Midnight Quotes - Page 10

• No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.

  Holly Black

  Regret, Night, Trouble

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• I ran to the children's room: their door was ajar, I saw they had never laid down, though it was past midnight; but they were calmer, and did not need me to console them. The little souls were comforting each other with better thoughts than I could have hit on: no parson in the world ever pictured heaven so beautifully as they did, in their innocent talk; and, while I sobbed, and listened. I could not help wishing we were all there safe together.

  Emily Bronte

  Children, Past, Doors

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• My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather. One such melting occurs in summer rain, at midnight, during the vine-green breathing time right before sleep. You have to ask the right question, throw the right rope bridge, to get there-and then bolt across the chasm between you, before your bridge collapses.

  Karen Russell

  Summer, Rain, Sleep

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• Those that trust no one, usually end up trusting the wrong person."-Umma to Midnight

  Sister Souljah

  Trust No One, Wrong Person, Ends

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• Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Dream, Wish, Rambling

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.137, Macmillan

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• It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midnight and uttered that classic line "You know, we really should work together sometime.

  Rob Bell

  Party, Working Together, Lines

  Rob Bell (2013). “Love Wins and The Love Wins Companion”, p.17, HarperCollins UK

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• The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.

  Patrick Ness

  Monsters

  Patrick Ness (2012). “A Monster Calls”, Walker

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• Don't die on me," she whispered when the clock struck midnight and he still had not moved. "It's only a little shoulder wound. Goddess, George-don't die on me." His eyes flickered open and he smiled. "I didn't know you cared," he whispered. "And why insult me? I won't die for a wee nick like this; I've had worse in my day." Alanna wiped her wet cheeks. "Of course I care, you unprincipled pickpocket!" she whispered. "Of course I care.

  Tamora Pierce

  Eye, Care, Littles

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “In the Hand of the Goddess”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last drops of midnight oil. On books and papers as I read, My friend, your mournful light you shed. If only I could flee this den And walk the mountain-tops again, Through moonlit meadows make my way, In mountain caves with spirits play - Released from learning's musty cell, Your healing dew would make me well!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sweet, Book, Healing

  "The Essential Goethe".

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• Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky... Nice work if you can get it And you can get it -- if you try.

  Ira Gershwin

  Nice, Hands, Sky

  "NiceWork If You Can Get It" (song) (1937)

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• All cats are not gray after midnight.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sex, Cat, Gray

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• A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.

  Johnny Cash

  Strong, Sadness, White

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• I've always had a really developed sense of justice. As a child, I would rotate my dolls' dresses for fear that they might come alive at midnight and one of them would always have the best dress on. Whatever it was that made me worry about my dolls I suppose has paid off in my career because, really, an actor is all about empathy and imagination. And those are the cornerstones of activism.

  Susan Sarandon

  Children, Careers, Justice

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• Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Success, Country

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.65, Cooper Square Press

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• People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn't like that. You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that's all there is to it.

  Harlan Ellison

  Morning, Writing, Thinking

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• Christ chargeth me to believe His daylight at midnight.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Believe, Daylight, Christ

  Samuel Rutherford (1848). “Letters of ... Samuel Rutherford, whith biogr. notices of his correspondents, by J. Anderson, and a sketch of his life, &c., by A.A. Bonar”, p.543

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• Brother woke just after midnight and he didn't make a sound, and as he climbed from out of bed with severed rings around his head, his feet didn't touch the ground. I could feel it then-a tiny miracle-so I followed him into the woods, crossed beneath the trees but only I left my prints in tow, he was afloat. He found a lonely tree and tied himself within its limbs, and he said to me these words: 'Don't you fear for me, I am where I'm supposed to be.'

  Radical Face

  Lonely, Brother, Feet

  Song: Severus and Stone, Album: The Family Tree: The Roots

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• The ocean sleeps. The ocean wakes. And the waking of the ocean is the waking of the soul. At midnight wakefulness springs from within the ocean.

  Wasif Ali Wasif

  Spring, Ocean, Sleep

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• Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Morning, Long, Ignorant

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.305, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sorrow, Bed, Bread

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.703, Library of America

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• When moonlight french kisses the Manhattan midnight
  There's a not a face without a teardrop that's in sight
  Midnights in Manhattan keep me dreamin'
  I think I'm gonna keep em

  Mac Lethal

  Kissing, Thinking, Sight

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• Energy is felt once the cards are dealt With the impact of roundhouse kicks from black belts that attack the microphone like cyclones or typhoons I represent from midnight to high noon.

  GZA

  Impact, Hip Hop, Black

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• Do I midnight snack? Not a lot, but sometimes. And it's usually Doritos Cooler Ranch. I know that's terrible, especially for a pro athlete, but they're just so good.

  Clint Mathis

  Athlete, Snacks, Doritos

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• We gauge risk literally hundreds of times per day, usually well and often subconsciously. We start assessing risk before the disaster even happens. We are doing is right now. We decide where to live and what kind of insurance to buy, just like we process all kinds of everyday risks: we wear bike helmets, or not. We buckle our seatbelts, smoke cigarettes, and let our kids stay out until midnight. Or not.

  Amanda Ripley

  Kids, Risk, Everyday

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• The rest and the spell of sleep in the middle of the day refresh the human frame far more than a long night. We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We throw a strain upon our system which is unfair and improvident. For every purpose of business or pleasure, mental or physical, we ought to break our days and our marches into two.

  Winston Churchill

  Morning, Sleep, Night

  Sir Winston Churchill (1951). “A Roving Commission”

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