Quotes About Night

With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night.

I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, -- blown and flared by passion's storm, -- and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains.

It was four in the morning, the hopeless hour when shivering insomniacs inhabit a world of hollow shadow, and existence seems frail and strange.

A misty radiance, through which stars were struggling to twinkle, filled the night sky beyond the tiny window beside him.

This was the hour when he found London most lovable; the working day over, her pub windows were warm and jewel-like, her streets thrummed with life, and the indefatigable permanence of her aged buildings, softened by the street lights, became strangely reassuring.

had been calm and relaxed. Then something changed. A man she had never seen before or since came at night. He was thin and softly spoken and smoked an expensive cigar. He had asked how

There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us.

Cherries of the night are riper Than the cherries pluckt at noon... In the cherry pluckt at night, With the dew of summer swelling, There's a juice of pure delight, Cool, dark, sweet, divinely smelling...

In Buffalo, Buffalo she was praying, the night sticks together like pages in an old book

It is like the keening sound the moon makes sometimes,/rising.

Night makes no difference 'twixt the Priest and Clerk;Joan as my Lady is as good i' the dark.

So when or you or I are madeA fable, song, or fleeting shade,All love, all liking, all delightLies drowned with us in endless night.

Then he recited to the still very groggy Sultan the old Arab proverb, 'He that sleeps one-third of the night has done as well as he that sleeps half the night, and he that sleeps all night will awaken an idiot.

O how praying rests the weary! Prayer will change the night to day; So when life seems dark and dreary, Don't forget to pray.

Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there). – Revelation 21:25

I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work. – John 9:4

Whenever the moon and stars are set,Whenever the wind is high,All night long in the dark and wet,A man goes riding by.Late in the night when the fires are out,Why does he gallop and gallop about?

In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way I have to go to bed by day.

The strangest things are there for me,Both things to eat and things to see,And many frightening sights abroadTill morning in the land of Nod.

Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.

Then morning comes, saying, "This was a night.

One universe, one body...in this urn the animal night sweats of the spirit burn

Keep your voice down!' I warned. 'The house is asleep.' 'Come quick,' he repeated, though in a lower tone. 'And bring gun.' 'Why?

Something was in the air tonight, and whatever it might be, it was keeping sleep at bay.