Nights Alone Quotes

• Some nights, alone, he thinks of her, and some nights, alone, she thinks of him. Some night these thoughts, separated by miles and time zones, occur at the same objective moment, and Ray and Mirabelle are connected without ever knowing it.

  Steve Martin

  Night, Thinking, Time Zones

  Steve Martin (2001). “Shopgirl”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to.

  Stuart Appleby

  Night

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

  Paul Tillich

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Lonely

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• I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you.

  Walt Whitman

  Night, Thinking, Waiting

  Walt Whitman (2011). “Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: "Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus"”, p.92, University of Iowa Press

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• Have you ever been up in your plane at night, alone, somewhere, 20,000 feet above the ocean?... Did you ever hear music up there?... It's the music a man's spirit sings to his heart, when the earth's far away and there isn't any more fear. It's the high, fine, beautiful sound of an earth-bound creature who grew wings and flew up high and looked straight into the face of the future. And caught, just for an instant, the unbelievable vision of a free man in a free world.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Beautiful, Freedom, Ocean

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• One night of love don't make up for six nights alone. But I'd rather have one than none Lord, cause I'm flesh and bone.

  Waylon Jennings

  Honesty, Night, Six

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• The boys and girls are one tonight. They unbutton blouses. They unzip flies. They take off shoes. They turn off the light. The glimmering creatures are full of lies. They are eating each other. They are overfed. At night, alone, I marry the bed.

  Anne Sexton

  Girl, Lying, Boys

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.137, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He shakes his head with a slow smile. You'd better be right. If the phone rings, I'm unpluggining it, I swear to God-“ You'd do that to your five-year-old sister?“ I gasp in mock outrage. For one whole night alone? Jesus, Maya, I'd sell her to the gypsies!

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Jesus, Night, Swear To God

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• As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms’ One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace.

  Anne Rice

  Night, Shadow, Arms

  Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.248, Ballantine Books

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• I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Life, Humor

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• I like to have a massage therapist come to my house, get a massage, take a bath, go to bed. That's a perfect night alone for me.

  Stacy Keibler

  Night, Perfect, House

  "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Stacy Keibler". Esquire Interview, www.esquire.com. March 2, 2011.

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• One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spiritual, Prayer, Night

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 14: Sermons 788 to 847”, p.165, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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