Nighttime Quotes

“I’ve always loved the night, when everyone else is asleep and the world is all mine. It’s quiet and dark—the perfect time for creativity.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Porcelain Utopia

“I'm just an insomniac struggling for a night where I don't dream of you anymore.”
― Lone Alaskan Gypsy

“Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“There's something about the thousands of glittering lights, the veil of nighttime that almost makes this place beautiful, especially in the reflection of the water. It makes everything askew, disoriented. There's more truth in a ripple of water than in a clear day.”
― Ellie Lieberman, Society's Foundlings

“Moon in the sky, stars out, the wide-open expanse of nothing: it made him feel free and alive as the daytime never did.”
― Chuck Wendig, Wanderers

“The sky was so thick with stars it was as if he could reach out and brush them with his hand.”
― justin cronin, The Passage

“Four A.M. and the darkness had a quality of inexorability and menace as though it would never lift, as though, without anyone noticing it, the dawn of the day before had been the beginning of the last light ever in the history of the world.”
― Anna Quindlen, Blessings

“К темноте надо относиться с уважением. Ночь — это то время, когда Вселенная бурлит злом и опасностью. И можно называть это суеверием. Можно называть это боязнью темноты. Но делать вид, что ночь — это то же самое, что и день, только без света, глупо. Ночь существует для того, чтобы собираться вместе под крышей дома. Если только ты волею случая не одинок и не вынужден делать что-то иное.”
― Peter Høeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow

“Some cities are pretty at night, others only during the day but a handful truly great places can be both pretty at nighttime and at daytime. Venice is one of them.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Nietzsche’s Birthday Party: A Short Story Collection

“All lonely, beautifully silent and so very enchanting the city seems at night when every tourist, hotelier and tour guide have gone to bed, almost like a ghost town if it weren’t for the one or other lit window and a few lonely insomniac people walking the alleys here and there.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Nietzsche’s Birthday Party: A Short Story Collection

“I walked along, stepping on my shadow, watching it lengthen and shorten with every streetlight I passed.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“Pie is good any time of the day.”
― Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour

“Each night, your dreams come to inspire you to bring out the magic in your mind.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“I place stars instead of hearts in my night sky - yet my hearts griefs the same.”
― Laura Chouette

“The night has so much to offer those who live in their he[art].”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“The day comes with a few things to ponder on, but the night rains upon the mind a thousand thoughts.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Stars really shine when camping!”
― Steven Magee

“The nighttime sky in Hawaii is amazing away from the streetlights!”
― Steven Magee

“I love camping under the starry nighttime sky!”
― Steven Magee

“Do you sleep better in a closed bedroom or a well-ventilated bedroom?”
― Steven Magee

“I listened as the insects began to hum from the oasis, loud even from the distance we were at. The stars began to wink and blink above us as the last vestiges of sunlight slipped behind the horizon. A desert wolf sent up a howl, its pack answering it with feral glee at the moon’s appearance. It was magical, the coming together of day and night, a complicated dance of light and dark. Small and large, everything seemed to be awake at twilight, praising Nicar for another day—whether rising to enjoy the night, or bedding down to rest.”
― Anna Augustine, By the Sun and Stars

“What a mysterious thing sleep is. You go to bed worrying about gipsies and secret enemies and detectives planted in your house and the possibilities of kidnapping and a hundred other things, and sleep whisks you away from it all. You travel very far and you don’t know where you’ve been, but when you wake up, it’s a totally new world. No worries, no apprehensions. Instead, when I woke up on the 17th September, I was in a mood of boisterous excitement.”
― Agatha Christie, Endless Night

“Two cats on a highway. Nighttime. One is lying on the shoulder. Hit by a car. The second is sitting by it, mouth open toward the heavens in silent pain. Full of pointy teeth. Instead of stars. Like ammunition. An empty road. Behind them. In front of them. Only the omnipresent dotted white line.”
― Jana Beňová, Away! Away!

“The night wakes up the senses;
it wakes up the Soul.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“[T]here was just enough light from the city to show their faces chalk white, with shadows in the place of eyes and mouth, and an occasional gleam of white teeth.”
― Anaïs Nin, Ladders to Fire

“Feeling a bit lazy, are we? No worries, it's just your brain telling you it's time for a power nap! Embrace the sloth life because even the most energetic minds need a break to recalibrate. So, sink into that cozy spot, grab your favorite snack, and let laziness take the wheel for a while. Who knows, you might stumble upon some genius ideas in the process – or at least find a hilarious cat video to watch. Remember, being lazy isn't a crime, it's a lifestyle choice!”
― Life is Positive

“I laid in darkness, in bed with the same song on repeat for hours. I wasn’t sad. I was happy because that’s what happiness was to me.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“Like most species, we have come to expect that we shall wake up more or less where we fell asleep. We associate the night with being static, becalmed. We might toss and turn a bit, and some may even sleepwalk. But as a rule it is the one period in each 24-hour shift when our frenzied movements hither and yon come to a halt. Hence there is something indefinably sneaky about popping up somewhere in the morning at a location that bears little relation to the one we were inhabiting the night before. It is perhaps the nearest most of us come to performing a magic trick.”
― Dixe Wills, At Night: A Journey Round Britain from Dusk Till Dawn

“Increasingly, rather than render nighttime more accessible, we are instead risking its gradual elimination. Already, the heavens, our age-old source of awe and wonder, have been obscured by the glare of outdoor lighting. Only in remote spots can one still glimpse the grandeur of the Milky Way. Entire constellations have disappeared from sight, replaced by a blank sky. Conversely, the fanciful world of our dreams has grown more distant with the loss of segmented sleep and, with it, a better understanding of our inner selves. Certainly, it is not difficult to imagine a time when night, for all practical purposes, will have become day—truly a twenty-four/seven society in which traditional phases of time, from morning to midnight, have lost their original identities. ........... The residual beauty of the night sky, alternating cycles of darkness and light, and regular respites from the daily round of sights and sounds—all will be impaired by enhanced illumination. Ecological systems, with their own patterns of nocturnal life, will suffer immeasurably. With darkness diminished, opportunities for privacy, intimacy, and self-reflection will grow more scarce. Should that luminous day arrive, we stand to lose a vital element of our humanity—one as precious as it is timeless. That, in the depths of a dark night, should be a bracing prospect for any spent soul to contemplate.”
― A. Roger Ekirch, At Day's Close: Night in Times Past

“It occurred to her that, in the dead of night, every alive and awake thing could easily become heightened with excitement, craving, and possibility.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Exchange