Ashes Quote by Samuel R. Delany

“There is nothing left to watch but fire and the night: circle within circle, light within light. Messages arrive in the net where discrete…

— Samuel R. Delany

The night comes for the purpose of checking our busy employment, and introducing an interval of repose between the links of our action and…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Night is the permanent revolution, that of the globe. Every sundown the streets change, becoming sinister or libidinous, or, for that matter, longer or…

— Lucy Sante

Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. Around any corner, there's a promise of something daring and ideal and things…

— Bob Dylan

Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes,…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through…

— Charles Dickens

Night is falling. The gods have left us for those who please them better. Our time in the world is passed, and we are…

— Jim Grimsley

“Night is when the whispers of the past become the echoes of the present.”

— Faraaz Kazi

“On moonlight nights the long, straight street and dirty white walls, nowhere darkened by the shadow of a tree, their peace untroubled by footsteps…

— Albert Camus

“It was the deepest part of the night. There was a name for it that I couldn’t remember – that mystical black hour where…

— Kkat

The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of shape and the burden of exposure. Each…

— John O'Donohue