“The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn't really our solitude.” LifeDreamPassionStrangeSolitudeRemainsHostilityDaytimeNocturnalOverloaded Author:Gaston Bachelard
“Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life” WritingLiteratureTheaterFinding YourselfNocturnal Author:Irwin Shaw
“In shape they were like horrible toads, and moved in a succession of springs, but in size they were of an incredible bulk, larger than the largest elephant. We had never before seen them save at night, and indeed they are nocturnal animals save when disturbed in their lairs, as these had been. We now stood amazed at the sight, for their blotched and warty skins were of a curious fish-like iridescence, and the sunlight struck them with an ever-varying rainbow bloom as they moved.” NightAnimalShapesSpringSkinsSightMovedIncrediblesSizeFishesHorribleCuriousSunlightRainbowAmazedElephantsDisturbedSuccessionToadsNocturnal Book:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Dover Reader Source: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Dover Reader
“Walking the streets on winter nights kept him warm, despite the cold nocturnal passions of uprising winds. His footsteps led between trade-marked houses, two up and two down, with digital chimneys like pigs' tits on the rooftops sending up heat and smoke into the cold trough of a windy sky. Stars hid like snipers, taking aim now and again when clouds gave them a loophole. Winter was an easy time for him to hide his secrets, for each dark street patted his shoulder and became a friend, and the gaseous eye of each lamp glowed unwinking as he passed.” TwoEyeNightPassionHouseStarsEasyDarkSecretSkyStreetsWindColdWalkingQuietAimTradeWinterCloudsWarmShouldersDespiteSmokeHeatDigitalPigsLampsFootstepsUprisingChimneysWindyLoopholesRooftopsNocturnalSnipersTroughWinter Night Author:Alan Sillitoe
“My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.” FirstsDifficultSeriousProjectsShyNocturnalBadgers Author:Nigel Dennis
“Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness. Kiss by kiss I cover your tiny infinity, your margins, your rivers, your diminutive villages, and a genital fire, transformed by delight, slips through the narrow channels of blood to precipitate a nocturnal carnation, to be, and be nothing but light in the dark.” TwoWarBodyLightDarkLove IsFireBloodKissingRiversDelightTinyVillageInfinitySlipsTransformedLightningSweetnessRuinedMarginsNocturnalCarnations Author:Pablo Neruda
“Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.” TwoWarBodyLove IsLightningSweetnessRuinedNocturnal Author:Pablo Neruda
“The carnal contact side by side, from heel to armpit, brings shudders that shake up nature like the flights of nocturnal birds.” SidesBirdContactFlightShakesHeelsNocturnalArmpits Author:Louis Aragon
“I'm nocturnal when it comes to recording - I'm just more creative at night.” NightCreativeNocturnal Author:Big Boi
“So great is the economy of nature, that most flowers which are fertilised by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odour chiefly or exclusively in the evening.” NatureEconomyFlowerSmellEveningScentInsectsOdorNocturnal Author:Charles Darwin