Nocturnal Quotes
37 quotes by 36 authors
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.
— Jean Baudrillard
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Yet just as the day has two halves, one governed by the sun and the other by the moon, so there are many who are…
— Aino Kallas
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Who I am finally, if not the long silent part of someone, the secret and nocturnal part which has never betrayed itself in public by…
— Anne Desclos
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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It…
— Gaston Bachelard
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life
— Irwin Shaw
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In shape they were like horrible toads, and moved in a succession of springs, but in size they were of an incredible bulk, larger than…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Walking the streets on winter nights kept him warm, despite the cold nocturnal passions of uprising winds. His footsteps led between trade-marked houses, two up…
— Alan Sillitoe
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My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.
— Nigel Dennis
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The carnal contact side by side, from heel to armpit, brings shudders that shake up nature like the flights of nocturnal birds.
— Louis Aragon
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I'm nocturnal when it comes to recording - I'm just more creative at night.
— Big Boi
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So great is the economy of Nature, that most flowers which are fertilized by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odor chiefly or exculsively in…
— Charles Darwin
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We of the age of the machines, having delivered ourselves of nocturnal enemies, now have a dislike of night itself. With lights and ever more…
— Henry Beston
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Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents; what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a…
— Jean Cocteau
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I'm a comic, so I like to stay nocturnal. I work 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.
— Artie Lange
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With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
— Manuel Puig
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It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The last light, in the last window, went out. Only the unstoppable machine of the sea still tears away at the silence with the cyclical…
— Alessandro Baricco
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There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You lie there entirely…
— Terry Pratchett
Who Wrote These Nocturnal Quotes
36 authors contributed a total of 37 Nocturnal Quotes, led by these top contributors: