NIGHT QUOTES

quotations about night

Night quote

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

EURIPIDES

Iphigenia in Tauris

Tags: Euripides


By night an atheist half believes in God.

EDWARD YOUNG

Night Thoughts

Tags: Edward Young


There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

BERN WILLIAMS

attributed, Surrendering to the Music


Night is chaos, the realm of dreams, teeming with ghosts and demons as the oceans teem with fish and sea monsters.

WOLFGANG SCHIVELBUSCH

Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century


At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour.

H. P. LOVECRAFT

attributed, The Little Black Book of Writers' Wisdom

Tags: H. P. Lovecraft


Night hath a thousand eyes.

JOHN LYLY

Maides Metamorphose

Tags: John Lyly


Beware of the night, child. All cats are black in the dark.

JEAN GENET

The Blacks

Tags: Jean Genet


At night we are all strangers, even to ourselves.

ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Tags: Alexander McCall Smith


Night is the other half of life, and the better half.

GOETHE

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

Tags: Goethe


The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

A Farewell to Arms

Tags: Ernest Hemingway


Night is the mother of thoughts.

JOHN FLORIO

First Frutes

Tags: John Florio


I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

SARAH WILLIAMS

"The Old Astronomer to His Pupil"


The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.

POPPY Z. BRITE

attributed, B is for Balance


Come, civil night,
Thou sober-suited matron, all in black.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Romeo and Juliet

Tags: William Shakespeare


Night, a more perfect day.

ARTHUR SYMONS

"Alla Dogana"

Tags: Arthur Symons


The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.

HARUKI MURAKAMI

Dance Dance Dance

Tags: Haruki Murakami


The night
Hath been to me a more familiar face
Than that of man; and in her starry shade
Of dim and solitary loveliness
I learned the language of another world.

LORD BYRON

Manfred

Tags: Lord Byron


Night kneels at your feet like a gypsy glistening with jewels.

TRACY K. SMITH

"Speed of Belief"

Tags: Tracy K. Smith


Night, when words fade and things come alive.

ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY

Flight to Arras


We wait all day
For night to come
And it comes like a hunter

U2

"Red Hill Mining Town"

Tags: U2