“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
Hermann Hesse book Narcissus and Goldmund
Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)
Good Night quotes
A collection of quotes on the topic of good morning, goodbye, good night, love.
Best good night quotes
“You will always love, and you will always be loved.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”
Paul Valéry (1871–1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables
“You are what you believe yourself to be.”
Paulo Coelho book The Witch of Portobello
Source: The Witch of Portobello (2007), p. 152.
Context: You are what you believe yourself to be.
Don't be like those people who believe in "positive thinking" and tell themselves that they're loved and strong and capable. You don't need to do that because you know it already. And when you doubt it — which happens, I think, quite often at this stage of evolution — do as I suggested. Instead of trying to prove that you're better than you think, just laugh. Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it. Now go back and meet all those people who think you know everything. Convince yourself that they're right, because we all know everything, it's merely a question of believing.
Believe.
“You never fail until you stop trying.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer
"The Love of Long Ago"
Source: The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant
Context: There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
Good Night quotes
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet
Variant: I love you as one loves certain dark things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
Source: 100 Love Sonnets
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
“Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming”
David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
“There is another world, but it is in this one.”
Paul Éluard (1895–1952) French poet
Il y a assurément un autre monde, mais il est dans celui-ci...
Œuvres complètes, vol. 1, Gallimard, 1968.
“To love is to will the good of the other.”
Thomas Aquinas book Summa Theologica
II-II, q. 26, art. 6
Summa Theologica (1265–1274)
“I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep.”
Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (1923) http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171621 <br class="br">Variant: And miles to go before I sleep. <br class="br">Context: The woods are lovely, dark and deep.<br>But I have promises to keep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep.
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author
“No matter where you go, there you are”
Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach
Source: When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Welsh poet and writer
Source: In Country Sleep, and Other Poems
“There is, in the end, the letting go.”
Marya Hornbacher book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
“If there is a good will, there is great way.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet
Variant: Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Man is a genius when he is dreaming.”
Akira Kurosawa (1910–1998) Japanese film maker
Variant: Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
“It is true if you believe it to be true.”
Louise L. Hay (1926–2017) American writer
Source: You Can Heal Your Heart: Finding Peace After a Breakup, Divorce, or Death
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt without an original source in her writings, for example in the introduction to It Seems to Me : Selected Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt (2001) by Leonard C. Schlup and Donald W. Whisenhunt, p. 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=UeFWjTMcLZYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q&f=false. But archivists have not been able to find the quote in any of her writings, see the comment from Ralph Keyes in The Quote Verifier above. <br class="br">Disputed
Marilyn vos Savant (1946) US American magazine columnist, author and lecturer
As quoted in What Type Am I? : Discover Who You Really Are (1998) by Renee Baron, p. 110
“No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.”
George Lucas (1944) American film producer
Source: The Star Wars Trilogy
Nicole Krauss The History of Love
Variant: Then she kissed him. Her kiss was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
Source: The History of Love (2005), P. 11
“You have to believe in it to get it…”
Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer
Source: Heart of the Sea
“It is better to be feared than loved.”
Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Source: Alice in Wonderland
“It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.”
Stephen King (1947) American author
Source: Wolves of the Calla
“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”
Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.”
Arthur Conan Doyle book The White Company
The White Company (1891)
“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
" Eleonora http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.6/bookid.9/" (1841).
“That's not my love; that's just your life.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Isso não é o meu amor; é apenas a sua vida.
“If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.”
Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997) First wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
"Princess Diana: 10 most inspiring quotes from the 'people's princess'", Hello Magazine, Daily News (1 July 2015)
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. ”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
Jim Rohn (1930–2009) American motivational speaker
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”
Jimmy Johnson (1928) American Chicago blues guitarist and singer
“There is a time for many words and there is a time also for sleep.”
XI. 379 (tr. A. T. Murray).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Source: The Odyssey
“Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.”
Poppy Z. Brite (1967) Novelist, short story writer, food writer
“In every end, there is also a beginning.”
Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“I am what I am Are you what you are or What?”
Alanis Morissette (1974) Canadian-American singer-songwriter
“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
Variant: Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)
“The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe book Uncle Tom's Cabin
Source: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Ch. 40 The Martyr
Context: The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Again the Magic
“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Variant: It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
Source: The Alchemist
“There will always be a door to the light.”
Shiro Amano (1976) Japanese manga artist
Source: Kingdom Hearts, Vol. 1
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep”
Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
General sources <br class="br">Source: "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (1923) http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171621 <br class="br">Context: The woods are lovely, dark and deep.<br>But I have promises to keep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep.
“You should be kissed and often, by someone who knows how.”
Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)
Variant: You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.
Source: Gone with the Wind
“There is no escape if love is not there”
Elizabeth George Speare book The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Source: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
“Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as sheep.”
Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress
Madonna: 50 Years Of Wit And Wisdom, The Insider http://www.theinsider.com/news/1130430_Madonna_50_Years_Of_Wit_And_Wisdom,
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
Carl Sagan book Contact
Source: Contact (1985), Chapter 24 (p. 430)
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) English biologist and comparative anatomist
A favourite comment, inscribed on his memorial at Ealing, quoted in Nature Vol. XLVI (30 October 1902), p. 658
1890s
“There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it.”
Bill Bryson (1951) American author
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (US), Notes From a Big Country (UK) (1998)
“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.”
János Arany (1817–1882) Hungarian writer
As quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893) by James Wood, p. 11
“Dream by making and make by dreaming.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Seagull from Afar http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21382/Seagull_from_Afar_ <br class="br">From the poems written in English
“To all, to each, a fair good-night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light!”
L'Envoy.
Marmion (1808)
“The friends of my friends are my friends.”
John le Carré book The Mission Song
The Mission Song (2006)
“What I am is what I am. Are you what you are — or what?”
Edie Brickell (1966) singer from the United States
"What I Am"
Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988)
“That is what I want to be remembered for.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
Yours, Isaac Asimov (20 September 1973) <!-- page 329 -->
General sources
Context: What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for.
“But these are the people who never get it.”
Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) American actress
"I want everything" http://home.earthlink.net/~2lulah2/everything.htm in What I Want from Life (1934) edited by Edmund George Cousins, p. 108 <br class="br">Context: I don’t know what I want.<br>Nobody knows — or if they do, they don’t know for long. I mean, you don’t want the same thing long enough for it to be What You Want From Life in capital letters.<br>Well, maybe some people do. Maybe there's a few simple folks — or maybe a few million, I don't know — who fix their hearts, and their minds, and their everlasting souls on a thing, and keep on all their lives hoping for it. Living for it. Wanting It From Life.<br>But these are the people who never get it.
“Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.”
Brad Paisley (1972) American country music singer