Midnight Quotes

• Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

  Dean Koontz

  Mind, Sometimes, Our Thoughts

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.138, Bantam

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• How beautiful the silent hour, when morning and evening thus sit together, hand in hand, beneath the starless sky of midnight!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Morning, Twilight

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1852). “The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. With Illustrations by John Gilbert”, p.272

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• The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Moon Night, Noon, Darkness Of Night

  Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.100, Broadview Press

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• Hushed as midnight silence.

  John Dryden

  Silence

  John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “The works of John Dryden,: now first collected in eighteen volumes”, p.42

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• An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

  Bill Vaughan

  New Year, Fun, New Beginnings

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• Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

  John Wayne

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Wayne's lost world" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2007.

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• Don't worry about yesterday it ended last night at midnight.

  John C. Maxwell

  Night, Yesterday, Worry

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• ... people get confidential at midnight.

  Maxine Kumin

  People, Confidential, Confiding

  Maxine Kumin (1974). “The designated heir”, Viking Adult

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• Dawn is born at midnight.

  Carl Jung

  Dawn, Born

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• It starts at midnight.

  Suzanne Collins

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.327, Scholastic Inc.

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• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Literature, Weak, Quaint

  "The Raven" l. 1 (1845)

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• Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask...

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Hours

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• There is a budding morrow in midnight.

  John Keats

  Inspirational, Life, Persistence

  'To Homer' (written 1818)

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• Once upon a midnight dreary

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dreary

  "The Raven" l. 1 (1845)

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• I'm going to wait til the midnight hour, that's when my love begins to shine.

  Wilson Pickett

  Love Is, Expression, Shining

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  I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Faith, Peace

  "50 years after receiving Nobel Prize, do Martin Luther King's peace prophecies still resonate?", www.foxnews.com. October 12, 2014.

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• The moon is hidden behind a cloud... On the leaves is a sound of falling rain... No other sounds than these I hear; The hour of midnight must be near... So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night, They have driven sleep from mine eyes away: I will go down to the chapel and pray.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fall, Rain, Sleep

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Golden Legend: Iv. The Road To Hirschau”

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• Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Best You Ever: 365 Ways to be Richer, Happier, Thinner, Smarter, Younger, Sexier, and More Relaxed - Each and Every Day". Book by Rebecca Swanner (p. 324), October 18, 2010.

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• Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight

  Bob Geldof

  Reading, Tired, The End Of The Day

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• There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.

  John Keats

  Tomorrow

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• I want to be as famous as midnight. As powerful as a gun. As loved as a pizza.

  Macy Gray

  Powerful, Gun, Want

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• Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste.

  J. K. Rowling

  Night, Haste, Dawn

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• I gaze upon the thousand stars
  That fill the midnight sky;
  And wish, so passionately wish,
  A light like theirs on high.
  I have such eagerness of hope
  To benefit my kind;
  I feel as if immortal power
  Were given to my mind.

  Margaret Landon

  Stars, Light, Sky

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• The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

  Willa Cather

  Lying, Moon, Blue

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.782, Simon and Schuster

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• Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.

  William Golding

  Stars, Rain, Clouds

  William Golding (2012). “Lord of the Flies”, p.162, Faber & Faber

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