Quotes on night
It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.
Hugo, Victor
What I take from my nights, I add to my days.
Rotrou, Leon de
No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.
Powys, Llewelyn
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
Maugham, Somerset
It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.
Snicket, Lemony
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.
Beston, Henry
Channels are blocked in the mind, from the day. Lie down in blackness of night, forgotten remnants rush to the mind, or creeping slowly appear in the dreams.
LeTonnerre, Nathaniel
Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.
Rowling, J.K.
In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.
Twain, Mark
Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.
Montgomery, Lucy Maud
How long the night seems to one kept awake by pain.
Saurin, Bernard Joseph
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
Gogh, Vincent Van
Since the coming of air pollution and city lights, the stars have become much more shy than they used to be.
Giardino, Pepper
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.
Borges, Jorge Luis
Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.
O'Hara, Catherine
Moonlight is sculpture.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel