“I loved the dark. The taste of what it offered sweet on the tongue of my imagination. The de licious burn of trespass on my conscience. I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.”
“I wait on the origin of night s sounds waking. I know that here only the blind man sings, even in rain The notes of drenched violins rise like warped mirrors and the last clouds part slowly, like a cracked wheel.”
“By day the frolic, and the dance by night.”
“The night is itself without narrative – the way the hours move, less like a stream flowing somewhere and more like water swilling in a shallow pool, until suddenly the pool is drained and it’s morning.”
“To the sea To the sea We dived Naked bodies, dressed with the night.”
“Clasping hands— the trees whispered to each other, as the moon leaned in to listen.”
“I lost my circadian rhythm during extreme night shift work atop the very high altitude mountain of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Waking up in the morning, staying awake during the daytime and sleeping has been problematic ever since.”
“The Sun of a Woman is a Sin to the Night”
“It is a curious spectacle to see a magnificent blue sapphire lose in the night all its glories while a poor trinket of aquamarine not only retains all its effect, but even seems to gain brilliancy.”
“The city has a reputation for constant sunshine and warmth, but once the sun is down at night, LA remembers it’s secretly a desert under its newer identity. The cool night air doesn’t care what midday was like.”
“Love stories abound in all cultures: Romeo and Juliet, Orpheus and Eurydice, Tristan and Isolde, and in the Middle East, we find the stories of Yusuf and Zuleika, and Majnûn and Laylá. The story of Majnûn and Layla- was (and still is) widely known throughout the Islamic world. However, in the hands of Persian Sûfî poets, the story became transformed into a symbol of the love of a human being for Allâh. In Sûfîsm, questing for Allâh is similar to the European Grail quest in which the Knight quests for a Chalice (the cup being a symbol of the female sexual organ). Laylá, in Arabic, comes from the word layl meaning night . The association of the Divine Feminine with Darkness and the Night is ubiquitous.”
“Nasty chapped lips was always a problem at the end of several night shifts atop the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea.”
“The sky is piercingly blue, and all day I suffer from its presence, longing for the night to come and deliver me from it.”
“Over the hills behind the farm the light started. Just a thinning of the very black night that made the stars twinkle more, vibrate like a bird s throat, and put out a light loud compared to their tininess.”
“I associate night shift work with circadian rhythm disorders, extreme working hours and tumors.”
“she was only fascinated under neptune increasingly outside my reach at night.”
“If you really want to mess someone up, you sleep deprive them.”