Quotes about Night
That conflict follows politics as night follows day.
- Gloria Steinem
Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day! Every leaf speaks bliss to me, Fluttering from the autumn tree...
- Emily Bronte
The little owls call to each other with tremulous, quavering voices throughout the livelong night, as they sit in the creaking trees.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Light travels halfway around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Light travels half away around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find the day.
- Frank Herbert
I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every book of tactics in the regiment was in use from morning until night, and the officers and non-commissioned officers were always studying the problems presented at the schools.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
hearing C-flat against an F-minor humming the lullaby to the rhythm of you reading that silly novel you try to complete each night I rest in your rest while the day snuggles in and sings me to sleep 'After the Day
- Nikki Giovanni
Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.
- Virginia Woolf
I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.
- Virginia Woolf