Night Quotes: Embracing the Beauty of Darkness

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

"What a nice night for an evening"

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"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

"In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"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

"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

"So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!"

Edgar Bergen, Actor

"Dread of night. Dread of not-night"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

"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

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

Emily Rossum

"On the night of the 1st of September we observed for the first time signs of the natives being in the neighbourhood. Fires were seen on the low land near Cape Frederick Henry, and at daylight we saw the natives with our glasses"

William Bligh, Soldier

"A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before"

Frank Rizzo, Politician

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"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

"By night an atheist half believes in a God"

Edward Young, Poet

"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"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 think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

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

St. Jerome, Saint

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

Lyn Nofziger

"My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night"

Lee Grant, Actress

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

Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian

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

Charlie Sheen, Actor

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

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night"

Steve Martin, Comedian

"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

"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'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around the living room. It's hard for me to come down from what I do"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"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

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