Midnight Quotes

“She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims...”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening to frogs and crickets. Darkness soothed. It softened the sharp edges of the world, toned down the too-harsh colors. With the coming of twilight, the sky seemed to recede; the universe expanded. The night was bigger than the day, and in its realm, life seemed to have more possibilities.”
― Dean Koontz, Midnight

“All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o’clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.”
― Aberjhani

“Love, be
mystical

as the flickering
blue flame
of night

as the fully-awoken
moon

beneath cobwebs
of passing clouds

amidst chanting
high-tides

fuzzy,
as my blanket

big enough
to illuminate a hundred
thousand billion galaxies

and just small enough to fit
into my embrace.”
― Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence

“It’s a midnight lie... a kind of lie told for someone else’s sake, a lie that sits between goodness and wrong, just as midnight is the moment between night and morning.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie

“People fear anyone who differs from what is considered normal, and in a small town the idea of normal can be as narrow as the streets.”
― Elizabeth Chandler, The Back Door of Midnight

“Maybe life is all about twirling under one of those midnight skies,
cutting a swathe through the breeze
and gently closing your eyes.”
― Sanober Khan

“I'm just an insomniac struggling for a night where I don't dream of you anymore.”
― Lone Alaskan Gypsy

“No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.”
― Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

“No one can remain married today because they are not married to the one they love, they are married to their sacrifice, and pretending to love is too damned painful. Love and build, love and work, love and fight. Always love first. Anything placed before love will fail.”
― Sister Souljah, Midnight and the Meaning of Love

“Don’t you dare come into my world and tell me what color the ocean is! It’s black. Black as midnight. Black and awful!”
― Nadia Scrieva

“Moon in the sky, stars out, the wide-open expanse of nothing: it made him feel free and alive as the daytime never did.”
― Chuck Wendig, Wanderers

“These were always the weirdest trips for me, when it was midnight or even later, and we pulled up to a dark house, trying to be quiet. Like a robbery in reverse, creeping around to leave something rather than take it.”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

“Faust: What cheerful light breaks on my gloomy
fancies,
As in the midnight woods when moonlight
floods the skies?”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust

“I felt like I was riding into infinity, and soon I forgot I existed as the sky surrounded us in a blanket of stars, constellations the texture of slushies, swirling blue and violet and gold. I was swallowed b the universe, riding on a white horse in a midnight dream...”
― Aishabella Sheikh, Entwined

“We go about thinking we have nobody, when in fact; we have the sun, the moon and the stars to look up to.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“At midnight turn back time and you will find that the night is still young enough to enjoy.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“I won't give in to despair while stars are beautiful in the night sky and know we cannot leave here while it is always midnight, and there is only that hope that we grasped and pulled down from these skies. Here where it is midnight we cling to the play of children lining up little tiny drops of joy, small shimmers we hap to wish upon for two blooms in spring, three sparrows to sing to me, and four kisses in the sudden flash of summer.”
― Ruth Ann Oskolkoff, The Bones of the Poor

“He remembered it being a midnight movie, but most hours of the dark feel like midnight when you're seven.”
― Ani Baker, Handsome Vanilla

“I move around hungry, sniffing the moonlight, drifting around the hills, hunting for you, your passionate kisses, like a cougar prowling in the streets at Midnight.”
― Avijeet Das

“Maybe midnight was the hour of answers.”
― Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language

“The color of his hair gave midnight a run for its money, with eyes to match.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo

“The night has so much to offer those who live in their he[art].”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“There is more than enough hope in the night sky than you can find in your troubles.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Midnight people I didn't know.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“There's daylight names and midnight names. Daylight names are safe enough. A spider brings good luck before midnight, but bad luck after. And you look to me like the kind of young man who needs good luck, and to keep out of dark rooms.”
― Joanne Harris, The Moonlight Market

“You choose darkness over light because one is the truth and one is the mask.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“You slip in night because darkness is a type of coldness. A temperature where you feel somewhat safe. By feeling safe, you feel like you. You blend in with the night causing your shades to become temporary enough to expose them.”
― Dominic Riccitello