Night Sayings and Quotes

The night is usually associated with sadness and gloom. However, you can’t see the brightness of the stars without darkness, and can’t appreciate the light day brings without experiencing darkness first. Below you’ll find a collection of wise and insightful night quotes.

All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide; but a hidden star can still be smiling at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling. Munia Khan
And the night shall be filled with music, and the cares, that infest the day, shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and silently steal away. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place. Edna St. Vincent Millay
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson
This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away. J.R.R. Tolkien
That's because it's from the night, and the night keeps secrets. Maggie Stiefvater
There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us. Robert Goolrick
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day. Henry David Thoreau
The nearer the dawn the darker the night. Henry Wadsworth
It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage. Robert Frost
By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul. Carl Sandburg
A cool breeze stirred my hair at that moment, as the night wind began to come down from the hills, but it felt like a breath from another world. Francis Marion Crawford
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things. Jean Baudrillard
Hope is a helium balloon. It is a wish lantern set out into the dark sky of night. Sharon Weil
Every star was once darker than the night, before it awoke. Dejan Stojanovic
The summer demands and takes away too much. But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes. John Ashbery
The dawn of beauty always comes after night. Sorin Cerin
Down the hill I went, and then, I forgot the ways of men, for night-scents, heady and damp and cool wakened ecstasy. Sara Teasdale
Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow. Murasaki Shikibu
The night has a thousand eyes and the day but one yet the light of the bright world dies with the dying sun. Francis William Bourdillon
The night hath been to me a more familiar face than that of man; and in her starry shade of dim and solitary loveliness I learned the language of another world. Lord Byron
The day is for honest men, the night for thieves. Euripides
Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness. Poppy Z. Brite
The day is done, and the darkness falls from the wings of night, as a feather is wafted downward from an eagle in his flight. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle. José Saramago