Night Quotations
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| Night is the blotting paper for many sorrows. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
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| A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night. | |||
| - Sir James Matthew Barrie | |||
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| Night's black Mantle covers all alike. | |||
| - Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas | |||
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| Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity. | |||
| - Henry Beston | |||
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| For the night shows stars and women in a better light. | |||
| - Lord Byron | |||
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| There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. | |||
| - George Carlin | |||
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| One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space. Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life. My companion and I were alone with the stars: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon. It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators. But it can be see many scores of nights in any year, and so the lights burned in the cottages and the inhabitants probably gave not a thought to the beauty overhead; and because they could see it almost any night, perhaps they never will. | |||
| - Rachel Carson | |||
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| If the Stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. | |||
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson | |||
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| Research is the name given the crystal formed when the night's worry is added to the day's sweat. | |||
| - Martin H. Fischer | |||
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| I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. | |||
| - Vincent van Gogh | |||
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| It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe. | |||
| - Victor Hugo | |||
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| Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel. | |||
| - Samuel Johnson | |||
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| Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon. | |||
| - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | |||
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| In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. | |||
| - William Somerset Maugham | |||
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| For the happiest life, rigorously plan your days, leave your nights open to chance. | |||
| - Mignon McLaughlin | |||
| We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence. | |||
| - Mignon McLaughlin | |||
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| Night is a world lit by itself. | |||
| - Antonio Porchia | |||
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| No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky. | |||
| - Llewelyn Powers | |||
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| Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. | |||
| - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |||
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| These blessed candles of the night. | |||
| - William Shakespeare | |||
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| In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night. | |||
| - Mark Twain | |||
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| By night, an atheist half believes in God. | |||
| - Edward Young | |||
| Mine is the night, with all her stars. | |||
| - Edward Young | |||