Quotes of: Sleepless-nights Keyword

If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers...

The Little Prince

Each night, I close my eyes and dream. In the morning, I open my eyes again, but the dreaming doesn't stop.

The Little Silkworm

How mighty you are as death comes upon you and your color fades. Yet from life and lush to bold array, screaming into the night.

Magic in the Backyard

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

You know he loves you, right? (Amanda) Yeah, but emotions don't have brains. (Ash) - About Nick

Seize the Night

Seems to me people are mean or evil because they're scared, mostly, or in pain, or afraid they're going to lose something.

The Sleeping Night

I’ve never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he’s just ruined

Secrets of a Summer Night

My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.

Shadow of Night

It is a defeat of the spirit to learn one's arrogance causes such loss and pain. Pride invites you to soar to heights and the footing, tentative. farther, then, is the fall.

Starless Night

from the prose poem "The Universe Thrums on regardless" in my book SPAN. We are almost nothing in the night. Reduced to warm blobs and the sound of breathing. There is comfort in that.

SPAN

I had to kill and eat my pet chicken. It was dinner for one, because the night before I killed and ate my grandpa.

Sleepwalking is restercise

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

Shakespeare's Sonnets

And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched.

Son of the Shadows

Tomorrow night I’m giving a lecture on silence and invisibility. Don’t be surprised if I don’t show up. 

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

Summer was full on and the nights hot. It was like lying in warm syrup there in the dark under the viaduct, in the steady whine of gnats and nightbugs.

Suttree

For my sustenance at night, the whole that my hands can glean from the gloom of the oak-gloomed oaks-- the herbs and the plenteous fruits...

At Swim-Two-Birds

But we'd only had so many nights together, and the notebook had so many pages, and the world was never going to get bigger.

The Secret Year

You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.

The Tragedy of Arthur

Now turn around and go to sleep. I'm warning you that I plan to sleep with you in my arms all night long.

Tiger's Curse

Evil is nothing more than that, which was once divine, and has fallen into shit." Indrid Night - Through A Glass Darkly.

Through A Glass Darkly

Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark

Teibele And Her Demon