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  • Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Death Quotes , Night Quotes
  • When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Night Quotes , People Quotes
  • There they lay, but not in the forgetfulness of the previous night. She was seeking and he was seeking, they raged and contorted their faces and bored their heads into each others bosom in the urgency of seeking something, and their embraces and their tossing limbs did not avail to make them forget, but only reminded them of what they sought
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Night Quotes , Bored Quotes
  • in the newspapers I read a biography about an American. He left his whole huge fortune to factories and for the positive sciences, his skeleton to the students at the academy there, and his skin to make a drum so as to have the American national anthem drummed on it day and night.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Night Quotes , Skeletons Quotes
  • To be in love- where scorn is bought with groans, Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirth With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights; If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain; If lost, why then a grievous labour won; However, but a folly bought with wit, Or else a wit by folly vanquished.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Heart Quotes , Night Quotes
  • I died for beauty but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed? "For beauty," I replied. "And I for truth, the two are one; We brethren are," he said. And so, as kinsmen met a night, We talked between the rooms, Until the moss had reached our lips, And covered up our names.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Night Quotes , Covered Up Quotes
  • One may come armoured, Invinsible. His will immobile meets the mobile hour. The world blows cannot bend this Victor Head. Calm and sure are his steps in the growing night. The goal recedes, he hurries not his pace. He asks from no help from the inferior Gods. His eyes are fixed on the immutable aim.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Sri Aurobindo Quotes , Eye Quotes , Night Quotes
  • Doing is very good, but that comes from thinking. Little manifestations of energy through the muscles are called work. But where there is no thought, there will be no work. Fill the brain, therefore, with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Night Quotes , Thinking Quotes