Quote by Anthony Powell

“Existence is in a way so banal, you may as well try and make a kind of grandeur of it”

— Francis Bacon

“The banal perception - all the most profound perceptions are banal, at most one man finds a somewhat more original expression for it than…

— Victor Klemperer

“Fifteen minutes shy of two o’clock. The thick of the night. The zone of lost objectivity.”

— Robert Charles Wilson

“and I have always found, though I am unable to account for it, that daylight banishes many of the fears that are apt to…

— R.M. Ballantyne

“I passed the morning that knew no grief and at night bowed to the darkness that breathes. While in passing may seem brief, there…

— Dew Platt

“For it seemed (though why it seemed so, no one knew) that everything began on that night. And, once begun, it could not be…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Within a few moments the last of day became the first of night, a magic as peculiar and welcome as any other.”

— Gregory Maguire

“There was no grandeur here, no sublimity, only weariness and gloom.”

— Peter Ackroyd

“... wondering how it was that one person's absence could rob the day so wholly of its shape and meaning.”

— Kate Morton

“The night before, a whole day could have shape and design. But when it was upon you, it could vanish tragically to air.”

— Lorrie Moore

“Night does not show things, it suggests them. It disturbes and surprises us with its strangeness. It liberates forces within us which are dominated…

— Brassai

“That was one of the things about the night. Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn’t so much…

— Sarah Dessen