Night has become painful for me. It brings to light the regrets of the day. – Grey Livingston
A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders. – Edward Plunkett
To seek the breast of darkness and be suckled by the night. – Paul Simon, “A Poem on the Underground Wall”
How long the night seems to one kept awake by pain. – Bernard-Joseph Saurin, Blanche et Guiscard, translated from French
There is something in the nature of silence which affects me deeply. Why it is I know not; but I do know that I love to be alone at such an hour as this. I love to forget the outward world and hold communion with the beings of the mind. – Charles Lanman, “Musings,” 1840
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. – Vincent Van Gogh
[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air. – Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
…So let us welcome peaceful evening in. – William Cowper
A violet dusk slowly deepens, while bits of Tomorrow start sticking to the last pieces of Today. – Dr.SunWolf, 2015 tweet, professorsunwolf.com
The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent fields; here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them. – L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world can hear the stars up in the sky whispering a lullaby. – Mary Chapin Carpenter
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, “Where have I gone wrong?” Then a voice says to me, “This is going to take more than one night.” – Charles M. Schulz
For the night shows stars and women in a better light. – Lord Byron, Don Juan
I rise and turn back…. leaving the rest of the world to coyotes who are now running across the mountain together, howling and yipping behind me, calling for the frozen night to come. – Craig Childs, The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild
A wolf howls his soul into the misty night. The moon answers with glowing silence. – Terri Guillemets
Sometimes on lonely nights the man in the moon is my best friend. – Terri Guillemets
[O]ne moon lights a thousand forevers… – Meng Chiao
Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion
These blessed candles of the night. – William Shakespeare, referring to stars, Merchant of Venice
It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky… a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe. – Victor Hugo
