Nightly Quotes (page 2)

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• him
• world
• saying

Night came on, the lamps were lighted, the tables near him found occupants, and Paris began to wear that peculiar evening look of hers which seems to say, in the flare of windows and theatre-doors, and the muffled rumble of swift-rolling carriages, that this is no world for you unless you have your pockets lined and your scruples drugged. Henry James

• night
• black
• walking

Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress. Zora Neale Hurston

• eyes
• alone
• sleep

Night came, but unattended with repose. Alone she came, no sleep their eyes to close. Alone and black she came; no friendly stars arose. John Dryden

• wall
• feeling
• different

Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it you could brush against appalling things and feel roaming and prowling around a strange, mysterious horror. Guy de Maupassant

• night
• people
• imagination

Night favors belief, and the imagination peoples the air with specters. Jose Rizal

• lost
• night
• star

Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun. Stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spiraling round for terror, and holding each other in embrace, there in a darkness that outpassed them all, and left them tiny and daunted. So much, and himself, infinitesimal, at the core of nothingness, and yet not nothing. David Herbert Lawrence

• dream
• night
• telling

Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day. Carl Jung

• good
• fall
• night

Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil. Jean-Paul Sartre

• door
• fall
• dark

Night falls fast. Today is in the past. Blown from the dark hill hither to my door. Three flakes, then four. Arrive, then many more. Edna St. Vincent Millay

• mother
• night
• thoughts

Night is the mother of thoughts. John Florio

• mother
• night
• counsel

Night is the mother of counsels. George Herbert

• night
• wind
• cold

Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air. Patricia Cornwell

• light
• night
• lighted

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light. Joyce Carol Oates

• time
• best
• work

Night time really is the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone is asleep. Catherine O'Hara

• night
• than
• profane

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day. Henry David Thoreau