Famous Night Quotes
Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.
The frost on the windowpane is a canvas for dreams painted by the night.
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
Each morning sees some task begun Each evening sees it close. Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night’s repose.
Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance -- that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Dying is a wild night and a new road.
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.