Night Quotes
Famous Quotes & Quotations About Night:
Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline.
Some praise the Lord for Light,
The living spark;
I thank God for the Night
The healing dark.
~ Robert William Service, Weary.
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
~ Joseph Conrad.
Mine is the night, with all her stars.
~ Edward Young.
Moonlight is sculpture.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Night's black Mantle covers all alike.
~ Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas.
Research is the name given the crystal formed when the night's worry is added to the day's sweat.
~ Martin H. Fischer.
Most glorious night!
Thou wert not sent for slumber!
~ Lord Byron, Childe Harold.
There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.
~ N.P. Willis.
Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery.
We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.
~ Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook
What I take from my nights, I add to my days.
~ Leon de Rotrou.
When the moon, after covering herself with darkness as in sorrow, at last throws off the garments of her widowhood, she does not at once expose herself impudently to the public gaze; but for a time remains veiled in a transparent cloud, till she gradually acquires courage to endure the looks and admiration of beholders.
~ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827.
With finger on her solemn lip,
Night hushed the shadowy earth.
~ Margaret Deland.
No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.
~ Llewelyn Powys.
O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray!
Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.
~ George Eliot.
O wild and wondrous midnight,
There is a might in thee
To make the charmed body
Almost like spirit be,
And give it some faint glimpses
Of immortality.
~ James Russell Lowell, Midnight.
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