Nights Quotes

1089 Nights quotes by 801 unique authors

She wondered: How could people respond to these images if images didn't secretly enjoy the same status as real things? Not that images were so… — Jonathan Franzen
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… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintace. I don't mind if you… — Raymond Chandler
That's not a real answer.' Says who?' Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps… — Sarah Dessen
Oh,to be walking through Leningrad white night after white night, the dawn to dusk all smelting together like platinum ore, Tatiana thought, turning away to… — Paullina Simons
Possibly the only good to come out of these nightmares was that it brought Hans Hubermann, her new papa, into the room, to soothe her,… — Markus Zusak
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
My father had put these things on the table. I looked at him standing by the sink. He was washing his hands, splashing water on… — Jennifer Donnelly
I held the feeling in my heart; the urge to discuss it died out. There was all the time in the world. In the endless… — Banana Yoshimoto
Nights were the worst. I'd try to get some sleep, only to be thrown out of bed and dragged out into the compound for another… — D. J. MacHale
I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy's… — C.S. Lewis
Don’t you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you’ve made, every hurt you’ve received, every bit of meanness you’ve dealt… — Charlaine Harris
Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil. — Cornelia Funke
Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling and uncoiling in… — Clark Ashton Smith
You have grudged the very fire in your house because the wood cost overmuch!" he cried. "You have grudged life. To live cost overmuch, and… — Jack London
My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone. — Leonard Cohen
I used to have a cat, an old fighting tom, who would jump through the open window by my bed in the middle of the… — Annie Dillard
Some nights, alone, he thinks of her, and some nights, alone, she thinks of him. Some night these thoughts, separated by miles and time zones,… — Steve Martin
I dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects,… — Jonathan Safran Foer
But some nights, I must tell you, I go down there after everyone has fallen asleep. I swim back and forth in the echoing blackness.… — Billy Collins
Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from… — Mitch Albom
English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights. — John H. McWhorter
On nights like this when the air is so clear, you end up saying things you ordinarily wouldn’t. Without even noticing what you’re doing, you… — Banana Yoshimoto

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