“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.”
“I am night - intimate, joyous, tranquil, troubled. My darkness has no beginning and my depths no end. When the spirits arise, splendid in the light of their joys, my spirit comes frozen in the shadows of its pain.”
“Oh and night, the night, when a wind full of infinite space gnaws at our faces”
“And yet it seems so full of comfort and of strength, the night. In its great presence, our small sorrows creep away, ashamed. The day has been so full of fret and care, and our hearts have been so full of evil and bitter thoughts, and the world has seemed so hard and wrong to us. Then Night, like some great loving mother, gently lays her hand upon our fevered head, and turns our little tear-stained faced up to hers, and smiles; and, though she does not speak, we know what she would say, and lay our hot flushed cheek against her bosom, and the pain is gone.”
“It was a stormy and dark night; vast clouds covered the heavens, concealing the stars; the moon would not rise till midnight.”
“The wind howled and raged a storm, as if rummaging through the night for something it had left behind.”
“All major cities in the world look best at night because night skilfully hides their ugly side!”
“Sometimes we d have that whole river all to ourselves for the longest time. Yonder was the banks and the islands, across the water; and maybe a spark-- which was a candle in a cabin window... It s lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened; Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many. Jim said the moon could a laid them; well, that looked kind of reasonable... because I ve seen a frog lay most as many, so of course it could be done. We used to watch the stars that fell, too, and see them streak down. Jim allowed they d got spoiled and was hove out of the nest. Once or twice of a night we would see a steamboat slipping along in the dark, and now and then she would belch a whole world of sparks up out of her chimbleys, and they would rain down in the river and look awful pretty; then she would turn a corner and her lights would wink out and her powwow shut off and leave the river still again; and by and by her waves would get to us, a long time after she was gone, and joggle the raft a bit, and after that you wouldn t hear nothing for you couldn t tell how long, except maybe frogs or something.”
“Night is a great need, it is a gift of nature to us creatures who get bored quickly! It is a wonderful medicine for the souls bored of the daytime!”
“The miserly night brought very little sleep, and no solutions. It shared nothing with them, keeping every crumb of light to itself.”
“When evening fell he dragged a chair out to the porch, where he sat through the night, a shotgun on his lap, staring into the dark.”
“You seem some people are born with a piece of night inside, and that hollow place can never be filled - not with all the good food or sunshine in the world.”
“At times, it seemed that sleep was his only refuge, the one place in the world where the dead couldn’t find him.”
“According to an idea that was wide-spread among the Germans and Celts, all wisdom dwelled in the lower world, which is often cited as the source of knowledge and art. This notion goes hand in hand with another idea that maintains that death precedes life. Because death is identical to night and life is identical to day, these peoples counted time in nights rather than days. We can compare this to Scandinavian cosmology: The giant Ymir is the originator of creation. In Nordic mythology, the giants are the keepers of the science of runes, and one of them, Sutting, is the keeper of poetic knowledge. As the world s first inhabitants, they [the giants] knew all its secrets. They thus maintained many close ties with death and the otherworld with, for instance, dwarves and elves.”
“After routinely being awakened during the night with chest pains, I was diagnosed with Nocturnal Angina and prescribed nitroglycerin.”