Night Quotes

“Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. Like smoke from an unseen fire, a line of fire just below the horizon, brushfire or a burning city. Maybe night falls because it’s heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes. Wool blanket.” ― Margaret Atwood

“The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.” ― Shannon L. Alder

“That's the advantage of insomnia. People who go to be early always complain that the night is too short, but for those of us who stay up all night, it can feel as long as a lifetime. You get a lot done” ― Banana Yoshimoto

“Good night - may you fall asleep in the arms of a dream, so beautiful, you'll cry when you awake.” ― Michael Faudet

“I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.” ― Sylvia Plath

“This is night, Diddykins. That's what we call it when it goes all dark like this. ” ― J.K. Rowling

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.” ― Sarah Williams

“Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.” ― Poppy Z.Brite

“We love the night and its quiet; and there is no night that we love so well as that on which the moon is coffined in clouds.” ― Fitz-James O'Brien

“all those nights with the phone warming the side of my face like the sun.” ― Warsan Shire

“Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark” ― Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Everything was an adventure, at night, when you were where you shouldn't be, even if it was somwhere you could go perfectly well in daylight, and it was then only ordinary.” ― Robin McKinley

“The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.” ― Erin Hunter

“I'm hungry for a juicy life. I lean out my window at night and I can taste it out there, just waiting for me.” ― Brigid Lowry

“On nights like this when the air is so clear, you end up saying things you ordinarily wouldn’t. Without even noticing what you’re doing, you open up your heart and just start talking to the person next to you—you talk as if you have no audience but the glittering stars, far overhead.” ― Banana Yoshimoto

“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

“It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.” ― Haruki Murakami

“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.” ― Stephenie Meyer

“May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.” ― Franz Kafka

“The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.” ― night is the hardest

“The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.” ― Andre Breton

“The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.” ― Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.” ― Mahatma Gandhi