NIGHT QUOTES
quotations about night
The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
EURIPIDES
Iphigenia in Tauris
By night an atheist half believes in God.
EDWARD YOUNG
Night Thoughts
There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
BERN WILLIAMS
attributed, Surrendering to the Music
Night is chaos, the realm of dreams, teeming with ghosts and demons as the oceans teem with fish and sea monsters.
WOLFGANG SCHIVELBUSCH
Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century
Beware of the night, child. All cats are black in the dark.
JEAN GENET
The Blacks
At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour.
H. P. LOVECRAFT
attributed, The Little Black Book of Writers' Wisdom
Night hath a thousand eyes.
JOHN LYLY
Maides Metamorphose
At night we are all strangers, even to ourselves.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
A Farewell to Arms
Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
GOETHE
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Night is the mother of thoughts.
JOHN FLORIO
First Frutes
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
SARAH WILLIAMS
"The Old Astronomer to His Pupil"
The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.
POPPY Z. BRITE
attributed, B is for Balance
Come, civil night,
Thou sober-suited matron, all in black.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Romeo and Juliet
The night
Hath been to me a more familiar face
Than that of man; and in her starry shade
Of dim and solitary loveliness
I learned the language of another world.
LORD BYRON
Manfred
The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Dance Dance Dance
Night, a more perfect day.
ARTHUR SYMONS
"Alla Dogana"
Night kneels at your feet like a gypsy glistening with jewels.
TRACY K. SMITH
"Speed of Belief"
Night, when words fade and things come alive.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY
Flight to Arras
We wait all day
For night to come
And it comes like a hunter
U2
"Red Hill Mining Town"