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Quotes About Night

Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise you will seek truth during the night, and your soul will stay hungry. Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction and gloom, will disturb you in the night.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
And even in woman's conscious love, there is still always surprise and lightning and night, along with the light.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Hunger attacks me, said Zarathustra, like a robber. Among forests and swamps my hunger attacks me, and late in the night.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Thereafter Zarathustra went on again for two hours, trusting to the path and the light of the stars:
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
My Mrs. Willis thinks the skyscrapers are out to get her. At night they make themselves still skinnier, she says, and come sneaking down the streets after her.
~ Fritz Leiber
But sleep was busy elsewhere
~ Gail Carson Levine
Lantern-shine, dim but kind— No starkness in darkness— Even I please the eye. Outside, wind and rain, Weather's fitful wax and wane. Tomorrow's sun will reveal What night conceals. All we lack, regret, know, Forgotten in lamp-oil glow.
~ Gail Carson Levine
After two stories, I blew out my light. The night was clear. My ceiling was the sky and an eyelash of the moon. By shifting from side to side, I made my hammock swing me into sleep.
~ Gail Carson Levine
I've grown to fond of the stars to be fearful of the night.
~ Galileo
the nights were dark and full of terrors
~ Gardner Dozois
'Falling Skies' was mostly night work in winter in Toronto. It was cold and wet, and we were filthy.
~ Noah Wyle
Here's how much I know about hockey. Mike Royko and I were in a tiny bar one winter night, and the radio kept reporting goals by the Blackhawks. I mentioned how frequently the team was scoring. 'You're listening to the highlights,' Royko observed.
~ Roger Ebert
Originally developed in Germany in the 18th Century, ice wine is made from grapes that have been left on the vines until deep winter when the fruits, frozen by ice, contain more concentrated sugar. Only then are they are harvested, sometimes at night.
~ Carol Drinkwater
I know 'Hallelujah' isn't actually a Christmas song, but it has that cozy, haunting vibe that sounds like a winter's night and belongs by a fire.
~ Bonnie McKee
We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.
~ Philip Gilbert Hamerton
For watching sports, I tend to drink Guinness; early evenings always begin well with a Grey Goose and tonic with plenty of lime; and on a cold winter's night, there's nothing quite like a glass of Black Maple Hill... an absolute peach of a bourbon.
~ Martin Bashir
I'm that person who takes a makeup wipe at the end of the night to take all my makeup off. I don't sleep in makeup; I think it's so bad.
~ Ariel Winter
I remember attaching a wire clothing hanger to the antenna of my radio in my bedroom, so I could get the frequency and get that station and listen to the top 10 every night.
~ Nelly Furtado
During the day, I don't read too much of the blog traffic, but then at night, I read transcripts of all of the network packages, and then I watch the wires and some of the political blogs.
~ Nicolle Wallace
Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick.
~ Mariano Rivera
The future is in our power. Let us, then, each morning, resolve to send the day into eternity in such a garb as we shall wish it to wear forever. And at night, let us reflect that one more day is irrevocably gone, indelibly marked.
~ Adoniram Judson
I prepared my intervention the night before I spoke. As it happened, there were about 44 cardinals who wished to speak but could not because there was not enough time. I was one of the last to speak.
~ Godfried Danneels
I've never been one for late nights, which is why I have always preferred making films to theatre. A play takes over your life: you start to feel sick at lunchtime, and by mid-afternoon, you're wishing for a bomb scare so the whole thing will be called off. Of course, if the evening goes well and you get the applause, then it's wonderful.
~ Charles Dance
I'm a witch, I'm up all night, this is no joke.
~ Gemma Collins