Quotes about Night
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky the night, I mourn'd - and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
- Walt Whitman
All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.
- Joseph Heller
More than fear of loving bears or birds bigger than cows, I fear pathless nights. How, I wonder, can I find you in the dark?
- Toni Morrison
She is not so afraid at night because she is the color of it.
- Toni Morrison
Make a difference, does it? You stay the night here snake get you.
- Toni Morrison
The day breeze blew her dress dry; the night wind wrinkled it.
- Toni Morrison
Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
- Khalil Gibran
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
Yet what happened in fact? In the middle of the night John woke up and saw me sleeping beside him with no doubt a look of peace on my face, even of bliss, bliss is not unattainable in this world. He saw me—saw me as I was at that moment—took fright, hurriedly strapped the armour back over his heart, this time with chains and a double padlock, and stole out into the darkness.
- JM Coetzee
in the night I took a lantern and went to see for myself.
- JM Coetzee
And all the insects ceased in honor of the moon.
- Jack Kerouac
Meditate outdoors. The dark trees at night are not really the dark trees at night, it's only the golden eternity.
- Jack Kerouac