Famous quotes containing the word nights:
“The style, which is something I take to heart, is getting on my nerves horribly. It frustrates and torments me. I have days when I am sick about it and nights when it gives me a fever. The more I go at it the more I find myself incapable of conveying the Idea.”
—Gustave Flaubert (18211880)
“It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies.... Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our minds habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most illuminated moments are.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)