Night Quotes

Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy.

Ernest Rutheford

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

Carl Sandburg

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

George Orwell

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

D. H. Lawrence

Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.

Marion Howard

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday.

Unknown, Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown)

When he stood up, it was a very complicated motion. If the deck chairs on the Ship to the Sea of Night had opened up, they would have done so like that. It was like he was unfolding himself forever.

Neil Gaiman, Good Omens

Ya know, if you treated every comic the way you treated me tonight. You would never see a bad show.

Buddy Hackett

In the night all cats are gray.

Miguel de Cervantes

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.

T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

I think wholeness comes from living your life consciously during the day and then exploring your inner life or unconscious at night.

Margery Cuyle

He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, spoken by Elrond

Neither a borrower nor a lender be For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare

Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labo.

Virgil

Good night, good night parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.

William Shakespeare

At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.

Martin Luthe

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

Charles Baudelaire

In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.

Albert Camus

Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

Herb Caen

Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good night.

Andy Warhol

One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.

Kin Hubbard

To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

Sir Walter Scott

Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.

Japanese Prove

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

Homer, The Iliad

Houston has its largest crowd of the night here this evening.

Jerry Coleman

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

Steve Martin

There is a budding morrow in midnight.

John Keats

to be yourself in a world that is doing its best, day and night to make you like everybody else - - Is to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight.

E. e. cummings

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

Lawrence of Arabia, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Suppressed introductory chapter, first published 1939, Penguin edition p. 23

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Benjamin Franklin

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

William Dement

You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man.

William Shakespeare

Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.

Alfred North Whitehead

The gates of hell are open, night and day Smooth the descent, and easy the way.

Virgil