Quotes about Night
Time is inextricably tangled up with place, and can be measured only against place. Time has meaning only in relation to its position in space, the movement of a planet about a sun, of a night through stars.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Ptolemy said, "Mortal though I be, yea, ephemeral, if but a moment I gaze up at night's starry domain of heaven, then no longer on earth I stand: I touch the Creator and my lively spirit drinketh immortality.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Those who see the nightly splendor of the moon are possessed by perverse ingratitude if they do not recognize the goodness of God.
- John Calvin
'Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be?O wilt thou therefore rise from me?Why should we rise, because 'tis light?Did we lie down, because 'twas night?Love which in spite of darkness brought us hitherShould in despite of light keep us together.
- John Donne
Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night.
- John Donne
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
- Vernon Howard
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
- Samuel Johnson
You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
- Gabrielle Union
Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.
- Charles Spurgeon
From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties And things that go bump in the night good Lord deliver us!
- Anonymous
But that had been out-of-doors, under the open irresponsible night. Now, in the warm lamplit room, with all its ancient implications of conformity and order, she seemed infinitely farther away from him and more unapproachable.
- Edith Wharton
During the day, I was a doctor. At night, you know, I was a comic. And it was really just to let off some steam. It just became my golf, you know, in many ways. Most doctors have golf as a hobby. Mine was doing comedy.
- Ken Jeong