Bars Quote by Samuel Johnson

Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Let me look up from it - as at…

— Charles Dickens

Silent night, holy night, when the bough flies from the tree and is hung everywhere, when from tables the crusts fly, when the gifts…

— Ingeborg Bachmann

“The thing, whatever it was - and no one was ever sure afterwards whether it was a dream or a fit or what -…

— Cornell Woolrich

In the dark of the night, evil will find her. In the dark of the night just before dawn. Revenge will be sweet when…

— Anastasia

“At the end of the day, we are with ourselves — and this can either be the most beautiful thing or the cruelest of punishments.”

— Laura Chouette

“yet he felt the contrast between the well-filled, well-lighted shops and the dim gloomy cellar, and it made him moody that such contrasts should…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Beauty, midnight, vision dies: Let the winds of dawn that blow Softly round your dreaming head Such a day of welcome show Eye and…

— Anonymous

What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive guilt, finds…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“this midnight my desire will see, shadowed among the embers, furled in flame, the splendor and the sadness of the world”

— F Scott Fitzgerald

In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“...because it is the privilige and the curse of midnight's children to be both masters and victims of their times, to forsake privacy and…

— Salman Rushdie

“All the suffering and torment wrought at places of execution, in torture chambers, madhouses, operating theatres, under the arches of bridges in late autumn—all…

— Rainer Maria Rilke