Quotations about Nights

Introduction:

The beauty and mystery of the night have long fascinated humanity, inspiring poets, philosophers, and writers throughout the ages. As Edward Plunkett once mused, “A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.” In the quiet darkness, our thoughts and emotions often take on a different hue, as expressed by Edward Young, who said, “By night, an atheist half believes in God.”

The night, with its enigmatic allure, often serves as a backdrop for introspection and contemplation, as Mahatma Gandhi believed, “Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.” It’s a time when the boundaries between reality and dreams blur, as Vincent Van Gogh noted, “I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”

This collection of quotes reflects the various facets of the night, from its capacity to bring solace and creativity to its power to evoke solitude and longing. Join us as we journey through the profound musings on the night by thinkers and artists from different epochs and backgrounds.

Quotations:

• A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders. ~ Edward Plunkett
• By night, an atheist half believes in God. ~ Edward Young
• Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night. ~ Philip K. Dick
• Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
• For the happiest life, rigorously plan your days, leave your nights open to chance. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
• For the night shows stars and women in a better light. ~ Lord Byron, Don Juan
• How long the night seems to one kept awake by pain. ~ Bernard-Joseph Saurin
• I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. ~ Vincent Van Gogh
• In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
• It seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air. ~ Charles Dickens
• It was a night so beautiful that your soul seemed hardly able to bear the prison of the body. ~ W. Somerset Maugham
• Life begins at night ~ Charlaine Harris
• Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. ~ Henry Rollins
• Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. ~ Jean Paul
• Night has become painful for me. It brings to light the regrets of the day. ~ Grey E. Livingston
• Night is a world lit by itself. ~ Antonio Porchia, Voces
• Night is the blotting paper for many sorrows. ~ Author Unknown
• Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight. ~ Roy Orbison
• Remember tonight… for it is the beginning of always. ~ Dante Alighieri
• The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God! ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The day has eyes; the night has ears. ~ David Fergusson
• The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand. ~ Frederick L. Knowles
• There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ~ George Carlin
• There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope. ~ Bernard Williams
• There’s no night without stars. ~ Andre Norton
• Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets. ~ William Faulkner
• We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
• What hath night to do with sleep? ~ John Milton
• You can’t stand up to the night until you understand what’s hiding in its shadows. ~ Charles De Lint