Checks Quote by Sarah Dessen

Up until about a hundred years ago, the world was dark at night. You got to have a real night so you could sleep.

— Linda Ronstadt

Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within…

— Guy de Maupassant

Outside, there was that predawn kind of clarity, where the momentum of living has not quite captured the day. The air was not filled…

— Reif Larsen

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

Many of us have made our world so familiar that we do not see it anymore. An interesting question to ask yourself at night…

— John O'Donohue

The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.

— Bill Bryson

I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on me.

— Nikhil Saluja

The idea for 'Awakened' came to me one night on my long commute home to Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The subway station was empty and…

— James Murray

In this universe the night was falling; the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“When you were awake, stretched out in your bed in the dark, shutters drawn, your thoughts would flow freely. They would grow obscure when…

— Edouard Levé

Watch out for dark streets in big cities because there are a lot of strange beings that hang out there at night, let alone…

— Frederick Lenz

The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander…

— Carson McCullers