N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Night-time moves us in mysterious ways. Darkness brings to light things that we would not otherwise notice in daylight.”
Source: In Search for Meaning
“NIGHT TIME PASSIONS
My tongue remembers your name.
It whispers it to itself
at night, thinking I am asleep,
not realising its linguistic dance
is keeping me from slumber.
My tongue remembers your taste too,
but keeps those wet memories
to itself,
no matter how much I ask.”
Source: The Madness of Qwerty
“Night time
You’ll find her there
Blooming
Like a night rose.”
Source: Moon Gypsy
“Night to night, doing the clubs is a lot of fun too because you have a lot more freedom and you don't have to worry about swearing or going off the script or going long or going short. If you bomb, only a handful of people see it. On TV, a lot of people see it.”
“Night Triumphant- and the Stars Eternal.
If he was the sweet, terrifying darkness, I was the glittering light that only his shadows could make clear.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“Night unchecked risks bleeding into Day.”
“Night Vale, my sweet and only Night Vale, may you find love. May you find it wherever it's been hidden. May you find who has been hiding it and extract revenge upon them.”
Source: The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe
“Night vision. Unclip your bows. Ready. Fly.””
Source: Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand
“Night waking isn't the sign of a bad baby. It's the sign of a normal baby. Nighttime needs are as valid as daytime needs and nighttime parenting as necessary as daytime parenting. Crying is communication, not manipulation. Respond to your baby's cries, even if all they need is to know you're there. You're not being manipulated. You're being a parent.”
“Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it you could brush against appalling things and feel roaming and prowling around a strange, mysterious horror.”
Source: The diary of a madman, and other tales of horror
“Night was close. Black trees towered over the dimly lit horizon like cloaked guardians. The winds rocked their crown and their heads tilted, like a nod, begging him over. He wanted to join them. Desperately. He longed for a friend as precious and pure. With the next gust of wind, their bodies seemed to grow, arching over the slumbering town, watching like a curious visitor. There was nobody outside, but some homes were still lit. A tiny speck of brightness that broke the trees’ black figures with an orange hue forming near the roots. The winds jerked and pulled, and for a moment, it looked like their roots were a prison. And that even comfort, nourishment, life itself, was worth escaping.”
“Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear. We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.”
“Night was coming on in, borrowing the light. It had started out borrowing just a few cents worth of the light, but now it was borrowing thousands of dollars worth of the light every second. The light would soon be gone, the bank closed, the tellers unemployed, the bank president a suicide.”
Source: Richard Brautigan's A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster: Three Books in the Manner of Their Original Editions
“Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day's end. They were manifesting as the earth's bright-colored nerve endings, the sun's descent urging them into activity, filling them individually with life nectar, the life nectar then being passed into the world, out of each beak, in the form of that bird's distinctive song, which was, in turn, an accident of beak shape, throat shape, breast configuration, brain chemistry: some birds blessed in voice, others cursed; some squeaking, others rapturous.”
Source: Tenth of December: Stories
“Night was in the sky, night in her winter austerity - keen, clear, a-glitter with stars as though her robe were spangled with cosmic frost.”
Source: Uther and Igraine
“Night was running ahead of itself.”
“Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were five billion people down there. What was going to happen soon would make barbarism look like a picnic - hot, nasty, and eventually given over to the ants.”
“Night was the real measure of love, Hortensia thought. Anything can sparkle in the daylight. But night – that was when humanity got tested. It was always at night that she saw things between them were decrepit and ugly.”
Source: The Woman Next Door
“Night wasn't so much falling as sharpening its claws.”
“Night Watch itself is a very Russian movie. Its impossible to imagine this kind of movie somewhere else: a movie with a depressing ending, a lot of inexplicable storylines, strange characters. Its a Russian reflection of American film culture.”
“Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.”
Source: The Stars, Like Dust
“Night will always remain a cat's magical, fanciful time.”
“Night will fall on us all and the coach will pull up.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
“Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep.”
