Night Quotes - Page 40

• Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs, and we had what we used to call jam sessions every night.

  Ben Webster

  Cities, Kansas City, Different

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• A thousand ages in Thy sight
  Are like an evening gone;
  Short as the watch that ends the night
  Before the rising sun.

  Isaac Watts

  Sight, Age, Gone

  Isaac Watts (1832). “An Arrangement of the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts”, p.148

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• Dear Night! this world's defeat; The stop to busy fools; care's check and curb; The day of spirits; my soul's calm retreat Which none disturb! Christ's progress, and His prayer-time; The hours to which high Heaven cloth chime.

  Henry Vaughan

  Prayer, Heaven, Soul

  'The Night' l. 25 from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

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• We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Nature, Ambition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.20, Penguin

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• Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. . . . He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. . . . Toiling,-rejoicing,-sorrowing, Onward through life he goes; Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Strong, Morning

  "The Village Blacksmith" st. 7 (1839)

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• Abide with me; fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide; When other helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, O, abide with me. Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day; Earth's joys grow dim, its glories pass away; Change and decay in all around I see; O Thou, who changest not, abide with me.

  Henry Francis Lyte

  Life, Failure, Fall

  "Abide with Me" l. 1 (1847)

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• Kind words toward those you daily meet, Kind words and actions right, Will make this life of ours most sweet, Turn darkness into night.

  Isaac Watts

  Life, Sweet, Darkness

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• Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.

  Hermann Hesse

  Soul, One Day, World

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• In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted. Ah! what is not a dream by day To him whose eyes are cast On things around him with a ray Turned back upon the past? That holy dream- that holy dream, While all the world were chiding, Hath cheered me as a lovely beam A lonely spirit guiding. What though that light, thro' storm and night, So trembled from afar- What could there be more purely bright In Truth's day-star?

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Life, Dream, Lonely

  Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell (1853). “The works of the late Edgar Allan Poe”, p.105

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• Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Home, Adversity

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• Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!

  A. P. Herbert

  Eye, Light, Mad

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• The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Distance, Discovery, Metamorphosis

  "Noces". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1945.

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• Day! Faster and more fast. O'er night's brim, day boils at last.

  Robert Browning

  Lasts, Faster, Last Day

  Robert Browning (2015). “Complete Plays of Robert Browning”, p.326, e-artnow sro

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• A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Caps, Brows, Deck

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “Letters from a Citizen of the World to His Friends in the East”, p.94

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• If you stay up late and you have another hour of work to do, you can just stay up another hour later without running into a wall and having to stop. Whereas it might take three or four hours if you start over, you might finish if you just work that extra hour. If you're a morning person, the day always intrudes a fixed amount of time in the future. So it's much less efficient. Which is why I think computer people tend to be night people - because a machine doesn't get sleepy.

  Bill Joy

  Running, Morning, Wall

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• And o'er the hills, and far away Beyond their utmost purple rim, Beyond the night, across the day, Thro' all the world she follow'd him.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Purple, World, Hills

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.130, Cambridge University Press

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• But oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.

  John Milton

  Embrace

  John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is Prefixed Newton's Life of Milton”, p.216

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• Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie down, because 'twas night? Love which in spite of darkness brought us hither Should in despite of light keep us together.

  John Donne

  Lying, Light, Darkness

  John Donne (2013). “Love poems”, p.23, Lulu.com

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• Woodcutter. Cut my shadow from me. Free me from the torment of being without fruit. Why was I born among mirrors? Day goes round and round me. The night copies me in all its stars. I want to live without my reflection. And then let me dream that ants and thistledown are my leaves and my parrots.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Dream, Stars, Cutting

  Federico García Lorca, “The Song Of The Barren Orange Tree”

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• The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at the billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Morning, Men

  Benjamin Franklin, Henry Stueber (1823). “The Life of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself: Together with a Number of His Humorous, Moral, and Literary Essays, Chiefly in the Manner of The Spectator”, p.177

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• While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers of Italy, the so-called Pythagoreans, assert the contrary. They say that in the middle there is fire, and that the earth is one of the stars, and by its circular motion round the center produces night and day.

  Aristotle

  Stars, Lying, Fire

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• I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths of and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals an untold abundance of images which have accumulated over millions of years of living development and become fixed in the organism....Beside this picture I would like to place the spectacle of the starry heavens at night, for the only equivalent of the universe within is the universe without; and just as I reach this world through the medium of the body, so I reach that world through the medium of the psyche.

  Carl Jung

  Years, Psychics, Heaven

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• Killing Lincoln is a must-read historical thriller. Bill O'Reilly recounts the dramatic events of the spring of 1865 with such exhilarating immediacy that you will feel like you are walking the streets of Washington DC on the night that John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln. This is a hugely entertaining, heart-stopping read.

  Vince Flynn

  Spring, Heart, Historical

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• The brightest star on a cloudless night
  Some kind of miracle, almost empty sky...
  Just as the bite of the blade wakes the absent mind
  There's time to dream and there's time to open your eyes

  Dave Matthews

  Dream, Stars, Eye

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• The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Dreamer

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