Night Quotes

“Memory and time, both immaterial, are rivers with no banks and constantly merging. Both escape our will, though we depend on them. Measured but measured by whom or by what? The one is inside, the other, outside or so it seems, but is that true? Time seems also buried deep in us but where? Memory is right here, in the head, but it can exit, abandon that head, leave it behind, disappear. Memory, a sanctuary of infinite patience.”
― Etel Adnan, Night

“Dear soul,
am I only because I have been?”
― Etel Adnan, Night

“Eternity is non evident. There’s this endless rotation of the
sun in the skull, the stillness outside, and a storm within.
At least a river is always flowing in some part of the country.
Winds, always gathering speed, shatter the order of things.
We return home, in tears.”
― Etel Adnan, Night

“Words melt in reflections; that’s why there’s a uselessness to
this night, to my missing the river, to the delaying of love...
light is picking up momentum in the vicinity of the oaks that
cover this property, this silence.”
― Etel Adnan, Night

“My breathing is a tide. Love doesn’t die.”
― Etel Adnan, Night