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Night Quotes and Sayings

No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.
Llewelyn Powys

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde

No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away.
David Matthew

Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste.
J.K. Rowling

A woman who pretends to laugh at love is like a child who sings at night when he is afraid.

Night has brought to those who sleep, only dreams they can not keep.
Enya quotes

Night has become painful for me. It brings to light the regrets of the day.
Grey Livingston

Though my soul may set in darkness, It will rise in perfect light, I have loved the stars too fondly To be fearful of the night.
Sarah Williams

You know somebody, and they cry for you. They stay awake at night and dream of you. I bet you never even know they do, but somebody’s crying for you.

Since the coming of air pollution and city lights, the stars have become much more shy than they used to be.
Pepper Giardino

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
Vincent van Gogh

Though my soul may set in darkness, It will rise in perfect light, I have loved the stars too fondly To be fearful of the night.
Sarah Williams

The night is bright, with a starlit sky, I sit and think, as time passes by. Oh starry night, with a moonlit sky, take me away, and tell me why. Give me a reason, for love’s end, give me a reason, for why I lost a friend. I sit and think, all night l.

The stars are the street lights of eternity.

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships – the ones that last – are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is… suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
Gillian Anderson

However long the night, the dawn will break.
African Proverb

Dreams permit each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
William Dement

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
Vincent Van Gogh

To seek the breast of darkness and be suckled by the night.
Paul Simon

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Night is the blotting paper for many sorrows.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
Seneca

Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.
Catherine O’Hara

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson

There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.
N.P. Willis

One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.

The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.
Frederic Lawrence Knowles

No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.
Llewelyn Powys

Night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.
Chinese Proverbs

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
Oscar Wilde

Las Vegas looks the way you’d imagine heaven must look at night.
Chuck Palahniuk

Nights are long since you’ve been away, I dream of you all through the day, My Buddy, My Buddy, Nobody’s quite so true.
Walter Donaldson

God’s promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine.
David Nicholas

The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

And there was no reason for them to be dancing the Peter Lake could see, except that it was an exceptionally beautiful night.
Mark Helprin

Live life so completely that when death comes to you like a thief in the night, there will be nothing left for him to steal.

Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night’s repose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
Saul Bellow

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
George Carlin

Most glorious night!
Thou wert not sent for slumber!
Lord Byron, Childe Harold

The night sky is a miracle of infinitude.
Noelani Day

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry

Research is the name given the crystal formed when the night’s worry is added to the day’s sweat.
Martin H. Fischer

What I take from my nights, I add to my days.
Leon de Rotrou

Night is a world lit by itself.
Antonio Porchia, Voces

By night, an atheist half believes in God.
Edward Young

O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray!
Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.
George Eliot

Moonlight is sculpture.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night’s sleep, and you can’t settle anything until morning anyway.
Rose F. Kennedy

No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away.
David Matthew Click

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.
Lucy Maud Montgomery

Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Mine is the night, with all her stars.
Edward Young

What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, ‘This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!’ Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, ‘Never have I heard anything more divine’?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Night is the blotting paper for many sorrows.

Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.
J.K. Rowling

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
Jorge Luis Borges

There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
Joseph Conrad

After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. After every storm, there comes clear, open slies.
Samuel Rutherford

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