Nighttime Quotes

I’ve always loved the night, when everyone else is asleep and the world is all mine. It’s quiet and dark—the perfect time for creativity.

~ Jonathan Harnisch

I slept under the moonlight and set my soul free, caged within jars like fireflies.

~ Prajakta Mhadnak

Because at nightwhen others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Nothing is so lovely as a quietly snoring dog and some evening Brahms, as you sit in a comfortably overstuffed chair with your feet on the footstool.

~ Ann Beattie

When reality and your dreams collide, typically it’s just your alarm clock going off.

~ Crystal Woods

Shadows could be anywhere in blackness. (Eric)

~ Shannon A. Thompson

When I see the promotion of nighttime street lighting to the masses, I realize the great level of incompetence that is present in governments, human health and the biological effects of light.

~ Steven Magee

. . . a wind howling began, which seemed to form all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.

~ Bram Stoker

I'm just an insomniac struggling for a night where I don't dream of you anymore.

~ Lone Alaskan Gypsy

When the rain finally abates, I decide to wait out the night instead of trying to climb in the dark.

~ Rae Carson

The night creeps in by subtle degrees while a show of fierce colors attracts and distracts me. I look up, suddenly aware of remote lights scattered overhead. I gasp as the last streak of fire dies on the horizon, and I comprehend it all too late. That crafty, dark night has swallowed my world whole.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Foreword: Life is tension or the result of tension: without tension the creative impulse cannot exist. If human life be taken as the result of tension between the two polarities night and day, night, the negative pole, must share equal importance with the positive day. At night, under the influence of cosmic radiations quite different from those of the day, human affairs are apt to come to a crisis. At night most human beings die and are

~ Anna Kavan

She taught me that the nighttime,Is when the stars tend to thrive.

~ Kyra Jackson

savorwith methe lushnessof a lingering sleep...and last night’sdream.

~ Sanober Khan

There's something about the thousands of glittering lights, the veil of nighttime that almost makes this place beautiful, especially in the reflection of the water. It makes everything askew, disoriented. There's more truth in a ripple of water than in a clear day.

~ Ellie Lieberman

All vampires are brothers in the brotherhood of night!

~ Stewart Stafford

Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear.

~ Charlotte Brontë

But tonight is a gusty, hurrying night . . . even the clouds racing over the sky are in a hurry and the moonlight that gushes out between them is in a hurry to flood the world.

~ L.m. Montgomery

The water glittered under the moon’s careful watch, and, in the distance, steeples cut stark black silhouettes into the landscape of the distant city.

~ Katherine Mcintyre

When we humans learn how to analyze the messages of the nighttime we open ourselves up to manifest our greatest selves.

~ Pamela Cummins

I dream of a small room and a man with one eye. Blood seeps like scarlet tears from his empty socket. I turn away and the room becomes a hallway that becomes a stairway that becomes a roof. The wind tugs at my body; the sky tries to wrap me in stars. Below me, a gazebo glows with red light. A line of black cars crawls like cockroaches through the streets. An air conditioner exhaust fan chitters angrily near the roof’s edge, one of its blades bent just enough to scrape against the side of the casing. For a second I let the wind push me close enough to the fan’s razor- sharp blades that a lock of my hair gets snipped and sent out into the night. As it twists and flutters toward the gazebo, I think about just letting go, letting the breeze carry my body into the whirling blades, the wind scattering pieces of me throughout the city. Blood and flesh seeping into the cracked pavement. Flowers blooming wherever I land.

~ Paula Stokes

I didn't intend to go in that direction but strange things happen when the lights go out.

~ Donna Lynn Hope