Night Quotes

He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, spoken by Elrond

Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay.

Millard Fuller, founder and president, Habitat for Humanity International

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true.

Logan Pearsall Smith

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell, (attributed)

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)

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

Carl Sandburg

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

Leonard Bernstein

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

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, Where have I gone wrong Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.

Charles M. Schulz

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Benjamin Franklin

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

George Carlin

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

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

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

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

Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.

Diana Rankin

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

Wait until it is night before saying that is has been a fine day.

French Prove

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

Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, circa 412 B. C.

The enemy came. He was beaten. I am tired. Goodnight.

Vicomte Turenne, Message sent after the battle of Dunen, 658

History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awaken.

James Joyce

History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Joyce

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

Homer, The Iliad

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

Margery Cuyle

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

Lewis Ward

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

Horace

I think somebody should come up with a way to breed a very large shrimp. That way, you could ride him, then after you camped at night, you could eat him. How about it, science.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Good night, good night parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.

William Shakespeare

At the opera in Milan with my daughter and me, Needleman leaned out of his box and fell into the orchestra pit. Too proud to admit it was a mistake, he attended the opera every night for a month and repeated it each time.

Woody Allen

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

Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3

Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labo.

Virgil

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, - All duties even.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Dylan Thomas

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

Hermione Gingold

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

George Weiss

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