T Quotes
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“The night comes for the purpose of checking our busy employment, and introducing an interval of repose between the links of our action and our aspiration. It draws its dim curtain around the field of toil. It buries the objects of our handiwork in darkness, and involves them with uncertainty. It comes to the relief of the exhausted body and the tired brain. Our powers, harmonizing with the diurnal revolutions of the earth, fail with the failing light, and a merciful Providence casts around us this mantle of shadow, and snatches us from our occupation.”
“The night comes on that knows not morn,
When I shall cease to be all alone,
To live forgotten, and love forlorn.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“The night cometh when no man can work.”
“The night crackled ... Everything had turned to static electricity in the heat. I combed my hair to watch the sparks fly from the ends.”
Source: White Oleander
“The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from behind a distant hill, the noble sun rose up, driving the mists in phantom shapes before it, and clearing the earth of their ghostly forms till darkness came again.”
Source: A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens
“The night darkens, the stars unfriendly, the cold a knife upon her neck - but Nella waits, until she can no longer difference between Johannes and the darkness that carries him away.”
Source: The Miniaturist
“The night destroys the sun”
“the night does not end
the stars keep on peeping”
“The night doesn't say to itself, 'Here comes a shooting star to interrupt my peace!'”
Source: Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love
“The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.”
“The night embarks, or dark ages,
Flocks returning to nests, congesting the city,
Rush hours begin, honking and jamming,
Few like us aren’t in hurry, waiting by the bus stop,
Chatting over trivial episodes, perhaps making memories of lifelong,
Evenings spent miles across, freedom, I could return at anytime,
No one to ask, hardly any anticipation,
I am home now, thus my phone rings, cozy wintry dewdrop.”
“The night embraces me, cool and endless, and above me the stars are tiny holes in the darkness through which the light of eternity is pouring out. I can almost sense primordial stardust flowing through my veins. People are forever telling me that stars make them feel small, and I always nod noncommittally and wonder at the stuffy confinement of their minds. Stars make me feel vast.”
Source: Forty Rooms
“The night extended before me, all those magnificently empty hours shining with possibility.”
Source: Sea of Tranquility
“The night finds the flowers of light and seasons, the scent of life, for darkness sees the blossom of stars and spring comes to the fields of frost.”
“The night folds her trembling hands over a weary world. Out of a pale blue rises the shining moon. My thoughts are flying to the stars like lonely swans.”
“The night glittered brilliantly then.”
Source: Asleep
“The night got so lonely without a moon, and so it appeared...”
“The night grew dark and the stars grew bright,
But her mind never settled and neither has she tried.
She looked at the lights, the window and the stars
And that cool breeze, that erased all the scars.
She lay in the dark waiting to sleep
With many haunted tales running through the deep
And then she smiled at the beauty of its peace
For the night and it's beauty always kept her at ease.”
“The night grew warmer as he looked into her eyes the way she'd wanted him to the last time they'd parted.”
“The night had a nearly liquid quality, was like sliding into a warm swimming pool, a pool filled with buoyant darkenss instead of water.”
Source: The Fireman
“The night had darkened to the murky sort where the air hung like descending clouds and the overhead branches made the liquid darkness even more impenetrable.”
Source: Stolen Petals
“The night had teeth. Wind tore through the apple trees, their skeletal branches clawing at the sky. Beyond the garden fence, the dacha settlement lay in uneasy slumber—rows of dark shacks, abandoned for the season, their windows blind and cold.
Chicken-wire fences sagged under rust and neglect, some topped with barbed wire that glinted like fangs in the distant glow of Moscow. Far off, a cement plant loomed against the horizon, a hulking silhouette of Soviet ambition gone to rot. To the north, the pines of Elk Island groaned under the gale, their black crowns thrashing like beasts in chains. And above it all, the October sky churned with torn clouds, racing toward some unseen war.
I walked two hundred yards down the gravel drive, past sleeping plots fenced in rusted wire, boots rasping over dry, dead grass. Tested the radio. Exchanged a few words with Romeo.
Static hissed like a snake in the dark, but the signal held.”
