Night Quotes

My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends, It gives a lovely light.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.

Philip Gulley

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale were I a swan, the part of a swan.

Epictetus

In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.

Albert Camus

Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2

Your problems and mine, they are nothing new. They are all just another small part of the generic nightmare.

Lewis Ward

Houston has its largest crowd of the night here this evening.

Jerry Coleman

If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night.

Dicky Barrett

Daylight, in my mind, the night faded.

Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

Charles Baudelaire

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

William Dement

What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time.

Crowfoot

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

Jefferson Davis

It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures, life may perfect be.

Benjamin Johnson

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

Edgar Allan Poe

The man who does not learn is dark, like one walking in the night.

Chinese Prove

If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet - Scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal - - That is your success.

Henry David Thoreau

To be nobody - But - Yourself - - In a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - - Means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

E e cummings

Weather forcast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.

George Carlin

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

Marilyn Vos Savant

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow - - You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dreamYet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less goneAll that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.

Henri Poincare

This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Seneca

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

Herb Caen

Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.

Hermione Gingold

I had a dream last night that a hamburger was eating ME!

Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld episode "The Van Buren Boys" - Broadcast on February 6, 1997

The gates of Hell are open night and day Smooth the descent, and easy is the way But, to return, and view the cheerful skies In this, the task and mighty labor lies.

John Dryden

I think wholeness comes from living your life consciously during the day and then exploring your inner life or unconscious at night.

Margery Cuyle

It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

Benjamin Johnson

At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.

Martin Luthe

Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffered Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night - She was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question - Is this all.

Betty Naomi Friedan

Charlie Dad, how can you hate The Colonel Stuart Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly, smartass.

So I Married an Axe Murdere

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

T. E. Lawrence

I bet what happened was, they discovered fire and invented the wheel on the same day. Then, that night, they burned the wheel.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

Wallace Stevens