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Night Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up her drawers and…
- Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid out in alarms…
- This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage was like, because…
- I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau…
- Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording—all this…
- Piece by piece, I fed my wardrobe to the night wind, and flutteringly, like a loved one’s ashes, the gray scraps were ferried off, to…
- From the night Buddy Willard kissed me and said I must go out with a lot of boys, he made me feel I was much…
- I opened the door and blinked out into the bright hall. I had the impression it wasn't night and it wasn't day, but some lurid…
- The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars Letting in the light, peephole after peephole--- A…
- I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
- It was sometime in October; she had long ago lost track of all the days and it really didn’t matter because one was like another…
- So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my loneliness, in the…
- I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I…
- I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had…
- And so I rehabilitate myself - staying up late this Friday night in spite of vowing to go to bed early, because it is more…
More Night Quotes
- I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches. — Fred Armisen
- 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