Quotes about night
night darkness library
A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn. Victor Hugo
night light climbing
Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the earth There is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end And the sun will rise. Victor Hugo
night names giving
Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter. Victor Hugo
night clouds black
Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament. Victor Hugo
night free-education soul
Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness. Victor Hugo
night firsts complaints
On the first night it was on telly, Channel 4 had 17 complaints. Vic Reeves
night men worry
Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent. Vicki Baum
night guidance guidance-and-direction
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen. Vernon Howard
night ideas sick
Why did you do it?" I say. "You want me dead. You were willing to do it yourself! What changed?" He presses his lips together and doesn't look away, not for a long time. Then he opens his mouth, hesitates, and finally says, " I can't be in anyone's debt. Okay? The idea that I owed you something made me sick. I would wake up in the middle of the night feeling like I was going to vomit. Indebted to a stiff? It's ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. And I couldn't have it. Veronica Roth
night dragons years
We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks. Richard Bach
night has-beens
I am one who has been acquainted with the night Robert Frost
night white giving
Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night. Robert Frost
night tree window
Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me. Robert Frost
night civilization cities
The city is all right. To live in one Is to be civilized, stay up and read Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise By waiting up instead of getting up. Robert Frost
night night-time draws
When it draws near to witching time of night. Robert Blair
night light giving
The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night. Robert Bly
night office tables
This congestion in the post offices is due to what are technically known as "regulations" but what are really a series of acrostics and anagrams devised by some officials who got around a table one night and tried to be funny. Robert Benchley
night bed tomorrow
I'm fortunate that I'm employed. And if you're in show business, of course, every night you go to bed and go, oh my god, tomorrow I'll never, ever work again. Rick Mercer
night careers two
In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the first night. And I just wish we could devise a system where critics came not on a single evening but were given a choice of performances to attend. Richard McCabe
night mind legs
Words are the legs of the mind; they bear it about, carry It from point to point, bed it down at night, and keep it off the ground and out of the marsh and mists. Richard Eder
night people film-and-television
Theater is completely different from film or television. It has a beginning and a middle and an end and it's different every night. And it's far preferable to any other except in the sense of not getting paid, people who want to eat should do film and television. Richard Dreyfuss
night parent singing
My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education. Renee Fleming
night sky singing
Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations. Thornton Wilder
night remember equal
There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night. Thornton Wilder
night men years
All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God there is nothing finite...Upon a night of earthquake he builds a thousand years of pleasant habitations for man. Upon the sorrow of an infant he raises oftentimes from human intellects glorious vintages that could not else have been. Thomas de Quincey
night planning disappear
storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning, Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing, I tread day and night such roads. Walt Whitman
night hands cities
Once I passed through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions, Yet now of all that city I remember only a woman I Casually met there who detained me for love of me, Day by day and night by night we were together—all else Has long been forgotten by me, I remember I say only that woman who passionately clung To me, Again we wander, we love, we separate again, Again she holds me by the hand, I must not go, I see her close beside me with silent lips sad and tremulous. Walt Whitman
night greatness expression
Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence. Walt Whitman
night soul logic
Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul. Walt Whitman
night space forever
I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems, All all I see multiplied as high as I can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems. Wider and wider they spread, expanding, always expanding, Outward and outward and forever outward. Walt Whitman
night sky purpose
The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night, Ya-honk! he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation: The pert may suppose it meaningless, but I listen closer, I find its purpose and place up there toward the November sky. Walt Whitman
night thinking waiting
I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you. Walt Whitman
night spectre through-my-eyes
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems Walt Whitman