In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.

“Now you are thinking like a thief. Fewer guns and more exits. We'll cure your cowboy ways yet. (Vidocq)”

— Richard Kadrey

And happiness will come like a thief in the night and steal all the pain away

— Ash&Shadow

“It feels like a thief in slow motion, stealing the man I knew one memory at a time.”

— Daniel Ruczko

“[S]he stepped out into the yard, like a thief in reverse: breaking and exiting. Stealing herself.”

— Sarah Cross

You started like a saint and now you've finished like a thief

— Stephen Kellogg

I creep like a thief, no doubt the man's swift, I'm more magnificent than Lee Van Cleef

— Diamond D

“This time, he fumbled for Collin's hand in the elevator. He still felt like a thief, there was no denying it, but sometimes thieves…

— Amy Lane

I felt like a thief with a bagful of stolen glances.

— Jeanette Winterson

“Love is like a thief, it robs you of all thought and logic, and all you have left is a heart that you can…

— Karina Halle

They say death comes like a thief in the night, where is he? I'll hug his neck.

— Cormac McCarthy

Come like a Horse, Sit like a Thief, And Go like a King… This Slogan was written on a.. Public Toilet Door.

— Pacifiersucker

“Nobody is fully ready for paradise. That is why 'the kingdom come' will be like thief in the night.”

— Toba Beta

“Like a thing is a thing. Someone like a thief is a thief. Someone like a cut-up is a cut-up. And somebody like a…

— Tadzio Koelb

Live life so completely that when death comes to you like a thief in the night, there will be nothing left for him to…

— Anonymous

Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.

— Christopher Pike