Source: The amateur emigrant. Across the plains. The silverado squatters
“Night won't again still the light of our days,
Toil and glory of our days will not waste away.
The judge will be overcome by justices' eminence.
The moon and stars shall be our silent witness to guide,
When evening comes.”
Source: The Princess Crown Land
“Night, you who gather in your lovely lap
The things the shining dawn flung far and wide,
The ewe-lamb you bring back, the straying goat,
The child you lead unto its mothers side.”
“Night's black Mantle covers all alike.”
Source: The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited
“Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops." Hope tinged with melancholy - like life.”
“Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.”
“Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.”
“Night, a more perfect day.”
Source: Poems
“Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death.”
Source: The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis
“Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun. Stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spiraling round for terror, and holding each other in embrace, there in a darkness that outpassed them all, and left them tiny and daunted. So much, and himself, infinitesimal, at the core of nothingness, and yet not nothing.”
“Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead.”
Source: Works of Charles Dickens: Dombey and son
“Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.”
“Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.”
Source: Flight to Arras
“Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)
“Night, when words fade and things come alive.”
Source: Flight to Arras
“Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.”
“Night. Heavenly delicious sweet night of the desert that calls all of us to love her. The night is our comfort with her coolness and darkness. On wings, on feet, on our bellies, out we all come to glory in the night.”
“Nightbirde
"You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy.”
“Nightbitch herself explained that her work was meant to underscore the brutality of motherhood, how a child’s first act is violence against the woman who created it. Yet the mother loves the child with the most powerful love known in this universe”
Source: Nightbitch
“Nightclub City tells the behind-the-scenes story of Manhattan's glamorous nightlife at its peak. Packed with colorful characters, terrific original research, and an unusually accessible writing style, Nightclub City is a gritty social history of America's most glitzy fantasies.”
“Nightcrawler-- Kurt! Your ears-- You're bleeding!
Just like the boy. and we will all end up like him if something is not done.
But what?! Stryker's countin' on an Attack-- We'll be provin' on nation-wide TV that we're the menace he's been preachin' we are.”
Source: X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills
“Nightcrawler's generous and kind and decent! He had every reason to be bitter, every excuse to become as much of a demon inside and out. But he decided he'd rather learn to laugh instead! I hope I can be half the person he is. And if I have to choose between caring for my friend and believing in your God... Then I choose... M-My Friend!”
Source: X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills
“Nightfall was approaching, the light pouring away past the world’s horizon in a gradually darkening cascade.”
Source: The Crimes of Orphans
“Nightfall was the best part of everyday life. When the sun began to sink behind a rolling horizon, everything came to a halt. If Ian didn’t ride up the hill with Sevenah and Paka, he would be there waiting when she arrived. There they sat and watched the sunset, a ritual shared faithfully every night, settled side-by-side below the drooping branches of her favorite weeping willow tree. Sometimes they discussed the day. Sometimes they simply stared out at a fiery sky and said nothing at all. Regardless, Ian was always at her side.
Always.
Except for today.
“Where are you, Ian? I could really use you now.”
Source: Eena, The Dawn and Rescue
“Nightfall. “What a strange word. ‘Night’ I get. But ‘fall’ is a gentle word. Autumn leaves fall, swirling with languid grace To carpet the earth with their dying blaze. Tears fall, like liquid diamonds Shimmering softly, before they melt away. Night doesn’t fall here. It comes slamming down.”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“Nightingale"
Did I wound you, mutilate. Take away your voice. Did I cut something from you. Leave you locked in silence?
This is what you do: you sing. Every part of you. Your locks of hair sing, your eyes, your hands, your smile. If I listen closely I can even hear your blood.
Was I the one that took that away?
Go down to the water where we used to swim. Stand under the sky at dawn when the sky is streaked with blood. Open your mouth and shout our secret to the waves. The ocean will be your voice. You won't have to carry anything alone. Little Sister, my Spring, April. Little nightingale. Sant at the edge of the water. Your voice will come back to you. Maybe. If I am silent.”
Source: Wasteland
“Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?”
Source: Selected poems