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“The blue light of the rising moon fell on the rocks and the scant forest of the taiga, revealing each projecting rock, each tree in a peculiar fashion, different from the way they looked by day. Everything seemed real but different than in the daytime. It was as if the world had a second face, a nocturnal face.”
Octavio Paz“Nocturnal with a love for night, I'd stay up to see sunlight...”
Donna Lynn Hope“Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern forms of nocturnal entertainment we watched the stars. There were practical calendar reasons of course but there was more to it than that. Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years it still takes my breath away.”
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space“Most love stories are nocturnal. That's what makes them so fascinating.”
Raymond Federman, Smiles on Washington Square“A dream is a kind of nocturnal drama to which the only price of admission is falling asleep.”
Henry Gleitman, Psychology“...a redoubtable alchemy was at work behind impenetrable veils as the forest prepared its nocturnal mysteries.”
Julien Gracq“All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton“Oh invade me with your scalding mouth,search me if you like, with your nocturnal eyes,but allow me to sail and sleep upon your name.”
Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets“Most of us accept that although we may believe our dreams to be real events, upon waking, we can tell the difference between nocturnal hallucinations and reality.”
Siri Hustvedt