Midnight Quotes

427 Midnight quotes by 343 unique authors

And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came… — C.S. Lewis
The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his… — Virginia Woolf
Born of Black and White, Eaten with worms, I'm a Saint, a Sinner, a Siren of the Word, The Circle knows me, the rest just… — Ted Dekker
Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was… — Samuel Beckett
That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons… — Ray Bradbury
A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face, the tails… — Billy Collins
But first, on earth as vampire sent, Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent, Then ghastly haunt thy native place, And suck the blood… — Lord Byron
Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe,… — Adrienne Rich
He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Come on, it's almost midnight. Let's go watch them cut the cake. — Scott Westerfeld
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nobody likes a clown at midnight — Stephen King
I am Midnight (cats stare dumbfounded) — Erin Hunter
A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after. — Joanne Harris
When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we’ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight.… — Chuck Palahniuk
As we passed under a streetlamp I noticed, beside my own bobbing shadow, another great, leaping grotesquerie that had an uncanny suggestion of the frog… — Loren Eiseley
But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading… — Jack London
A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it tranquil to get/their hues right. Some/only open at midnight. — Kay Ryan
I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which we can roam… — Rebecca Solnit
Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled… — Soren Kierkegaard
I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with… — Walt Whitman
Liminal sucks. You can't grasp it with your hands and shape it. You can't make midnight come faster, or grow up sooner, or avoid the… — Karen Marie Moning
Beauty, midnight, vision dies: Let the winds of dawn that blow Softly round your dreaming head Such a day of welcome show Eye and knocking… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I wanted to hear what she was saying. I wanted to smell that burnt midnight again, I wanted to feel that wind. It was a… — Janet Fitch

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