Alan Lightman Quotes, Past Quotes, Night Quotes

Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant.

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in the newspapers I read a biography about an American. He left his whole huge fortune to factories and for the positive sciences, his skeleton to the students at the academy there, and his skin to make a drum so as to have the American national anthem drummed on it day and night.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Night Quotes , Skeletons Quotes

My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night-- Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about The other four in wondrous motion.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Moon Quotes , Night Quotes

Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a complete thing, I have to recall things gone far, gone deep, sunk into this life or that and become part of it; dreams, too, things surrounding me, and the inmates, those old half-articulate ghosts who keep up their hauntings by day and night... shadows of people one might have been; unborn selves.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Dream Quotes , Night Quotes

Swiftly walk o'er the western wave, Spirit of Night! Out of the misty eastern cave, Where, all the long and lone daylight, Thou wovest dreams of joyand fear, Which make thee terrible and dear, Swift be thy flight!

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Dream Quotes , Night Quotes

Through the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber, Past the wan-mooned abysses of night, I have lived o'er my lives without number, I have sounded all things with my sight.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Past Quotes , Night Quotes

O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. - Romeo -

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Night Quotes , Jewels Quotes

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap And seeing that it was a soft October night Curled once about the house, and fell asleep

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Fall Quotes , Night Quotes

But, if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from these heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime... But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Stars Quotes , Night Quotes

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Night Quotes , Free Education Quotes

Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.

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Tags : Abraham Cowley Quotes , Lying Quotes , Night 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

If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes. If you say yea, yea, "I am, I am", so shall you be.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Faith Quotes , Night Quotes

And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Morning Quotes , Night Quotes

Gentlemen, I have spent the night thinking about this Peruvian (peace) initiative and I have to tell you that if it is your decision to accept then you will have to find another Prime Minister.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Night Quotes , Thinking Quotes

And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know that I can do it.

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Tags : Abigail Williams Quotes , Night Quotes , Witch Trials Quotes

For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins Shall forth at vast of night that they may work All exercise on thee. Thou shalt be pinched As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging Than bees that made 'em.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Exercise Quotes , Night Quotes

Love is a growing, or full constant light; And his first minute, after noon, is night.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Love Quotes , Night Quotes

"I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Night Quotes , Men Quotes

Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Dark Quotes , Night Quotes