„This is not good. This is not right. My feet stick out of bed all night. And when I pull them in, oh dear! My head sticks out of bed out here!“
— Dr. Seuss American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books 1904 - 1991
Quotes about the night
A collection of quotes on the topic of night.
Related topicsTotal 3888 quotes night, filter:
„I can’t believe how fast 20 years went by. I mean, this is crazy… To be standing here, standing on the court with my teammates behind me, and appreciate this journey that we’ve been along… I grew up a die heart—I mean it—a die heart Laker fan. Die heart. I mean, I knew everything about every players’ that had played here. So, to be drafted, and then traded to this organization, and to spend 20 years here, I mean, you can’t write something better than this… The thing that had me crackin’ me up all night long was, in fact, I go though 20 years of everybody screaming, ‘pass the ball!’ and I was like, ‘No passing!’ (laugh)… (I also have to thank) my family: my wife, Vanessa, my daughters, Natalia and Gianna. Thank you guys for your sacrifice… What can I say? Mamba Out!“
— Kobe Bryant American basketball player 1978 - 2020
A speech after Bryant's last game, 13 April 2016, posted on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg0mxPXIpLY&t=5s.
„What is man’s life but love, love of self;
Man is dust, dust as his passion, dust as the beloved.Death, it is your great act of piety for man –
You take him to your house or he’d be left to himself.Death is a covenant between the lover and the beloved;
Death is a secret wedlock between being and non-being.Death harbors the hidden port of life’s ocean;
Death is helpless and a vision of beauty to itself.Death is the only witness of my life and your grace,
And O strange lord, of night and the crescent.“
— Ghani Khan Pakistani poet 1914 - 1996
Death, st. 8-12
„"What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself."“
— Emil M. Cioran, book The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
„It’s like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.“
— E.L. Doctorow novelist, editor, professor 1931 - 2015
On his writing style
Interview in Writers at Work (1988)
Variant: Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
Source: Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews
„One night I was walking on the street by a commercial area close to my neighborhood. I passed by a big garbage container. and I stopped, then with an oil stick bar I wrote, “I am CLANDESTINE CULTURE. Welcome to my World.” I didn't know why I did it, but I did it and it worked. I was feeling better after that. I released all my anger and all my frustration in just one phrase: CLANDESTINE CULTURE.“
— Clandestine Culture American artist 1970
http://artdistricts.com/clandestine-culture-between-street-art-and-social-activism/
„One night comes suddenly, I will add your kingdom to my empire.“
— Mehmed II Ottoman sultan 1432 - 1481
Source: Freely, John (The Grand Turk)
„I’d ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you, and I did.“
— Daniel Handler, book Why We Broke Up
Source: Why We Broke Up
„Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.“
— Victor Hugo, book Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables
„The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself.“
— Patricia Highsmith, book Strangers on a Train
Source: Strangers on a Train
„With Romeo and Juliet, you're talking about two people who meet one night, and get married the same night. I believe in love at first sight-but it hasn't happened to me yet.“
— Leonardo DiCaprio American actor and film producer 1974
http://www.popmonk.com/actors/leonardo-dicaprio/quotes-leonardo-dicaprio.htm
„The oppressor must be harassed until his doom. He must have no peace by day or by night. The slaves have always outnumbered the slavemasters. The power of the oppressor rests upon the submission of the people.“
— Huey P. Newton Co-founder of the Black Panther Party 1942 - 1989
From "In Defense of Self-defense" I (June 20, 1967)
To Die For The People
„Who rides, so late, through night and wind?
It is the father with his child.“
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Der Erlkönig
Der Erlkönig (1782)
Context: Who rides, so late, through night and wind?
It is the father with his child.
He holds the boy in the crook of his arm
He holds him safe, he keeps him warm.
„Reading is the greatest thing ever, I've read alot that I know what very few people know… That the stars in the night sky are suns and that there are earth-like planets orbiting those stars, meaning there are other planets like earth out there… Reading is great“
— Cornelius Keagon Liberian humanitarian aid worker 1996
„Listen,
if stars are still lit it means there is someone who needs them.
It means someone wants to love,
Why then do we feel so much pain and heaviness of heart?
are we waiting for something, regretting anything?
To whom I can strech out my hand in the somber desert?
Who will accompany me on the empty night?
Who will give me a fiery day?
Who will bring back the sea that left?
No hope here. Torment is certain.
Without sacredness in the emptiness of this world of ours,
the heart of man fades like a flower.
Suddenly, the shuddering of the heavens penetrating my soul,
Oh never let the parting sun, no star is ever lost we once have seen, the long rains will continue to fall.“
— Alexis Karpouzos 1967
Source: Song THE HEART OF MAN
„Go girl, seek happy nights to happy days“
— William Shakespeare English playwright and poet 1564 - 1616
„On a night full of symbols
The moon is like an invalid's pallid face
Like a mistaken shifted time
And death, like a doctor standing before the bed“
— Duo Duo Poet 1951
"Night" (1973), p. 9
The Boy who Catches Wasps (2002)
„Thy soft-breathed hopes with magic might
Have chased from my soul the shades of night“
— Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon Canadian writer 1829 - 1879
from The Parting Soul and her Guardian Angel