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Quotes About Night

The stars look very cold about the sky, and I have many miles on foot to fare.
~ John Keats
O soft embalmer of the still midnight
~ John Keats
Hey! All you peoples draggin along here. Stop and come stick your ass on a Night of Joy stool, he started again. Night of Joy got genuine color peoples workin below the minimal wage. Whoa! Guarantee plantation atmosphere, got cotton growin right on the stage right in front your eyeball, got a civil right worker gettin his ass beat up between show. Hey!
~ John Kennedy Toole
Me pareció que era una bonita plegaria, así que miré a través de la ventana y empecé a rezar, pero mi mirada tropezó con la Biblia de neón, allá abajo, y no pude continuar. Entonces vi que las estrellas del cielo resplandecían con la hermosa plegaria y empecé de nuevo, recé sin pensar siquiera y ofrecí la oración a las estrellas y al cielo nocturno.
~ John Kennedy Toole
Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice. And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
~ John Kennedy Toole
Someone made a long speech listing every infraction of the rules we were committing that night. Someone else made a speech showing how by careful planning we could break all the others before dawn.
~ John Knowles
Until now, in spite of everything, I had welcomed each new day as though it were a new life, where all past failures and problems were erased, and all future possibilities and joys open and available, to be achieved probably before night fell again. Now, in this winter of snow and crutches with Phineas, I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of the night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn't make yourself over between dawn and dusk.
~ John Knowles
I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.
~ John Lennon
And that must end us, that must be our cure: To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish, rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night Devoid of sense and motion?
~ John Milton
Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.
~ Alberto Manguel
I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience
~ Dave Brubeck
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night.
~ Bruce Springsteen
Show a little faith there is magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright, and that's alright with me.
~ Bruce Springsteen
It is at night that faith in light is admirable.
~ Edmond Rostand
All is well, tho' faith and form Be sunder'd in the night of fear.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.
~ Wendell Berry
Death is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The same girl who smiles and talks non-stop, is the same one who cries herself to sleep at night.
~ Unknown
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
~ Unknown
Waiting for your love is like sun shine at night.
~ Unknown
Every night I go to sleep. I think about you and how much I love you.
~ Unknown
Last night, I looked up into the stars and matched each one with a reason why I love you. I was doing great until I ran out of stars.
~ Unknown
Trouble may endure in the night but joy comes in the morning
~ Unknown
In the stories, the gods have the power to delay the moon's course if they wish, to spin a single night the length of many.
~ Madeline Miller