Quotes about the night

A collection of quotes on the topic of night.

„People may not like to meet bandits, especially on a dark night, but a taste for reading about them seems to be universal.“

— Eric Hobsbawm British academic historian and Marxist historiographer 1917 - 2012
Bandits (1969), Preface to Pantheon Edition

People, Universe, Reading

„In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.“

— Judy Garland actress, singer and vaudevillian from the United States 1922 - 1969

Love, People, Silence

„Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.“

— Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems

Light, Rage

„I feel that if I am busting my arse, if I am stretching at night, if I am working hard in the gym, if I am doing all of my extras out on the field, if I am the first one there and the last to leave or whatever, and if I am giving my all every game, then I deserve to be the man I want to be rather than the man other people want me to be.“

— Sonny Bill Williams New Zealand rugby player and heavyweight boxer 1985
Williams on the controversial nature of his flitting between football codes. Sonny Bill Williams regrets nothing http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/sonny-bill-williams-regrets-nothing-20131129-2yfvd.html, by Brad Walter, Sydney Morning Herald, dated 29 November 2013.

People, Feeling, Game

„Deep into the night, people I’ve known descend around me and deliver whispering reminders of moments abandoned.“

— RJ Intindola (Gandolfo)
1983

People

„The world know it not; but you, Autumn, I confess it: your wind at night-fall stabs deep into my heart“

— Murasaki Shikibu, book The Tale of Genji

World, Autumn, Heart

„I have a really interesting political point of view, and it’s not always something I say too loud at dinner tables here, but you can’t go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary and really understand it and come out a liberal. You can’t. I wouldn’t wish that experience on anyone else, but it was very, very, very educational for me and has informed my proclivities and politics ever since.“

— Robert Downey Jr. American actor 1965
Quoted in David Carr, "Been Up, Been Down. Now? Super." http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/movies/20carr.html?_r=4&pagewanted=2&8dpc&oref=slogin&, New York Times (2008-04-20)

Education, Understanding

„The murderer smiles palely in wine,
Death's horror grips the sick.
Excoriated and naked, the nun prays
Before the Savior's agony on the cross.

The mother sings quietly in sleep.
Peacefully the child looks into the night
With eyes that are completely truthful.
In the whorehouse laughter rings.

By candlelight down in the cellar hole
The dead one paints with white hand
A grinning silence on the wall.
The sleeper whispers still.“

— Georg Trakl austrian poet 1887 - 1914
"Romance in the Night"

Death, Truth, Smile, Laughter

„Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.“

— Henry Rollins American singer-songwriter 1961

Life, Beauty, Loneliness

„Dear Mr. President,
Come take a walk with me.
Let's pretend we're just two people
And you're not better than me.
I'd like to ask you some questions
If we can speak honestly.What do you feel when you see
All the homeless on the street?
Who do you pray for at night
Before you go to sleep?
What do you feel
When you look in the mirror?
Are you proud?“

— Pink (singer) American singer-songwriter 1979
Song lyrics, I'm Not Dead (2006), Dear Mr. President, featuring the Indigo Girls, written by Pink and Billy Mann

People, Feeling, Question, Sleep

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„The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.“

— T. H. White, book The Book of Merlyn
The Book of Merlyn (1977)

Love, Lie, World, Sadness

„Women are beautiful in the light of the day, but are even more so in the shadows of the night.“

— Andrzej Majewski Polish writer and photographer 1966
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)

Women, Beauty, Light

„Stars," she whispered. "I can see the stars again, my lady."
A tear trickled down Artemis's cheek. "Yes, my brave one. They are beautiful tonight."
Stars," Zoe repeated. Her eyes fixed on the night sky. And she did not move again.“

— Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse

Beauty, Star, Tear

„Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?'

'To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.'

'The dog did nothing in the night-time.'

'That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.“

— Arthur Conan Doyle, book The Adventure of Silver Blaze

Dogs, Time, Drawing

„Alright sir,
Sure I'll have another one, it's early.
Three olives, shake it up, I like it dirty (dirty).
Tequila for my friend it makes her flirty (flirty).
Trust me.
I'm the instigator of underwear,
Showing up here and there uh oh (oh no).
I'm always on a mission from the get go.
So what if it's only 1 o'clock in the afternoon?
It's never too soon to send out all the invitations to the last night“

— Pink (singer) American singer-songwriter 1979
Song lyrics, Funhouse (2008), of your life Bad Influence, written by Pink, Billy Mann, Butch Walker, and Robin Mortensen Lynch & Niklas Olovson

Life

„The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.“

— Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist 1844 - 1900

Suicide

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