Night Quotes

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

Margery Cuyle

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.

Eudora Welty

I want to live my life so that my nights are full of regrets.

Fitzgerald

to be yourself in a world that is doing its best, day and night to make you like everybody else - - Is to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight.

E. e. cummings

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Abraham Lincoln

Last night I dreamed I ate a ten - Pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.

Tommy Coope

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

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Dicky Barrett

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday.

Unknown, Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown)

That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.

Marvin, _Life, the Universe, and Everything_ by Douglas Adams

No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.

H. L. Mencken

Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers Love, nightmare - Like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers.

William S. Gilbert

Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.

Marion Howard

The gates of hell are open, night and day Smooth the descent, and easy the way.

Virgil

It was a dark and stormy night the rain fell in torrents - - Except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets for it is in London that our scene lies, rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

William Shakespeare

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.

Mother Theresa

To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

Sir Walter Scott

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

There never was night that had no morn.

Dinah Mulock Craik

Ya know, if you treated every comic the way you treated me tonight. You would never see a bad show.

Buddy Hackett

A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.

Jim Sorensen

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

George Orwell

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

Steve Martin

Goodnight.

Lord Byron, last words

The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (by Karl Marx)

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952

What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Crowfoot

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

How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm I thank thee, night for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.

Lord Byron

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

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

Philip Gulley

When he stood up, it was a very complicated motion. If the deck chairs on the Ship to the Sea of Night had opened up, they would have done so like that. It was like he was unfolding himself forever.

Neil Gaiman, Good Omens

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

Marilyn Vos Savant

Eric Draven Jesus Christ Stop me if you heard this one Jesus Christ walks into a hotel. He hands the innkeeper three nails, and he asks... Can you put me up for the night.

Crow, The

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.

Horace, Odes

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

Wallace Stevens