Night Quotes

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
Vincent Van Gogh


Night brings out troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
Seneca

O comfort-killing night, image of hell, dim register and notary of shame, black stage for tragedies and murders fell, vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!
William Shakespeare

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.

Night is the mother of counsels.
George Herbert

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) British author.

I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
John, Ch9, v4

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
Ovid

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.
Marilyn vos Savant


A decision made at night may be changed in the morning.
Proverb

Don't sleep too much. If you sleep 3 hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.
Aristotle Onassis


Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.
Robert Louis Stevenson