Night Quotes

And now we come to the Heart of our Designe: the art of Shaddowes you must know well, Walter, and you must be instructed how to Cast them with due Care. It is only the Darknesse that can give trew Forme to our Work and trew Perspective to our Fabrick, for there is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe (and I turn this Thought over in my Mind: what Life is there which is not a Portmanteau of Shaddowes and Chimeras?). I build in the Day to bring News of the Night and of Sorrowe, I continued, and then I broke off for Walter's sake.

~ Peter Ackroyd

The world has two faces :The day or the bright moment whenwe naturally stay alive (awake).The night or the dark moment whenwe naturally remain dead (sleep).

~ Rohan Nath

Bijli fails in the dead of night / Won’t help to call “I need a light” / You’re in Karachi now / Oh, oh you’re in Karachi now. / Night is falling and you just cant see / Is this illusion or KESC / You’re in Karachi now

~ Kamila Shamsie

Now she’s lit by the warm orange spreading from the horizon as not-quite-day, becomes not-quite-night

~ David Levithan

...And we left the lightfor the night of the street

~ Pierre Albert-Birot

I know that some nightin some bedroomsoonmy fingers willriftthroughsoft cleanhairsongs such as no radioplaysall sadness, grinninginto flow.

~ Charles Bukowski

Hurry up, before there's no more night left.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

When you're lying in bed at night and regrets from the day come to steal your sleep... I should have If only I'd I wish I'd...grab one of them and turn it into an I will and sleep peacefully knowing tomorrow will be a better day.

~ L.r. Knost

You kissed me that morning as if you’d never done it before and never would again and now I write another letter that I will never dare to send, collecting memories of loss like chains tight around my chest,and if you see a fire from the shore tonightit’s my chains going up in flames.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

This tune goes manly.Come, go we to the King. Our power is ready;Our lack is nothing but our leave. MacbethIs ripe for shaking, and the powers abovePut on their instruments. Receive what cheer you may.The night is long that never finds th

~ William Shakespeare

I always welcomed the comforting cloak of night except for the times when I lost something in it.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Women can go mad with insomnia.The sleep-deprived roam houses that have lost their familiarity. With tea mugs in hand, we wander rooms, looking on shelves for something we will recognize: a book title, a photograph, the teak-carved bird -- a souvenir from what place? A memory almost rises when our eyes rest on a painting's grey sweep of cloud, or the curve of a wooden leg in a corner. Fingertips faintly recall the raised pattern on a chair cushion, but we wonder how these things have come to be here, in this stranger's home.Lost women drift in places where time has collapsed. We look into our thoughts and hearts for what has been forgotten, for what has gone missing. What did we once care about? Whom did we love? We are emptied. We are remote. Like night lilies, we open in the dark, breathe in the shadowy world. Our soliloquies are heard by no one.

~ Cathy Ostlere

Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.

~ Murasaki Shikibu

I left smiles on your wordless lipsThe night roads- dismal and narrow,dream’s path remains shadowy wideas our lone hearts felt that arrowFrom the Poem 'My Tomorrow

~ Munia Khan

I can’t sleep alone anymoreand I get used tocompanytoo quickly. You’re always gone too soon.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

The sky is but a looking glass into a pool of airless oceans, cast off into a dance of light and energy, leaving only a facet of guidance to navigate. Such an existence lays but within the mind man.

~ Indiana Lang

. . . a wind howling began, which seemed to form all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.

~ Bram Stoker

There open up, deep inside a city, reflected streets, streets which are double, make-believe streets. One's imagination, bewitched and misled, creates illusory maps of the apparently familiar districts, maps in which the streets have their proper places and usual names but are provided with new and fictitious configurations by the inexhaustible inventiveness of the night.

~ Bruno Schulz

Some nights, we were a city of two.

~ Jerry Spinelli

We think of those nights spent with one or more friends, nights when we merged with the shadows and could see the world with eyes that were not our own.

~ Whipplesnaith

All men are brothers in the night.

~ Peter V. Brett

In between waking up from bed in the morning and going back in the evening, let something happen. God will bless that “something” for you.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Hold tight the gift seeds in thy palms. Sow them all when the time is right. By God's wisdom they'll grow, not by thy might. And you shall reap them all before it's night! Live life so well!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

One smile in the morning can change your mood for the entire day. One hug in the evening can usher you into cheerful night dreams you will never regret!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Planning of the next day’s activities should be done a night before. This makes you not to be destructed by people and events that do not contribute to the success of your dreams.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The darkest night in someone's life may be the brightest day in another person's life. Life rests on perceptions and conceptions or missed perceptions and misconceptions. You can choose to make good things out of every challenging circumstance. In contrast, you can also choose to see nothing in a creative opportunity.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Don't accommodate complains in your chamber, else you have a sleepless and restless night. Keep them away and fall in love with actions for solution!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When your dreams are clearer and stronger than your sleep, night becomes a mere extension of day

~ Anoop Raghav

At night I dream of things I scoff at by day.

~ Jaclyn Dolamore

come, ancient and unchanging nightNight, born as dethroned king,Night, internally equal to silence, Night.With sequins of volatile starlightWoven on your robe with infinityCome quietlyCome fleet-footedCome alone.

~ Pierre Péju

Dreams are not lands of happiness. It is miscomprehended that bad dreams are nightmares. In truth, the only dreams we have are nightmares. When you are asleep, your brain wanders, bringing up thoughts of hopes and fears. During the night, thoughts of fear are what haunt you. Dreams are nightmares. Hopeful dreams are your wishes that will most likely never come true, which are their own form of nightmares.

~ Mandi Lynn

I do dream every night but in the morning I regret.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

I pass a construction site, abandoned for the night, and a few blocks later, the playground of the elementary school my son attended, the metal sliding board gleaming under a streetlamp and the swings stirring in the breeze. There's an energy to these autumn nights that touches something primal inside of me. Something from long ago. From my childhood in western Iowa. I think of high school football games and the stadium lights blazing down on the players. I smell ripening apples, and the sour reek of beer from keg parties in the cornfields. I feel the wind in my face as I ride in the bed of an old pickup truck down a country road at night, dust swirling in the taillights and the entire span of my life yawning out ahead o me. It's the beautiful thing about youth.There's a weightlessness that permeates everything because no damning choices have been made, no paths committed to, and the road forking out ahead is pure, unlimited potential. I love my life, but I haven't felt that lightness of being in ages. Autumn nights like this are as close as I get.

~ Blake Crouch

It's late at night when the memory comes for me, like it always seems to when the relief of sleep seems ready to draw me under.

~ Joaquin Lowe

Gansey always thought that, after dark, it felt like anything could happen. At night, Henrietta felt like magic, and at night, magic felt like it might be a terrible thing.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

There was something in the moonlight tonight. It was stroking the stonework and spires, leaning into cracks between the cobblestones, caressing the stained-glass windows. She felt her heart lift with magic.

~ Jaclyn Moriarty

The moon was reigning over their world, glowing its full splendor to all those willing to look up.

~ Irina Serban

If you don't believe in yourself, who will?' ~Maybeck

~ Ridley Pearson

The moon was low but not full. The men set out along the dock in conversation. As they dropped onto the dark beach, Simmons declared, ‘There can be no better place in the world than this.’Henderson had to agree. The beach was beautiful. The stars lit the sand and balmy air rode in as the waves washed up on paradise

~ Sara Sheridan

You have not lived until you have fled a city in a country where you do not speak the language in the middle of the night.

~ Ken Poirot