Charles Dickens Quotes, Moon Quotes, Night Quotes

The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far we are pursued by nothing else.

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Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Night Quotes , Towns Quotes

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!

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And o'er the hills, and far away Beyond their utmost purple rim, Beyond the night, across the day, Thro' all the world she follow'd him.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Night Quotes , Purple Quotes

DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night, or day improper - the former devoted to sins of business, the latter consecrated to the other sort.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Business Quotes , Night Quotes

Life is happiness and unhappiness. Life is day and night, life is life and death. You have to be aware of both.

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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Kissing Quotes , Night Quotes

In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Night Quotes , Race Quotes

I've been a musician since I was nine. I think a ghost or goblin visited me in the night. Maybe aliens abducted me, or a divine figure sent me a spiritual memo. Who knows.

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Tags : Alan Cohen Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Night Quotes

In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face the face of one long dead Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Wall Quotes , Night Quotes

There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Men Quotes , Night Quotes

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

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Every moment of the night Forever changing places And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Stars Quotes , Night Quotes

But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?

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I could have danced all night!

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Tags : Alan Jay Lerner Quotes , Night Quotes , Ballet Quotes

You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly-and woke up again, and here I were.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Night Quotes , Long Quotes

Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Night Quotes , Tender Is The Night Quotes

My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Night Quotes , Men Quotes

Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.

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Is mankind alone in the universe? Or are there somewhere other intelligent beings looking up into their night sky from very different worlds and asking the same kind of question?

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