Nights Quotes
1089 Nights quotes by 801 unique authors
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you fly until you crash two days two nights no sleep, no food, come down off the monster YOU CRASH REAL HARD
— Ellen Hopkins
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My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in my father's shed…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours…
— Amy Hempel
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Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things that lay about…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to get…
— Cormac McCarthy
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You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way…
— Giovanni Boccaccio
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My mind swirled with memories of the life I had led. The constant struggle to keep up appearances, the pretenses, the smiles that had been…
— Anchee Min
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When I dream, I dream of him. For several nights now he’s come to me, waving from a distant shore as if he’s been waiting…
— Libba Bray
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When you live with a woman you learn something every day. So far I have learned that long hair will clog up the shower drain…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.
— William Shakespeare
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It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I…
— Anthony Burgess
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Each night, Liesel would step outside, wipe the door, and watch the sky. Usually it was like spillage - cold and heavy, slippery and gray…
— Markus Zusak
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When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This…
— Stephen King
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Some nights stay up till dawn, as the moon sometimes does for the sun. Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way of a…
— Unknown Author
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You are a white. The Imperial Wizard. Now, if you don't think this is logic you can burn me on the fiery cross. This is…
— Lenny Bruce
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I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything.…
— Stephen King
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It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was…
— Anne Rice
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He liked cheap women, fast cars, late nights, and hard liquor, especially all together. In Jack's view, you are obliged to sin on Saturday night…
— Lisa Kleypas
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What will happen when my heart stops beating?" Momo asked. When that moment comes," said the professor, "time will stop for you as well. Or…
— Michael Ende
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This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt…
— John Keats
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The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer hardens into the frozen glitter of diamonds. I shall…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath his skin, flesh I have kissed, stroked with my fingertips, pressed my belly and breasts against, some…
— Dorianne Laux
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The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved…
— Jack Kerouac
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What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to…
— Jeanette Winterson
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