Night Quotes

“The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves.”

“All nights are dark days, because night is simply a badly lit version of day.”

“Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night;
Give me my Romeo; and, when I shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night...”

“Wild nights are my glory!”

″[T]he night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.”

“Twilight, again,” he murmured. “Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.”

“I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars.”

“The air was full of all the night noises that, taken together, make one big silence.”

“Stars and shadows ain’t good to see by.”

“This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best.
Night, sleep, and the stars.”