“Night always had been, and always would be, and night was all.”

“They walked as it were in a black vapour wrought of veritable darkness itself that, as it was breathed, brought blindness not only to eyes but to the mind, so that even the memory of colours and of forms and of any light faded out of thought. Night had always been, and always would be, and night was all.”

“It was not really Saturday night, at least it may have been, for they had long lost count of the days; but always if they wanted to do anything special they said this was Saturday night, and then they did it.”

“The worst things always happen at night, and oftener than one would think on stormy nights. ("The Compensation House")”

“Night never had the last word. The dawn is always invincible.”

“I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be”