„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)
Quotes about the night
A collection of quotes on the topic of night.
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„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)
„There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be driven out of the heart like the moneychangers from the temple. Maybe they can, if you patrol your weak points day and night, don't look, don't smell, don't dream.“
— Jeanette Winterson English writer 1959
Written on the Body (1992)
„As when Eolus heaven's fair face deforms, Enwrapp'd in tempest and a night of storms; Astonish'd ocean feels the wild uproar, The refluent surges beat the sounding shore; Or thick as leaves in Autumn's golden reign“
— Phillis Wheatley American poet 1753 - 1784
1770s, To His Excellency, George Washington (1775)
„In the bathtub. My dad came in and said, "Guess who they want to play Harry Potter?" I think I said the name of another actor, because I was sure it wasn't me. Then he said, "No, it's you," and I started to cry with joy. That night, I woke up at 2 in the morning and woke up mom and dad and asked, "Am I dreaming? Will I really play Harry Potter?"“
— Daniel Radcliffe English actor 1989
About getting the part of Harry Potter http://www.danradcliffe.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23&Itemid=28
„I feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games.“
— Magnus Carlsen Norwegian chess player 1990
ChessBase.com - Magnus Carlsen on his chess career, 15 March 2010 http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6187
„One night comes suddenly, I will add your kingdom to my empire.“
— Mehmed II Ottoman sultan 1432 - 1481
Source: Freely, John (The Grand Turk)
„How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?“
— Dr. Seuss American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books 1904 - 1991
„The night is my best friend. It calms the storm in my soul and it lets the guiding stars rise.“
— Joseph Goebbels Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister 1897 - 1945
Die Nacht ist meine beste Freundin. Sie glättet den Sturm in der Seele und lässt die weisenden Sterne aufgehen.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
„I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.“
— Arthur Rimbaud French Decadent and Symbolist poet 1854 - 1891
Source: A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat
„Desire to sleep has vanished now,
Spring has arrived in the night
In the wake of a storm.“
— Hermann Hesse, book Gertrud
Source: Gertrude (1910), p. 164
Context: The south winds roars at night,
Curlews hasten in their flight,
The air is damp and warm.
Desire to sleep has vanished now,
Spring has arrived in the night
In the wake of a storm.
„If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day.“
— Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996
Variant: For every dark night, there's a brighter day.
„It had been a long journey. Tien Pao had lost count of all the days and nights. But all those nights when the horns of the new moon had stood dimly in the sky, Tien Pao and his father and mother had pushed the sampan on and on against the currents of the endless rivers. Day and night. There was no stopping even at night. "We won't stop until we drop," Tien Pao's father had kept saying over and over. "And we won't drop until we are far inside this great land of China. Far from the sea-for where the sea is, there the Japanese invaders are."“
— Meindert DeJong, book The House of Sixty Fathers
The House of Sixty Fathers (1956)
„A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.“
— Marilyn vos Savant US American magazine columnist, author and lecturer 1946
As quoted in What Type Am I? : Discover Who You Really Are (1998) by Renee Baron, p. 110
„Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that we use it to illuminate our cities, guide our airlines through the night skies and take the most accurate measurements. What strange rationale makes some physicists accept the inconceivable electrons as real while refusing to accept the reality of a Designer on the ground that they cannot conceive Him?“
— Wernher von Braun German, later an American, aerospace engineer and space architect 1912 - 1977
In letter to California State board of Education (14 September 1972)
„UFC is definitely a younger guy’s sport. Our target audience is anywhere from age 17 to 35. And our fighters will be household names. Where I’d like to see it is like it is in Japan right now. We were just over there [on August 10, 2003] with Chuck Liddell, who was representing UFC in a UFC versus PRIDE fight. And he knocked out Alistair Overeem in the first round [3:09] of the PRIDE Grand Prix Elimination tournament. That was awesome, man. Chuck couldn’t leave the place on Monday morning. He went to go shopping, to buy some things for his family, and he was swarmed for forty-five minutes. The mall security had to pull him out of there and throw him in a car. There were thirty seven thousand people at the event, and it was the first time the tournament was shown on free TV. So millions of people saw him fight that night – not only in Japan, but in the US.“
— Dana White President of the UFC 1969
„Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.“
— Victor Hugo French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802 - 1885
Part 2, Book 1, Ch. 2
Variant translation: What makes night within us may leave stars.
Source: Ninety-Three (1874)
Context: Cimourdain was a pure-minded but gloomy man. He had "the absolute" within him. He had been a priest, which is a solemn thing. Man may have, like the sky, a dark and impenetrable serenity; that something should have caused night to fall in his soul is all that is required. Priesthood had been the cause of night within Cimourdain. Once a priest, always a priest.
Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.
„Erik is not truly dead. He lives on within the souls of those who choose to listen to the music of the night.“
— Gaston Leroux, book The Phantom of the Opera
Source: The Phantom of the Opera