Night Quotes: Embracing the Beauty of Darkness

"Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can"

Cary Grant, Actor

"He appeared every night, like myself, at about nine o'clock, in the office of Mr. Tyler, to learn the news brought in the night Associated Press report. He knew me from the Bull Run campaign as a correspondent of the press"

Henry Villard, Journalist

"I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots"

Henry Miller, Writer

"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do"

Bob Dylan, Musician

"I started working when I was seven and I was working for five dollars a night at the Met"

Emily Rossum

"It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Night is the mother of counsels"

George Herbert, Poet

"Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art"

Paul Theroux, Novelist

"I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said"

Lyn Nofziger

"Boom, crush. Night, losers. Winning, duh"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night"

St. Jerome, Saint

"I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead"

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself"

Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian

"On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena"

Al Jourgensen, Musician

"I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day"

Brigitte Bardot, Actress

"I play against a front and a back every night, Ming does not have to do that, Duncan does not have to do that, Garnett doesn't do that. I am the only one that has to do that"

Shaquille O'Neal, Athlete

"The streets were dark with something more than night"

Raymond Chandler, Writer

"I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night"

Buddy Rich, Musician

"I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians"

Joely Fisher, Actress

"Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears"

Joanna Southcott, Celebrity

"I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to"

Drew Barrymore, Actress

"I know the game wasn't a classic, but the night was about more than that-it was about bringing back the memories and raising money for former heroes who have now fallen on hard times"

David Ginola, Athlete

"I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every single night it's different"

Austin Peck, Actor

"I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters"

John Bonham, Musician

"I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I'm working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and go home every night and play with my kids, so I don't really know"

Bob Odenkirk, Actor

"It might sound odd, but I want to thank Michael Bay because he's been saying how important it is to show 3D with the right luminescence. And that's very important for this film, a lot of which was shot at night or with very low illumination"

David Heyman, Producer

"When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Musician

"One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?"

James Caan, Actor

"Going to your set with the headphones on in the middle of the night so that your parents don't know what you're doing when you're supposed to be asleep is great. I was rocking the bedroom. That was so much more fun when I got the 1200s"

Jam Master Jay, Musician

"I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest"

Harry Dean Stanton, Actor

"We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family - but it's all Liverpool now"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me"

Rod Taylor, Actor

"One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick Jagger and Keith Richards trying to get in the club and they couldn't get in cause it was to crowded"

Tommy Chong, Actor

"It means a lot in my business and its a wonderful feeling to be recognized for what you have done over a lifetime, but I didn't go crazy. I still eat my cereal in the morning, have a sandwich in the afternoon, go to bed at night. You know, nothing really different"

Regis Philbin, Entertainer

"I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel"

Jonathan Davis, Musician

"Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world"

Roger Waters, Musician

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