Night Quotes
Do not go gentle into that good night.Dylan Thomas
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
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.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awaken.James Joyce
Good night, good night parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.William Shakespeare
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.George Carlin
This is the night to go to the theatre, like Abraham Lincoln.John F. Kennedy, 28 October 1962, after receiving word from Khrushchev that he agreed on a plan to end the Cuban Missile Crisis
I want to live my life so that my nights are full of regrets.Fitzgerald
At the opera in Milan with my daughter and me, Needleman leaned out of his box and fell into the orchestra pit. Too proud to admit it was a mistake, he attended the opera every night for a month and repeated it each time.Woody Allen
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.Cary Grant
The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.Edgar Albert Guest
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
A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.Marilyn Vos Savant
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.Steven Wright
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.D. H. Lawrence
The enemy came. He was beaten. I am tired. Goodnight.Vicomte Turenne, Message sent after the battle of Dunen, 658
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.Og Mandino, The Greatest Miracle in the World
Wait until it is night before saying that is has been a fine day.French Prove
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.Matt Groening, "Life in Hell".
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
There never was night that had no morn.Dinah Mulock Craik
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature".
I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.Bette Midle
You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.Giovanni Boccaccio, Leitch, Vincent B. ed. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: Norton, 2001.
Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.Philip Gulley
Blade There are worse things out tonight than vampires. Dr. Karen Jenson Like what Blade Like me.Blade
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
Tonight - To you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. On his Vietnam War policy.Richard Milhous Nixon
Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen For what listen they?John Keats
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.Wallace Stevens
I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,... they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.Oscar Levant
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
Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffered Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night - She was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question - Is this all.Betty Naomi Friedan
I think somebody should come up with a way to breed a very large shrimp. That way, you could ride him, then after you camped at night, you could eat him. How about it, science.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.Alexander Hamilton
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.Herb Caen
Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers Love, nightmare - Like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers.William S. Gilbert
