Giacomo Puccini Quotes

Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.

Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death.

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight.

This is night, Diddykins. That's what we call it when it goes all dark like this.

The first thing he noticed was how quiet it was. This was nothing like the kind of quiet he heard when he woke up in the middle of the night after a bad dream. When that happened, there were always strange, unidentifiable sounds seeping into his room from the tiny gaps where the windowpanes weren't sealed together correctly. At those moments he could always tell there was life outside, even if all that life was fast asleep. It was a silence that wasn't silence at all.

Go and lie down in the dark... for hours... and don't move. I'm locking the door now

Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!

I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.

Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. Like smoke from an unseen fire, a line of fire just below the horizon, brushfire or a burning city. Maybe night falls because it’s heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes. Wool blanket.

Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.

A great cause of the night is lack of the sun.

I'm tired and I want to rest; I want to get out of this and go lie down somewhere, off where it's dark and no one speaks. Forever.

The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose.

The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

The night will close the door & fasten my anchor within the veil and I shall go away to sleep.

Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.

The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth.

There was no wind; there was no passing shadow on the deep shade of the night; there was no noise. The city lay behind him, lighted here and there, and starry worlds were hidden by the masonry of spire and roof that hardly made out any shapes against the sky. Dark and lonely distance lay around him everywhere, and the clocks were faintly striking two.

Midnight, and the kitties are sleeping.

One must use the night.

Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness.