Long Nights Quotes - Page 2

• When my shoes are killing me, I take a maxi pad and put it in the bottom of my shoe. It is better than any Dr. Scholl's insert. That fashion tip has saved me through some long nights.

  Hoda Kotb

  Fashion, Night, Shoes

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• For I could not read or speak and on the long nights I could not turn the moon off or count the lights of cars across the ceiling.

  Anne Sexton

  Moon, Night, Light

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.220, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Night, Light

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• You, God, who live next door - If at times, through the long night, I trouble you with my urgent knocking - this is why: I hear you breathe so seldom. I know you're all alone in that room. If you should be thirsty, there's no one to get you a glass of water. I wait listening, always. Just give me a sign! I'm right here... Sen komşu tanrı, Uzun geceler bazen, Kapına vura vura uyandırıyorsam seni Solumanı seyrek duyduğumdandır... Bilirim, yalnızsın odanda. Sana birşey gerekse kimse yok, Bir yudum su versin aradığında. Hep dinlerim, yeter ki bir ses edin, Öyle yakınım sana.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Night, Glasses, Doors

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• As the water pounded on my back, I reflected that I must be pretty simple. It didn't take much to make me happy. A long night with a dead guy had done the trick.

  Charlaine Harris

  Simple, Night, Water

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.871, Penguin

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• Mine the long night The secret place Where lovers meet In long embrace In purple dark In silvered kiss Forget the world And grasp your bliss

  A. S. Byatt

  Dark, Kissing, Night

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• Shut up, me" Leo said out loud. "What?" Piper asked. "Nothing," he said. "Long night. I think I'm hallucinating. It's cool.

  Rick Riordan

  Night, Thinking, Long

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• Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Religious, Lying

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.516, Da Capo Press

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• Luck means the hardships and privations which you have not hesitated to endure, the long nights you have devoted to work. Luck means the appointments you have never failed to keep; the trains you have never failed to catch.

  Max O'Rell

  Work, Failure, Mean

  Max O'Rell (1902). “'Tween You An' I: Some Little Problems of Life”

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• Her suffering ended with the day, Yet lived she at its close, And breathed the long, long night away In statue-like repose.

  James Aldrich

  Life, Night, Long

  James Aldrich, “A Death-Bed”

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• As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Powerful, Self Esteem, Night

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2016). “MLK on "The Other America" and "Black Power"”, p.15, Beacon Press

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• Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.

  Elie Wiesel

  Night, Long, Holocaust

  Night ch. 3 (1960)

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• I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.

  Ray Kroc

  Night, Years, Long

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• Shut up, me,” Leo said aloud. “What?” Piper asked. “Nothing,” he said. “Long night. I think I’m hallucinating. It’s cool.” Sitting in front, Leo couldn’t see their faces, but he assumed from their silence that his friends were not pleased to have a sleepless, hallucinating dragon driver. “Just joking.” Leo decided it might be good to change the subject.

  Rick Riordan

  Night, Thinking, Dragons

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• Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear? Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the long night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children are born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt and hungry, and the white walkers move through the woods

  George R. R. Martin

  Summer, Sweet, Children

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.210, Bantam

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• You have to be very deep to be dead, he thought, and I'm not. He began to have some concept of forever, and his mind shivered as his body had when he had wakened in the cold nights and thrust his hands between his thighs to keep warm. It will be a long night, he thought.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Night, Hands, Long

  Peter S Beagle (2007). “A Fine & Private Place”, p.23, Tachyon Publications

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• Well, I believe she went in to rescue some Raggers from the pits,” Cuffs said. “She wasn’t all that specific.” “She went in to rescue — why would she do that?” Amon gripped the ironwork, studying the streetlord’s face. Was he lying? And if so, what was the purpose? “Guess she’s kind of taken with us,” Cuffs said. “You know, the glamor of the gang life and all. Getting beat up every other day, arrested for crimes you didn’t commit, long nights in gaol, sleeping in the cold and wet. It’s...seductive.” He raised an eyebrow.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Lying, Believe, Taken

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• I don't know about you, but I have to sleep. I had a long night and I'm exhausted." She was rather tired, too. But as she slid her gaze to the fake leather sofa, she realized it would never fit both of them. Hunter grinned at her. "You take the couch, I'll sleep on the floor." "Can you do that?" "I've slept in worse places." "Yeah, but don't you need a coffin?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Tired, Sleep, Night

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Night Pleasures”, p.52, Macmillan

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• Are you hurting anywhere else?" I asked, feeling so emotionally raw after the long night we'd had. He caught my wrist and pulled my hand down to press flat over his heart. "Here." "So am I." He kissed my fingertips, then linked our hands and led me.

  Sylvia Day

  Hurt, Heart, Night

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• I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

  Henry Miller

  Night, Mushrooms, Roots

  Henry Miller (2007). “Black Spring”, p.24, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The long nights that Pier Giorgio Frassati spent on his knees in front of the Blessed Sacrament had something to do with the long days spent in service of the poor.

  Robert Barron

  Blessed, Night, Long

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• The Arctic is a highway. The tree limit, the scarcity of trees, freed people to walk. Particularly in the wintertime. Which connected people physically, communicatively. And mythically. The long nights of winter free people to tell. And to listen.

  Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa

  Winter, Night, Long

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• How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ; And how with the longest day enjoy!

  Tibullus

  Night, Long, Thee

  Tibullus, Gerard Van der Gucht (1720). “The Works of Tibullus: Containing His Four Books of Love Elegies”, p.199

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• The Novelist As Teacher”: “I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no more than teach my readers that their past – with all its imperfections – was not one long night of savagery from which the first Europeans acting on God’s behalf delivered them.

  Chinua Achebe

  Teacher, Past, Night

  Chinua Achebe (2009). “Things Fall Apart: Authoritative Text, Contexts and Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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