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Night Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
- The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands grow distant in…
- Be, in this immensity of night, the magic force at your sense’s crossroad...
- If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things, they will not abandon you; and the nights are…
- I am like a child who awakes At the light, so safe and secureFree from night's fears when dawn breaks, In Thee I am ever…
- This above all-ask yourself in the stillest hour of your night: must I write? Delve into yourself for a deep answer. And if this should…
- Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer.
- Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
- A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when…
- How I will cherish you then, you grief-torn nights! Had I only received you, inconsolable sisters, on more abject knees, only buried myself with more…
- You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world, for the fire makes a circle…
- You, God, who live next door-- If at times, through the long night, I trouble you with my urgent knocking-- this is why: I hear…
- In the night, I wish to speak with the angel to find out if she recognizes my eyes, if she will ask me: do you…
- weren’t you always distracted by expectation, as if every event announced a beloved? (Where can you find a place to keep her, with all the…
- Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you…
- God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly…
- I would like to sing someone to sleep, to sit beside someone and be there. I would like to rock you and sing softly and…
- A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But in you is the presence that will be, when all the…
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- 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