210 quotes found
“You never get tired of looking at the stars”
“The velvet tapestry of the night curved from horizon to horizon, flecked with thousands of tiny stars. There seemed all the more of them, for as well as filling the sky, they shimmered in an elegan...”
“You may think you see plenty of stars, friend reader, but you are wrong. Night is both blacker and more brilliant than you can imagine, and the sky a glory that puts to shame the most splendid jewe...”
“You know what the best part of the stars is?""What's that?""They're the same no matter what sky you're standing under. I mean...yeah, they might move or look like they're in a different place, but ...”
“My favorite symphony is the silent song of the night!”
“What hath night to do with sleep?”
“Good night - may you fall asleep in the arms of a dream, so beautiful, you'll cry when you awake.”
“Sleep is an under-ocean dipped into each night.”
“However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness.”
“This is night, Diddykins. That's what we call it when it goes all dark like this. ”
“Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up f...”
“Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.”
“all those nights with the phone warming the side of my face like the sun.”
“The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.”
“Pleasure is wild and sweet. She likes purple flowers. She loves the sun and the wind and the night sky. She carries a silver bowl full of liquid moonlight. She has a cat named Midnight with stars o...”
“The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of shape and the burden of exposure. Each thing creeps back into its own nature within the shelter of ...”
“That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night.”
“Night does not show things, it suggests them. It disturbes and surprises us with its strangeness. It liberates forces within us which are dominated by our reason during the daytime.”
“May night continue to fall upon the orchestra”
“The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?”
