Nocturnal Quotes

• All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Sunset, Bad Ass

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• Here in this moment we are beautiful, nocturnal creatures and our thoughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon.

  Henry Rollins

  Beautiful, Moon, Jewels

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.311, Villard

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• What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

  Manuel Puig

  Dream, Synthesis, Simplify

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• Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Eye, Moon

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• I'm nocturnal when it comes to recording - I'm just more creative at night.

  Big Boi

  Night, Creative

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can't sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Sleep, Night, Tvs

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• It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love Life, Ideas, Meditation

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• Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.

  Anthony Trollope

  Wisdom, Drinking, Age

  Anthony Trollope (185?). “Phineas Redux”, p.154

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• Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern forms of nocturnal entertainment we watched the stars. There were practical calendar reasons of course but there was more to it than that. Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years it still takes my breath away.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Night, Light

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• Most love stories are nocturnal. That's what makes them so fascinating.

  Raymond Federman

  Night, Stories, Love Story

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• Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Night, Journey, Time Zones

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.196, Verso

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• As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Light, Police, Publicity

  The Conduct of Life "Worship" (1860)

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• Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life

  Irwin Shaw

  Writing, Finding Yourself, Literature

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• When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Lying, Eye

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• With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Dark, Silence, Soul

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• So great is the economy of nature, that most flowers which are fertilised by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odour chiefly or exclusively in the evening.

  Charles Darwin

  Nature, Flower, Smell

  "The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom".

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• My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.

  Nigel Dennis

  Shy, Firsts, Serious

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• Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years it still takes my breath away.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Night, Years

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.120, Ballantine Books

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• I've hidden behind my hair more than clothes. Sometimes having long hair with a fringe is very useful when you don't want to look at people. I used to have very short hair, but long hair is my thing - a black nocturnal shield.

  Bat for Lashes

  Clothes, Hair, Long

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All architecture is great architecture after sunset.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sunset, Architecture, Fireworks

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• You’re not a morning person, are you? (Simone) I’m a Dream-Hunter/demon. By my very nature I’m nocturnal. That big yellow ball in the sky offends me to the very core of my being. (Xypher)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dream, Morning, Sky

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Dream Chaser: Number 14 in series”, p.60, Hachette UK

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• Love is a war of lightning,
  and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.
  Kiss by kiss I cover your tiny infinity,
  your margins, your rivers, your diminutive villages,
  and a genital fire, transformed by delight,
  slips through the narrow channels of blood
  to precipitate a nocturnal carnation,
  to be, and be nothing but light in the dark.

  Pablo Neruda

  War, Dark, Kissing

  Pablo Neruda, “‘carnal Apple, Woman Filled, Burning Moon,’”

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• Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents; what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a house.

  Jean Cocteau

  Clouds, Aquariums, Water

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• If there's a lot of fear that's going on, if there's a lot of anxiety, it's manifesting itself in your nocturnal world so that analyzing it can help open up basically thoughts about what you need to do during the day. So a lot of people who subscribe to the psychoanalysis, the Jungian thought will really focus a lot on dreams, the meaning, and how it can be used to help you during the day.

  Shelby Harris

  Dream, People, Focus

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Premie'  re approximation: j'e  cris pour de  truire, en les de  crivant avec pre  cision, des monstres nocturnes qui menacent d'envahir ma vie e  veille  e. First general point: I write to destroy, by describing exactly the nocturnal monsters that threaten to invade my waking life.

  Alain Robbe-Grillet

  Writing, Monsters, Waking Life

  1984 LeMiroir qui revient.

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