Midnight Quotes - Page 3

• That hour o' night's black arch the keystane.

  Robert Burns

  Night, Black, Arches

  1790 'Tam o' Shanter. A Tale'.

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• The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Halloween, Moon, Hiding

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.43, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath.

  Margaret Atwood

  Letting Go, Past, Years

  Margaret Atwood (2015). “Morning in the Burned House”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Veils, Strange, Hours

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.270, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• we left about midnight and walked down the hill in silence. the night was muggy, and all around me i felt the same pressure, a sense of time rushing by while it seemed to be standing still. whenever i thought of time in puerto rico, i was reminded of those old magnetic clocks that hung on the walls of my classrooms in high school. every now and then a hand would not move for several minutes -- and if i watched it long enough, wondering if it had finally broken down, the sudden click of the hand jumping three for four notches would startle me when it came.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Wall, Moving, School

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.

  Joaquin Miller

  Wall, Moon, Purple

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• The last hour from midnight had lost half its quarters, and the stars went lifting up the great minutes.

  Clemence Housman

  Stars, Half, Lasts

  Clemence Housman (2004). “The Were-Wolf”, p.52, 1st World Publishing

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• It's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.

  Greta Garbo

  Paris, Making Love, Half

  "Fictional character: Leon". "Ninotchka", 1939.

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• You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, and if you do, it ain't worth it.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Chance, Reincarnation

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• The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets, are bearing her to halls roofed in and lighted to the due pitch for her; and only vice and misery, to prowl or to moan like night birds, are abroad.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Night, Vanity, Bird

  Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books”, p.21

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• Hunger in the midnight, hunger at the stroke of noon
  Hunger in the banquet, hunger in the bride and groom
  Hunger on the TV, hunger on the printed page
  And there's a God-sized hunger underneath the questions of the age

  Jackson Browne

  Age, Noon, Tvs

  Song: Looking East, Album: Looking East, 1996

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• You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in and you had to wait until midnight to see the one you wanted to see. Now, all you've got to do is go to a store and buy it and you can watch it whenever you want!

  John Zorn

  Kids, Waiting, Watches

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• The iron tongue of Midnight hath told twelve lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. I fear we shall outstep the coming morn as much as we this night over-watch'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Iron, Bed

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. [372]

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• Truth and Beauty (perhaps Keats was wrong in identifying them: perhaps they have the relation of Wit and Humour, or Rain and Rainbow) are of interest only to hungry people. There are several kinds of hunger. If Socrates, Spinoza, and Santayana had had free access to a midnight icebox we would never have heard of them. Shall I be ashamed of my little mewing truths?... I ask to be forgiven: they are such tiny ones.

  Christopher Morley

  Philosophy, Rain, People

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• Remember, second chances don't expire until midnight.

  Claire Morgan

  Second Chance, Chance, Remember

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• And to remember both our triumphs and our missteps, our promises made and broken, the times we opened ourselves up to great adventures or closed ourselves down for fear of getting hurt, because that's what new year's all about, getting another chance, a chance to forgive. to do better, to do more, to give more, to love more, and to stop worrying about what if and start embracing what will be. so when that ball drops at midnight, and it will drop, let's remember to be nice to each other, kind to each other, and not just tonight but all year long.

  Claire Morgan

  New Year, Hurt, Nice

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• There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son.

  Aleister Crowley

  Son, Names, Sun

  Aleister Crowley (2016). “The Book of the Law”, p.1, Public Lex

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• If I was at the Comedy Cellar at midnight you yelled at the back of the room. But you, for television, play it to the camera because yes you're communicating to the people at home using the studio audience that's right in front of you as a guide for that.

  John Mulaney

  Home, Play, People

  Source: uproxx.com

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• What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's all.

  Lee Child

  June, Missing, Sun

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• Timothy Leary and I kept the same hours. He believed, as I do, that “After midnight, all things are possible.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Hours, All Things

  Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2011). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.468, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great city. You can't. Because you look around and every street, every boulevard, is its own special art form and when you think that in the cold, violent, meaningless universe that Paris exists, these lights. I mean come on, there's nothing happening on Jupiter or Neptune, but from way out in space you can see these lights, the cafés, people drinking and singing. For all we know, Paris is the hottest spot in the universe.

  Owen Wilson

  Art, Drinking, Book

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• Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Twilight, Despair, Noon

  Benjamin Disraeli (1853). “The Young Duke ... By B. Disraeli. A New Edition”, p.106

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• Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.

  Samuel Beckett

  Rain, House, Window

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.186, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.

  Samuel Johnson

  Morning, Food, Tea Drinking

  Review in the 'Literary Magazine' vol. 2, no. 13 (1757)

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