Nocturnal Quotes

37 quotes by 36 authors

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
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
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
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
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life — Irwin Shaw
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
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
My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal. — Nigel Dennis
The carnal contact side by side, from heel to armpit, brings shudders that shake up nature like the flights of nocturnal birds. — Louis Aragon
I'm nocturnal when it comes to recording - I'm just more creative at night. — Big Boi
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
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
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
I'm a comic, so I like to stay nocturnal. I work 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. — Artie Lange
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
What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they? — Manuel Puig
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
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
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

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