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Night Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing…. I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object,…
- We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can…
- I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I…
- Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you…
- Because you may think a bed is a peaceful thing, Sir, and to you it may mean rest and comfort and a good night's sleep.…
- What breaks in daybreak? Is it the night? Is it the sun, cracked in two by the horizon like an egg, spilling out light?
- Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back…
- That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at…
- All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable…
More Night Quotes
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- I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker. — Darren Aronofsky
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on… — Paul Auster
- What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the… — Paul Auster
- Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky,… — Sai Baba
- I do Skid Row every night. — Sebastian Bach
- The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not… — Gaston Bachelard
- A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. — Honore de Balzac
- Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the… — Honore de Balzac
- Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself and the… — Antonio Banderas