Night

It was a night so beautiful that your soul seemed hardly able to bear the prison of the body. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. – Vincent Van Gogh

The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand. – Frederick L. Knowles

Night is a world lit by itself. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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-ExupÃ©ry

Metaphor for the night sky: A trillion asterisks and no explanations. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star. – Lucy Maud Montgomery

What I take from my nights, I add to my days. – Leon de Rotrou, “Vencelas,” translated

Mine is the night, with all her stars. – Edward Young

If the Stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. – Jorge Luis Borges

Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas. – J.K. Rowling, “The Egg and The Eye,” Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000,

Night is the blotting paper for many sorrows. – Author Unknown

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity. – Henry Beston

In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race â€” never quite sane in the night. – Mark Twain

The day has eyes; the night has ears. – David Fergusson

No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky. – Llewelyn Powys, quoted in Highs by Alex J. Packer

How magnificent the city is by the June moonlight! â€” after the streets are empty and silent. – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose… – Percy Bysshe Shelley

Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste. – J.K. Rowling