Midnight Quotes

• Hushed as midnight silence.

  John Dryden

  Silence

  John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “The works of John Dryden,: now first collected in eighteen volumes”, p.42

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• It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.

  Robert E. Howard

  Death, Lonely, Pleasant

  Robert E. Howard (2016). “THE CONAN SAGA: The Complete Epic”, p.48, BookRix

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• The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Moon Night, Noon, Darkness Of Night

  Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.100, Broadview Press

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• Don't worry about yesterday it ended last night at midnight.

  John C. Maxwell

  Night, Yesterday, Worry

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• Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

  Dean Koontz

  Mind, Sometimes, Our Thoughts

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.138, Bantam

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• How beautiful the silent hour, when morning and evening thus sit together, hand in hand, beneath the starless sky of midnight!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Morning, Twilight

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1852). “The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. With Illustrations by John Gilbert”, p.272

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• It starts at midnight.

  Suzanne Collins

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.327, Scholastic Inc.

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• Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

  John Wayne

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Wayne's lost world" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2007.

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• ... people get confidential at midnight.

  Maxine Kumin

  People, Confidential, Confiding

  Maxine Kumin (1974). “The designated heir”, Viking Adult

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• An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

  Bill Vaughan

  New Year, Fun, New Beginnings

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• Ay, on the shores of darkness there is a light, and precipices show untrodden green; there is a budding morrow in midnight; there is triple sight in blindness keen.

  John Keats

  Light, Sight, Darkness

  'To Homer' (written 1818)

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• Dawn is born at midnight.

  Carl Jung

  Dawn, Born

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• Once upon a midnight dreary

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dreary

  "The Raven" l. 1 (1845)

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• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Literature, Weak, Quaint

  "The Raven" l. 1 (1845)

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• Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask...

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Hours

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• Nothing good ever happens after midnight.

  Bo Schembechler

  Happens

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• I'm going to wait til the midnight hour, that's when my love begins to shine.

  Wilson Pickett

  Love Is, Expression, Shining

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• I gaze upon the thousand stars
  That fill the midnight sky;
  And wish, so passionately wish,
  A light like theirs on high.
  I have such eagerness of hope
  To benefit my kind;
  I feel as if immortal power
  Were given to my mind.

  Margaret Landon

  Stars, Light, Sky

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• At midnight tears Run into your ears.

  Louise Bogan

  Running, Tears, Ears

  Louise Bogan (1941). “Poems and new poems”

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  I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Faith, Peace

  "50 years after receiving Nobel Prize, do Martin Luther King's peace prophecies still resonate?", www.foxnews.com. October 12, 2014.

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• Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Best You Ever: 365 Ways to be Richer, Happier, Thinner, Smarter, Younger, Sexier, and More Relaxed - Each and Every Day". Book by Rebecca Swanner (p. 324), October 18, 2010.

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• There is a budding morrow in midnight.

  John Keats

  Inspirational, Life, Persistence

  'To Homer' (written 1818)

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• Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight

  Bob Geldof

  Reading, Tired, The End Of The Day

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• There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.

  John Keats

  Tomorrow

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• One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.

  George Herbert

  Sleep, Three, Hours

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.318

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