Night Quotes

• Night, when words fade and things come alive.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Alive, Fades, Nighttime

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• Come away with in the night
  Come away with me
  And I will sing you a song
  Come away with me on a bus
  Come away where they can't tempt us
  With there lies
  I want to walk with you
  On a cloudy day
  In fields where the yellow grass grows
  Knee-high
  So won't you try to come
  Come away with me and we'll kiss
  On a mountain top
  Come away with me
  And I'll never stop loving you
  And I want to wake up with the rain
  Falling on a tin roof
  While I'm safe there in your arms
  So all I ask is for you
  To come away with me in the night
  Come away with me.

  Norah Jones

  Song, Lying, Rain

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• All things pass and pain is temporary. It comes to teach a lesson and when the lesson is understood it disappears into the night.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Pain, Lessons

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• When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee; Bend on me, then, thy tender eyes, As stars look on the sea.

  Ernst Gottlieb Baron

  Stars, Eye, Sunset

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• How much more beautiful is the moon, Slanting down the gauffered branches of a plum-tree; The moon Wavering across a bed of tulips; The moon, Still, Upon your face. You shine, Beloved, You and the moon. But which is the reflection?

  Amy Lowell

  Beautiful, Moon, Reflection

  Amy Lowell (2010). “Che ore sono?: poesie”, p.135, G. D'Ambrosio Angelillo

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• The President to-night has a dream: - He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said: - "He is a very common-looking man". The President replied: - "The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them".

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dream, Party, Men

  Attributed in "Letters of John Hay and Extracts from Diary, vol. 1" by John Hay, (pp. 142-143), 1908.

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• Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys...Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma's house...and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn't stay awake for both.

  Michelle Obama

  Soccer, Mom, Grandma

  Michelle Obama's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.

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• My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.

  Robert Bridges

  Angel, Garden, Two

  Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

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• Use every letter you write
  Every conversation you have
  Every meeting you attend
  To express your fundamental beliefs and dreams
  Affirm to others the vision of the world you want

  Robert Muller

  Dream, Powerful, Writing

  "A Planet of Hope".

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• Michelle, I love you. The other night, I think the entire country saw just how lucky I am. Malia and Sasha, you make me so proud…but don't get any ideas, you're still going to class tomorrow. And Joe Biden, thank you for being the best Vice President I could ever hope for.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Morning, Love You

  Barack Obama's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, abcnews.go.com. September 6, 2012.

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• As a youth, I hated myself for not being good enough. All my inadequacies and failures, not being kind enough, generous or understanding enough, would assail me at night. It became a habit to be guilty and self castigating, not liking myself because I was unworthy... I really tortured myself.

  Mira Sorvino

  Self Esteem, Self Respect, Understanding

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• We can walk through the darkest night with the radiant conviction that all things work together for the good.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, Working Together, Conviction

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• Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.

  Cornelia Funke

  Flower, Invisible, Fragrance

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.536, Scholastic Inc.

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• I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Good Night, Art

  Vincent van Gogh (1959). “Complete Letters: With Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence”

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• One night you will ask me for something I cannot give.

  Holly Black

  Giving, Ask Me, Air Force One

  Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.48, Hachette UK

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• What is life, when wanting love?
  Night without a morning;
  Love's the cloudless summer sun,
  Nature gay adorning.

  Robert Burns

  Life, Summer, Morning

  Robert Burns, Hamilton PAUL (1819). “The Poems & Songs of Robert Burns, with a Life of the Author ... To which is Subjoined, an Appendix, Consisting of a Panegyrical Ode, and a Demonstration of Burns' Superiority to Every Other Poet as a Writer of Songs, by the Rev. Hamilton Paul”, p.223

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• no matter how happy we are, no matter how much we want our night to stretch out infinitely, sleep is inevitable.

  David Levithan

  Sleep, Want, Matter

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.14, Egmont UK

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• You’re my wife, Eva. I don’t care if anyone else knows it or not, I know it. And I want to come home to you, have coffee in the morning with you, zip up the back of your dresses, and unzip them at night.

  Sylvia Day

  Morning, Coffee, Home

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• In your arms was still delight,
  Quiet as a street at night;
  And thoughts of you, I do remember,
  Were green leaves in a darkened chamber,
  Were dark clouds in a moonless sky.

  Rupert Brooke

  Life, Dark, Clouds

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.41, Delphi Classics

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• There are many kinds of love, as many kinds of light,
  And every kind of love makes a glory in the night.
  There is love that stirs the heart, and love that gives it rest,
  But the love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Life, Heart, Light

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The works of Henry Van Dyke”

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• The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Day Night, Arms, Farewell To Arms

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• Night is the other half of life, and the better half.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Half, Other Half, Great Night

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• Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.

  Thornton Wilder

  Sky, Singing, Hours

  Thornton Wilder (1956). “A Thornton Wilder Trio: The Cabala, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Woman of Andros”

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  I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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• A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight.

  Oscar Wilde

  Good Night, Dream, Punishment

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.296, OUP Oxford

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