Night Quotes
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.Edgar Allan Poe, "Eleonora".
Daylight, in my mind, the night faded.Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
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.
Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.French Prove
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
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
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 bet what happened was, they discovered fire and invented the wheel on the same day. Then, that night, they burned the wheel.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.James Barrie
It was a dark and stormy night the rain fell in torrents - - Except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets for it is in London that our scene lies, rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell, (attributed)
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.Lyndon B. Johnson
What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time.Crowfoot
Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.Diana Rankin
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
Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.Hermione Gingold
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of 4000 critics.Mark Twain
My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends, It gives a lovely light.Edna St. Vincent Millay
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince: And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2
A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.Jim Sorensen
It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.Benjamin Johnson
The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.Marvin, _Life, the Universe, and Everything_ by Douglas Adams
My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light.Edna St. Vincent Millay
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
How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm I thank thee, night for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.Lord Byron
The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.Francis William Bourdillon
Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.Japanese Prove
Daylight follows a dark night.Maasai Prove
To be nobody - But - Yourself - - In a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - - Means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.E e cummings
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
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.George Carlin
However long the night, the dawn will break.African Prove
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - - Except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets for it is in London that our scene lies, rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.Edward Bulwer - Lytton, Paul Clifford
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 dream with open eyes, to make it possible.T. E. Lawrence
We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow - Shapes that come and go Round with the Sun - Illumined Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show.Omar Khayym
