The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment. – Djuna Barnes
Shadow owes its birth to light. – John Gay
Night is the mother of counsels. – George Herbert
Nights deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind. – Leigh Hunt
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel. – Samuel Johnson
And the night shall be filled with music, and the cares, that infest the day, shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, and as silently steal away. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Night in Isla Negra – Pablo Neruda
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair. – Ovid
Shadows fall on even the brightest hours. – Bryan Waller Proctor
Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them. – Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
O comfort-killing night, image of hell, dim register and notary of shame, black stage for tragedies and murders fell, vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame! – William Shakespeare
Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I dont have to go out and enjoy it. – Logan Pearsall Smith
Beware thoughts that come in the night. They arent turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources. – William Trogdon
Press close bare-bosomed night — press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! mad naked summer night. – Walt Whitman
