Night Quotes

Black as night and as beautiful as forever.

Stephen King

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

Night is the mother of counsels.

George Herbert

The Night in Isla Negra

Pablo Neruda

Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.

Leigh Hunt

Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of day: glimmered faintly in the sky. The objects which had looked dim and terrible in the darkness, grew more and more defined, and gradually resolved into their familiar shapes. The rain came down, thick and fast; and pattered, noisily, among the leafless bushes.

Charles Dickens

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

Virginia Woolf

This is night, Diddykins. That's what we call it when it goes all dark like this.

J.K. Rowling

To go to bed at night in Madrid marks you as a little queer. For a long time your friends will be a little uncomfortable about it. Nobody goes to bed in Madrid until they have killed the night. Appointments with a friend are habitually made for after midnight at the cafe.

Ernest Hemingway

Shadow owes its birth to light.

John Gay

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

Djuna Barnes

... going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.

John Green

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

Samuel Johnson

And the night shall be filled with music, and the cares, that infest the day, shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, and as silently steal away.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

O comfort-killing night, image of hell, dim register and notary of shame, black stage for tragedies and murders fell, vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!

William Shakespeare

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 SaintExupery

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

Ovid

Shadows fall on even the brightest hours.

Bryan Waller Proctor

Press close bare-bosomed night -- press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! mad naked summer night.

Walt Whitman