Night Quotes - Page 13

Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.

When the storm is over and night falls and the moon is out in all its glory and all you're left with is the rhythm of the sea, of the waves, you know what God intended for the human race, you know what paradise is.

Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.

The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night.

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.

I can't wait to wake up and try something new. I can't sleep at night because I want to try something new.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

You cannot appreciate the beauty of the sky at night without these five shining lights.

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

While I'm gone," Gansey said, pausing, "dream me the world. Something new for every night.

When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.

When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there.

When you become a mom you just learn how to function sleep deprived and you do get used to it. I came back to work when Finley was three months old and the first few months were rough. Then somehow you learn to exist on no sleep and now when he does upon occasion sleep through the night, which is like a full six hours, you're pretty sure he's suffocating. So you don't sleep anyway.

The good shine from afar Like the snowy Himalayas. The bad don't appear Even when near, Like arrows shot into the night.

Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.

Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form.

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.

The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")

Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light

Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.

What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace

I'm all about nightlife. I live during the night.

I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.