night quotes

16 quotes

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

George Eliot

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

There are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.

Matthew McConaughey

Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

Karl Lagerfeld

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

Herbert Hoover

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Vincent Van Gogh

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

Alexander Pope

Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.

Christopher Columbus

I do love being in my studio. Especially at night.

Brian Eno

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Samuel Johnson

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

Franz Kafka

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What a nice night for an evening.

Steven Wright