Midnight Quotes

427 Midnight quotes by 343 unique authors

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
I was a hip kid. When I saw Bambi it was the midnight show. — George Carlin
Few things in Avonlea ever escaped Mrs. Lynde. It was only that morning Anne had said, "If you went to your own room at midnight,… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
It's around midnight. After I left Dad, my choice was to either become very drunk or write this. I chose to write this. It felt… — Douglas Coupland
In that moment, the machinery of the world lined up. Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo's future seemed to fall perfectly into place. — Brian Selznick
At first we raced through space, like shadows and light; her rants, my raves; her dark hair, my blonde; black dresses, white. She's a purple-black… — Francesca Lia Block
I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us all… — Samuel Beckett
There is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day in gardens, and… — Charles Lamb
The talk of pale, burning-eyed students, anarchists and utopians all, over tea and cigarettes in a locked room long past midnight, is next morning translated,… — Christopher Isherwood
My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta. But the… — Alison Bechdel
My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was… — Stephenie Meyer

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343 authors contributed a total of 427 Midnight Quotes, led by these top contributors: