Paradise (1920)

Love, God, War, Fear

“I would rather have had someone shoot me in the head with a nail gun, repeatedly, than have to watch the two of them cuddling on the couch together all night. --Conrad”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

“I must be overtired', Buttercup managed. 'The excitement and all.'
'Rest then', her mother cautioned. 'Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

“That's the question, isn't it?" you said one night. "Does death bring freedom, or is it the end of freedom?”

David Levithan book Every You, Every Me

Source: Every You, Every Me

Death, Question, Freedom

“I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Women, Men, Feeling

“It happened again this afternoon. Just the way it did that other night. We were talking--talking about how to protect her, actually--and then, suddenly, I looked at her and it was as if I'd found an entire universe in her eyes.”

Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist

Source: Awakening

Way, Universe

“I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a Greenwich Village café.”

Augusten Burroughs book Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

Cars, Thinking, Help

“I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night,
Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down
The dark descent, and up to reascend…”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

Source: Paradise Lost

“… and the night was comfortably warm as the soft filtered light continued to push the darkness into the shadows as they held each other and kissed and pushed each others darkness into the corner, believing in each others light, each others dream.”

Hubert Selby Jr. Requiem for a Dream

Source: Requiem for a Dream

Dreams, Kiss, Light

“Time moves in it special way in the middle of the night.”

Haruki Murakami book After Dark

Source: After Dark

Way, Time

“Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces.”

Scott Westerfeld book Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“And the nights, bigger than imagining: black and gusty and enormous, disordered and wild with stars.”

Donna Tartt book The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

Imagination, Star

“We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Source: Experiencing the Heart of Jesus: Knowing His Heart, Feeling His Love

Death, God, Fear, Beauty

“Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.”

Barbara Kingsolver (1955) American author, poet and essayist

Women

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”

Isabel Allende (1942) Chilean writer

“I
think that the
world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just
cats and
rain, rain and cats, very nice, good
night.”

Charles Bukowski book Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

World, Cats, Thinking

“It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

“My nights are flatulent and unquiet.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

“Write in the morning, revise in the afternoon, read at night, and spend the rest of your time exercising your diplomacy, stealth, and charm.”

Roberto Bolaño book The Savage Detectives

Source: The Savage Detectives

Exercises, Time, Reading

“It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.”

John Steinbeck book Cannery Row

Source: Cannery Row

Time

“Well, I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death."
He blinked. "There is a fine line between sarcasm and outright hostility, and you seem to have crossed it. What's up?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Death, Hate, Hostility

“It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky
like that, I wish I could write music”

Henning Mankell book Italian Shoes

Source: Italian Shoes

Music, Dead

“That's not a real answer.'
Says who?'
Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps you awake nights, questioning your very existence.'
Clowns.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Death, Fear, Failure, Question

“Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“My head was throbbing, and my hands were shaking, but I went down the ladder to my workroom - and started figuring out how to rip someone's heart out of his chest from fifty miles away.
Who says I never do anything fun on a Friday night?”

Jim Butcher book Storm Front

Source: Storm Front

Heart

“I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“Dear God, Tatiana prayed in bed that night, turning to the wall and pulling the white sheet and the thin brown blanket over herself. If You are there somewhere, please teach me how to hide what I never knew how to show.”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

God

“I opened my mouth and kissed you then, the first time all night, attacked you and surrendered completely, and let’s get out of here. I’m ready, I’m finished, let’s not break up, no, no. Take me home, my boyfriend, my love.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

Love, Home, Kiss, Time

“On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Books, Reading

“He found himself wanting to write poetry about how her blue eyes were like starlight and her hair like night, because "night" and "starlight" rhymed, but he had a feeling the poem wouldn't turn out that well…”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Feeling

“He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die.”

Ian McEwan book Amsterdam

Source: Amsterdam

Sleep

“You are one seriously testy Creature of the Night. (Amanda)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

“It just makes me wonder what subject you blame for talking to me every night.'
I'm still settling on an answer for that one. Probably Chemistry.
Jesus Christ. I can't believe I just wrote that.”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Sloppy Firsts

Christ

“Day and night I always dream with open eyes.”

José Martí (1853–1895) Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader

"I dream awake" ["Ismaelillo"]
As quoted in Great Hispanic-Americans (2005) by Nicolás Kanellos, Robert Rodriguez and Tamra Orr, p. 72

Dreams

“We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. Good night.”

