Quotes about Night
But a cluster containing night's darkness and blood-dripping wounds, And psalms of the dead.
— Walt Whitman
Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
— Walt Whitman
Shake out carols! Solitary here, the night's carols! Carols of lonesome love! death's carols! Carols under that lagging, yellow, waning moon! O under that moon where she droops almost down into the sea! O reckless despairing carols.
— Walt Whitman
The myth of heaven indicates peace and night. The myth of heaven indicates the soul; The soul is always beautiful . . . it appears more or it appears less . . . it comes or lags behind
— Walt Whitman
Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.
— Wendell Berry
If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal, — that is your success.
— Henry David Thoreau
I loved my family, but that night in the car I hit the wall of the reality of relationships in a fallen world.
— Timothy Lane
They take their punishment so well, so cheerfully: I go out with an adder in my heart, and an asp in my tongue, and every night I sow thorns in the garden of my soul.
— Oscar Wilde
They walked softly, as men do instinctively at night. The lamp cast fantastic shadows on the wall and staircase. A rising wind made some of the windows rattle.
— Oscar Wilde
I shall write it in my diary to-night What? That a burnt child loves the fire
— Oscar Wilde
"Brothers, our toil and hardship, we worked night and day in order not to be a burden to anyone while we preached the gospel of God to you."
— 1 Thessalonians 2: 9
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
— William Wordsworth