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Quotes About Night

Spring had been the season for dying in the old days. Invalids who had struggled through the dark comfort of winter took fright as the night receded.
~ Mavis Gallant
Lady Moon rose an' gazed o'er my busted'n'beautsome Valleys with silv'ry'n'sorryin' eyes, an' the dingos mourned for the died uns.
~ David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Welcome to vampire-ville." He chuckled.
~ Unknown
Night can't cloak your scarlet dream. Accept Desire's call.
~ P. C. Cast
Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, You moonshine revellers, and shades of night, You orphan heirs of fixed destiny, Attend your office and your quality.
~ William Shakespeare
Sometimes, when I wake up at night, I feel invisible hands weaving my destiny.
~ Fernando Pessoa
A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same with the destiny we create for ourselves in this world.
~ Gautama Buddha
Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of the night.
~ Unknown
Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of night.
~ Unknown
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
~ E. M. Forster
I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.
~ N. Scott Momaday
I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.
~ Tim Burton
I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.
~ Roy Orbison
In sleep, when fancy is let loose to play, Our dreams repeat the wishes of the day.
~ Claudius Claudianus
If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around. This is where they are made.
~ Brian Selznick
Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him.
~ Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Sweet dreams though the guns are booming.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
~ Cormac McCarthy, The Road
I will steal your dreams tonight. Dark
~ Yukiru Sugisaki
Come with me while the moon is on the sea The night is young and so are we Dreams come true in Blue Hawaii And mine could all come true This magic night of nights with you
~ Leo Robin
Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace.
~ Leigh Hunt
By night, beloved, tie your heart to mineand let them both in dreams defeat the darkness
~ Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
I was through with sleep. I didn't like what it brought me.
~ Unknown
I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.
~ Virginia Woolf, The Waves