J. Cole
Rapper, songwriter
"If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five."
Midnight quotes
Midnight
161 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher, Theologian
"Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask..."
Edgar Allan Poe
Poet, Writer
"Once upon a midnight dreary"
Erma Bombeck
Humorist, Writer
"A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn't charge more after midnight - or anything before midnight."
Samuel Beckett
Playwright, Novelist
"Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining."
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"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary."
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"The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone."
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"Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?"
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"What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow."
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"What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's all."
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"We stand in life at midnight; we are always at the threshold of a new dawn."
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"Dawn is born at midnight."
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"The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places."
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"Nobody likes a clown at midnight"
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""Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said."
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"There is a budding tomorrow in midnight."
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"...Ere midnight’s frown and morning’s smile, ere thou and peace may meet."
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"I must confess that waltzes do not move me, I guess I hummed the blues too early, and spent too many midnights out wailing to the rain."
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"Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon."
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"Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe, even in sleep."
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"There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son."
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"To go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes"
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"In the midnight hour I can feel your power..."
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"I was a hip kid. When I saw Bambi it was the midnight show."
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"Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe!"
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