Night Quotes - Page 220

The cold blast at the casement beats;The window-panes are white;The snow whirls through the empty streets;It is a dreary night!

I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.

I knew about AIDS. My friends were dying right, left, and center. I did a record with Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, and Gladys Knight. I did a couple of benefits.

My handsome Knight of Night came over to me and kissed me softly on the cheek.

you fly until you crash two days two nights no sleep, no food, come down off the monster YOU CRASH REAL HARD

Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.

True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.

I heard an angel speak last night/And he said, "Write!"

From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.

As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.

Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.

Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling.

The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.

When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it.

And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?

And what are you that, missing you, I should be kept awake As many nights as there are days With weeping for your sake? And what are you that, missing you, As many days as crawl I should be listening to the wind And looking at the wall? I know a man that’s a braver man And twenty men as kind, And what are you, that you should be The one man in my mind? Yet women’s ways are witless ways, As any sage will tell,— And what am I, that I should love So wisely and so well?

There are ... just two kinds of girls. Those who go down town Saturday nights, and those who don't.

A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine.

In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed-- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted.

When you are trapped in a nightmare, your motivation to awaken will be so much greater than that of someone caught up in a relatively pleasant dream.

One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night.

The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.

How far have we come in man's long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light-a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?

On the night Test faced the Great One, this is what he'll see... twelve sharpshooters stinging, eleven eyebrows raising, ten spines a'bustin, nine noggins knocking, eight kicks a'kicking, seven punches punching, six suplexes smashing, five seconds of the people chanting The Rock's name... four Rock Bottoms, three People's Elbows, on your two buckteeth, and an ass-kicking all over New Orleans!

Tonight was a disappointing effort. I thought we competed the last three quarters but in the first quarter we did not compete, we participated, and that's not acceptable.