James Montgomery Quotes

All I've ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night.

The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.

Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

Most of us, myself included, have forgotten what real darkness is like. We live in a world where light is inescapable. It comes from street lamps, headlights, security floodlights, and even the faint glow of our alarm clocks.

Tomorrow comes after the dark

Why is it called 'after dark' when it really is 'after light'?

The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It's easy to forget that when you're indoors, protected by light and solid walls.

I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.

I was built with a love of the night and the unquiet coffin.

The sun was set; the night came on apace, And falling dews bewet around the place; The bat takes airy rounds on leathern wings, And the hoarse owl his woeful dirges sings.

That's Venus, September thought. She was the goddess of love. It's nice that love comes on first thing in the evening, and goes out last in the morning. Love keeps the light on all night.

Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black intensity to the night it denies, which lights up the night from the inside, from top to bottom, yet owes to the dark the stark clarity of its manifestation, its harrowing and poised singularity.

Watching him, I thought, not for the first time that night, that maybe it should have felt strange to be with him, here, now. And yet it didn’t, at all. That was one of the things about the night. Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn’t so much once you passed a certain hour. It was like the dark just evened it all out somehow.

If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.

Confidence has brought them out into the light, but they seem to have forgotten - light's no good for creatures of the night.

They hammered on the outer gate and called, but there was at first no answer; and then to their surprise someone blew a horn, and the lights in the windows went out. A voice shouted in the dark: 'Who's that? Be off! You can't come in. Can't you read the notice: No admittance between sundown and sunrise?' 'Of course we can't read the notice in the dark,' Sam shouted back. 'And if hobbits of the Shire are to be kept out in the wet on a night like this, I'll tear down your notice when I find it.

There is something haunting in the light of the moon.

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

Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that.

The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.

Some nights stay up till dawn, as the moon sometimes does for the sun. Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way of a well, then lifted out into light.

For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.

Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking; Knowing God's own time is best, In a patient hope I rest For the full day-breaking!

Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the Dark.

I’ve always felt that night doesn’t fall. Night rises.