Source: Last Tango in Moscow: A Cold War Tale of Espionage, the Mafia, and Forbidden Love
“The night has a capacity for terror that the day can never match.”
“The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies, With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies, When love is done.”
“The night has a thousand eyes.”
“The night has already turned on that imperceptible pivot where two A.M. changes to six A.M. You know this moment has come and gone, but you are not yet willing to concede that you have crossed the line beyond which all is gratuitous damage and the palsy of unraveled nerve endings. Somewhere back there you could have cut your losses, but your rode past that moment on a comet trail of white powder and now you are trying to hang on to the rush.”
Source: Bright Lights, Big City
“The night has always been my friend. When I go out I feel good, then I always score goals.”
“The night has become mine; I have fallen in love with the night.”
Source: If Stars Could Speak
“The night has given me dark eyes But I use them to look for light.”
“The night has made up its mind. It’s we who are too slow, who move in the wake of events already decided for us, who refuse, who are too weak or too simple, or are perhaps, strictly, unable to understand”
Source: The Orchardist
“The night has so much to offer those who live in their he[art].”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“The Night Haunter’s growl was a wet, burbling thing at the back of his throat. He loathed begging,
principally because he didn’t understand it. They knew they were guilty, and justice had come for them.
They deserved this. Their actions made it necessary. So why beg? Why seek to flee from the
consequences of their own actions? Why sin at all if the price was too high to pay?”
Source: Prince of Crows
“The night-haunts never lie. They could, if they wanted to, but they don’t really see the point. The truth is so much more dangerous than a lie.”
Source: One Salt Sea
“The night hides a world, but reveals a universe.”
“The night holds a wisdom the day has yet to dream of.”
“The night holds its mysteries, my friends, and tomorrow presents us with another opportunity for adventure!”
Source: Peruvian Days
“The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.”
Source: Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter
“The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.”
“The night I flew out from Rwanda, I landed in Nairobi, and I was on my way back home, and my left side started to paralyze and remained paralyzed with pain, and the stress and so on began to appear physically.”
“The night I met him [he] told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for. He was given wealth, fame, and power, yet his soul yearned only for spiritual peace so that he could silence the shadows in his heart...”
Source: Marina
“The night I sailed for China, March 3, 1893, my life, on the human side, was broken, and it never was mended again. But He has been enough.”
“The night I sat down to read Dostoievski for the first time was a most important event in my life, even more important than my first love. It was the first deliberate, conscious act which had significance for me; it changed the whole face of the world. Whether it is true that the clock stopped that moment when I looked up after the first deep gulp I don't know any more. But the world stopped dead for a moment, that I know. It was my first glimpse into the soul of a man, or shall I say simply that Dostoievski was the first man to reveal his soul to me?"
Henry Miller”
“The night I started playing your CD out loud for you, instead of playing it through my headphones?"
Now this made my eyebrows rise. "You listened to it before that night?"
"Every night. I've listened to it every single night since you gave it to me.”
Source: Beautiful Broken Rules
“The night I turned twenty-two, I drank a shot for every year. I was so drunk, I'd just walk up to people in the bar and hit them in the balls. My friends drove me home and left me propped up on the couch holding a bucket. I woke up with vomit all over me. The bucket was clean as a whistle.”
“The night I was born, my great uncle Moanea, the village forester, shot a wolf. The villagers roasted it in the fire and fed the meat to the dogs.”
Source: A Luminous Future
“The night I was born, Lord I swear the moon turned a fire red.”
“The night I was recognized for 'Daughters' at the Grammys was the night this record started. I knew I had bought the time to learn everything I needed before I started this one. 'Continuum' is not a shot in the dark, it's not a guesstimation.”
“The night inches on. I could make a career out of worrying, if only anyone would pay me. What do I worry about during these long nights? Money. Death. Failure. The familiar horsemen of those quiet apocalypses that happen only when the sun‘s gone down. In the middle of the night, I can worry my house onto the edge of a cliff, forever about to topple onto the rocks below. I am only ever a missed wage packet away from total annihilation. I carry too much debt. I own nothing. I own too much...”
Source: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.”
Source: Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts
“The night is a strawberry.”
Source: Bury Your Dead: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel