"...when the moon, which was full and bright (for the night was fine), came in her course to that space in the sky opposite my casement, and looked in at me through the unveiled panes, her glorious gaze roused me."
- Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre ... See MoreSee Less

"The street was very narrow, and the houses were very tall, and the sky was a very small and very dark strip above."
- Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend ... See MoreSee Less

"Darkness, obscurity, and confusion, are the great sources of the sublime."
- Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful ... See MoreSee Less

"The sky was a bruised red shot with black, almost exactly the colors of a tattoo. Sunset had but two minutes left to live."
- Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes ... See MoreSee Less

"The rays of the gas-lamps, feeble at first in their struggle with the dying day, had now at length gained ascendancy, and threw over every thing a fitful and garish lustre."
- Edgar Allan Poe, The Man of the Crowd ... See MoreSee Less

"I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain - and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light."
- Robert Frost, Acquainted with the Night ... See MoreSee Less

"There is a romance about all who are abroad in the black hours, and with something of a thrill we try to guess their business."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

Who stayed up? It was light when I went to bed! ... See MoreSee Less

"What we do in life echoes in eternity."
- Gladiator

Come on Scotland! ... See MoreSee Less

"The street becomes a dwelling for the flâneur; he is as much at home among the facades of houses as a citizen is in his four walls."
- Walter Benjamin, Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism ... See MoreSee Less

A very occasional - and possibly last - reminder about the Dark Edinburgh book. I'm told the hardbacks of the second printing are almost gone and there won't be any more. Link in comments. ... See MoreSee Less

"I think we are in rats’ alley
Where the dead men lost their bones."
- T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land ... See MoreSee Less

"The night is the half of life, and the better half."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship ... See MoreSee Less

"Grace appears most purely in that human form which either has no consciousness or an infinite consciousness."
- Heinrich von Kleist, On the Marionette Theatre ... See MoreSee Less

"Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?"
- The Matrix ... See MoreSee Less

"There is no stone in the street and no brick in the wall that is not actually a deliberate monument - a message from some man, as much as if it were a telegram or a post-card."
- G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles ... See MoreSee Less