Quotes about Night
In the glamour of one Gaudy night, one could realize that one was a citizen of no mean city. It might be an old and an old-fashioned city, with inconvenient buildings and narrow streets where the passersby squabbled foolishly about the right of way; but her foundations were set upon the holy hills and her spires touched heaven.
— Dorothy Sayers
Like I said, I like having someone here. At night I look out my bedroom window, and seeing a light on in here comforts me." He paused in the doorway. "Sort of like, 'All is well in the world.' That's what light does, you know. Says all is well in the world.
— Rachel Hauck
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,-all duties even.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.
— Henry Ward Beecher
God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.
— John Milton
Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and I hated the day because it went toward night.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.
— GK Chesterton
But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?
— Cicero
leave me in peace, let me sleep one night at least without my pillow being wet with tears, my eyes burning and my head throbbing
— Anne Frank
The dark world seemed to lie stricken beneath the cold moon and the lidless stars.
— William Faulkner
Sometimes in the contrast of the night, we can best see the glory of God.
— Beth Moore
O God, my God, the night has values that the day never dreamed of.
— Thomas Merton