J.B. Priestley An Inspector Calls

Source: An Inspector Calls

Men, Learning, Time

“The mind-is not the heart.
I may yet live, as I know others live,
To wish in vain to let go with the mind-
Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me
That I need learn to let go with the heart.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

Sleep, Learning, Heart

“I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wakeup letter.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“Amazing how he could make her feel. Safe in a vacant lot, warm in the middle of the night. Just being this close to him, being able to touch his thoughts and feel his presence, was comforting-and dizzying.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Dark Visions

Feeling

“I guess it started in London, the night our dad blew up the British museum.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

“Maple. Maypole
Catch and carry.
Ash and Ember.
Elderberry.
Woolen. Woman.
Moon at night.
Willow. Window.
Candlelight.
Fallow farrow.
Ash and oak.
Bide and borrow.
Chimney smoke.
Barrel. Barley.
Stone and stave.
Wind and water.
Misbehave.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Water

“It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

Love, Smile, Sleep

“I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe”

Brian Greene (1963) American physicist

Star, Sense, Universe

“You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“I'm coming back for you Calypso," he said to the night wind. "I swear on the river Styx.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

“When I dream, I dream of him. For several nights now he’s come to me, waving from a distant shore as if he’s been waiting patiently for me to arrive. He doesn’t utter a word, but his smile says everything: I’ve missed you.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

Smile, Dreams, Distant, Waiting

“Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

Sleep

“This was just one night, one chance to vary and see where it took me. The fireflies were probably already out: maybe it wasn’t just a season or a time but a whole world I’d forgotten. I’d never know until I stepped out into it. So I did.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

World, Chance, Time, Season

“The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby's birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night highway - most milestones of the human journey, good or bad, are foreshadowed by the sound of a ringing.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven

Life, Cars, Birth, Baby

“If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night”

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter

Dreams, Wine

“Babe, you've destroyed a car, burned down two buildings, stapled a guy's nuts, and you have sixteen stitches in your leg. Take a night off. Have a glass of wine, watch some television, and go to bed early."
-Ranger”

Janet Evanovich book Lean Mean Thirteen

Source: Lean Mean Thirteen

Cars, Guy, Wine

“in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night”

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) American poet

Source: Howl: Original Draft Facsimile

Dreams, Tear, Sea

“And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self.”

Jeff Lindsay book Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Secret, Music, Silence

“Into the dark night
Resignedly I go,
I am not so afraid of the dark night
As the friends I do not know,
I do not fear the night above
As I fear the friends below.”

Stevie Smith (1902–1971) poet, novelist, illustrator, performer

Source: Selected Poems

Fear

“Dying is a wild night and a new road.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

“We go about in the night and are consumed by fire.”
In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni

Guy Debord (1931–1994) French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker and founding member of the Situationist International (SI)

“In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering, "Is this all?”

Thomas Harris Red Dragon

Source: Red Dragon

Faith, Justice, Way, Nature

“For a long time that's all I could do, howl and scream and cry like the wild animal of the night that I'd become.”

Darren Shan book The Vampire's Assistant

Source: The Vampire's Assistant

Time, Animals, Cry

“To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted

“Let's face it: a date is a job-interview, that lasts all night. The only difference between a date and a job interview is: not many job-interviews is there a chance you'll end up naked at the end of it.”

Jerry Seinfeld (1954) American comedian and actor

I'm Telling You for the Last Time (1998)
Context: What is a date, really, but a job interview that lasts all night? The only difference is there aren't many job interviews where there's a chance you'll end up naked at the end of it. "Well, Bill, the boss thinks you're the right man for the job; why don't you strip down and meet some of the people you'll be working with?"

Chance

“By the time they got to Denholm Street, day had been beaten back and the night was soaking through the city.”

Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant

Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

Time

“I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.”

Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990) British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer

Source: Bitter Lemons of Cyprus

Time, Loneliness

“She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.”

George Gordon Byron book Hebrew Melodies

She Walks in Beauty http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-SWB42.htm, st. 1. The subject of these lines was Mrs. R. Wilmot.—Berry Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 7. <br class="br">Hebrew Melodies (1815)

Beauty, Light

“Because you may think a bed is a peaceful thing, Sir, and to you it may mean rest and comfort and a good night's sleep. But it isn't so for everyone; and there are many dangerous things that may take place in a bed.”

Margaret Atwood book Alias Grace

Source: Alias Grace

Peace, Thinking, Sleep

“Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were.
It hasn’t happened this morning, either.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

Way, Thinking, Housing

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