Night Quotes - Page 8

• The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

  Ogden Nash

  Morning, Regret, Sleep

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• In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.

  Mark Twain

  Race, Age, Never Quit

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.46, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• T-shirt and stretchy pants? Yup, that's fine. It's pajama-y, good night.

  Rebecca Romijn

  Good Night, Pants, Pajamas

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• Sometimes I'm so tired, I look down at what I'm wearing, and if it's comfortable enough to sleep in, I don't even make it into my pajamas. I'm looking down, and I'm like, 'T-shirt and stretchy pants? Yup, that's fine. It's pajama-y, good night.'

  Rebecca Romijn

  Good Night, Sleep, Tired

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• I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

  Henry Miller

  Mushrooms, Roots, America

  Henry Miller (2007). “Black Spring”, p.24, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.

  Sarah Silverman

  Comedy, Saturday, Performers

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• I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.

  Harold Wilson

  Good Night, Believe, Sleep

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• We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth.

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, Numbers, Desire

  Elie Wiesel (1985). “Night ; Dawn ; Day”, Jason Aronson

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• Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

  Samuel Johnson

  Thinking, Bed, Twelve

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.211

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• In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Sad, Depressing, Morning

  "Handle with Care" (1936)

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• On dreary night let lusty sunshine fall.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Fall, Sunshine, Dreary

  Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.81

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• Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Towns, Frontiers, Citadels

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1005, Delphi Classics

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  My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

  Cary Grant

  Life, Morning, Simple

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• In the night, imagining some fear,
  How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Bears, Easy

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

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• There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.

  Joseph Conrad

  Halloween, Moon, Light

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.230, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.

  Mark Twain

  Romantic, Good Night, Summer

  Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Albert Bigelow Paine (2014). “The Mark Twain Autobiography + 3 Biographies: 4 Mark Twain Biographies In 1 Book: Chapters From My Autobiography By Mark Twain + My Mark Twain By William Dean Howells’ + Mark Twain A Biography By Albert Bigelow Paine + The Boys’ Life Of Mark Twain By Albert Bigelow Paine”, p.1366, e-artnow

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• 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

  Stars, Wall, Sleep

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes: Stevenson's Vol. 5”, p.41, VM eBooks

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• This is a day when all Americans from every walk of life unite in our resolve for justice and peace. America has stood down enemies before, and we will do so this time. None of us will ever forget this day. Yet, we go forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world. Thank you. Good night, and God bless America.

  George W. Bush

  Good Night, America, Our World

  9/11 Address to the Nation, delivered 11 September, Oval Office, Washington, D.C.

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• For those who may ask what they can do to honor Neil, we have a simple request. Honor his example of service, accomplishment and modesty, and the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink.

  Neil Armstrong

  Moon, Simple, Thinking

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• A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

  James M. Barrie

  Sarcastic, Halloween, Men

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.201, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

  Harry Dean Stanton

  Good Night, Sweet, Angel

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• Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Clown, Hanging Around

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [20]

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• Good night, and good luck.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Good Night, Good Luck, Best Of Luck

  Response to Senator Joe McCarthy on CBS' See It Now, Originally Broadcast 13 April 1954

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• Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.

  A. J. McLean

  Love, Music, Thank You

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night

  Benjamin Franklin

  Morning, Beer, Men

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