Quotes About Night

I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It

The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.

I rejoice that there are owls.

Twelve times did the iron register of time beat on the sonorous bell-metal, summoning the ghosts to rise, and walk their nightly round. - In plainer language, it was twelve o'clock...

an hour at which (as it was now mid-winter) the dirty fingers of Night would have drawn her sable curtain over the universe, had not the moon forbid her, who now, with a face as broad and as red as those of some jolly mortals, who, like her, turn night into day, began to rise from her bed, where she had slumbered away the day, in order to sit up all night.

A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can't see--that's my idea of happiness.

in the August night and the perspective of Beacon

Oscura como la media noche dentro de su vestido negro, su desfigurada belleza y su indecible aflicción

The houses were dark in the August night and the perspective of Beacon Street, with its double chain of lamps

Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown...

Naktis kybojo virš žem?s, aštri kaip durklas, girta kaip pamiš?l?.

What is this chaff we chew in our sleep if it is not the remembrance of fang-whorl and star cluster.

Oro es una palabra nocturna correspondiente a la mente crónica: en ella hay sueño y mito.

Ninguna luna plateará nunca su apatía.

Out of nothingness arises the sign of infinity; beneath the ever-rising spirals slowly sinks the gaping hole. The land and the water make numbers joined, a poem written with flesh and stronger than steel or granite. Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown…

Oh, well, these are night thoughts produced by walking in the rain after two thousand years of Christianity. At least now the birds are well provided for, and the cats and dogs. Every time I pass the concierge's window and catch the full icy impact of her glance I have an insane desire to throttle all the birds in creation. At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love—just enough to feed the birds.

but it was night and the night is always less cruel than the day.

For you yourselves know that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. 1 Thessalonians 5:2

SCENE I Night, in the garden of NAAMAN at Damascus. At the left, on a slightly raised terrace, the palace, with softly gleaming lights and music coming from the open latticed windows.

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Look, then, into thine heart, and write! Yes, into Life's deep stream! All forms of sorrow and delight, All solemn Voices of the Night, That can soothe thee, or affright, - Be these henceforth thy theme. (excerpt from Voices of the Night)

The nearer the dawn, the darker the night

I felt her presence, by its spell of might,      Stoop o'er me from above; The calm, majestic presence of the Night,      As of the one I love.

The title Voices of the Night originally was used by Mr. Longfellow for the poem Footsteps of Angels; then he gave it to the first collected volume of his poetry with special application to the group of eight poems following Prelude. Here it is confined to this group.