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Quotations
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 15 likes | |
The dream is the aquarium of the night. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 4 likes | |
Night is the other half of life, and the better half. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 4 likes | |
The air was full of all the night noises that, taken together, make one big silence… — Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936, English writer, Nobel 1907 4 likes | |
Who said nights were for sleep? — Marilyn Monroe, 1926-1962, American actress 4 likes | |
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. — Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976 4 likes | |
I think the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 3 likes | |
It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 3 likes | |
The subconscious takes its revenge at night. — Louis Scutenaire, 1905-1987, Belgian surrealist & anarchist 3 likes | |
Night, when words fade and things come alive. — Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer 3 likes | |
Night is a world lit by itself. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 2 likes | |
And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells. — Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer 2 likes | |
Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night. |
Latin Quotes
Night, shortly. Mox nox. — Medieval Sundial motto 23 likes |
Quotes in Verse
Did the night lead me me to these streets? or did these streets lead me to the night? — Dinos Christianopoulos, 1931-2020, Greek poet 3 likes |
Funny Quotes
The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, “where the hell is my roof?” — Steven Wright, 1955-, American comedian 7 likes | |
I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, benzedrine or a bottle of Jack Daniel's. — Frank Sinatra, 1915-1998, American singer 5 likes | |
What a nice night for an evening. — Steven Wright, 1955-, American comedian 2 likes |
Ancient Greek
To the question, “What came first, night or day?” “Night,” he said, “by one day.” Τον πυθόμενον τι πρότερον γεγόνοι, νυξ η ημέρα, «η νυξ,» έφη, «μια ημέρα πρότερον.» — Thales of Miletus, 643-548 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 6 likes | |
Night is for the thieves, light is for the truth. Κλεπτών γαρ η νυξ, της δ’ αληθείας το φως. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Iphigeneia in Tauris 5 likes |
Proverbs
At night all cats are grey. 5 likes | |
After dark all cats are leopards. — American Indian proverb ‐ Zuni 2 likes |
Movie Quotes
Do you know what illuminates the night? Poetry. — from the film Alphaville (1965) 6 likes | |
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night. — from the film All About Eve (1950) 4 likes |