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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWorldly 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 EliotThere are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
George CarlinThere are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.
Matthew McConaugheyParis by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.
Karl LagerfeldThe pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.
Herbert HooverI often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
Vincent Van GoghGod is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
HeraclitusNature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
Alexander PopeStood 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 ColumbusI do love being in my studio. Especially at night.
Brian EnoPrepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
Samuel JohnsonNature 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 DickensDread of night. Dread of not-night.
Franz KafkaNight brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhat a nice night for an evening.
Steven Wright