Revelations of Divine Love (c. 1393), Chapter 3
Context: When I was thirty years old and a half, God sent me a bodily sickness, in which I lay three days and three nights; and on the fourth night I took all my rites of Holy Church, and weened not to have lived till day. And after this I languored forth two days and two nights, and on the third night I weened oftentimes to have passed; and so weened they that were with me.
And being in youth as yet, I thought it great sorrow to die; — but for nothing that was in earth that meliked to live for, nor for no pain that I had fear of: for I trusted in God of His mercy. But it was to have lived that I might have loved God better, and longer time, that I might have the more knowing and loving of God in bliss of Heaven. For methought all the time that I had lived here so little and so short in regard of that endless bliss, — I thought nothing.
“All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.”
Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets
Revelations of Divine Love (c. 1393), Chapter 2
“Give me three days and three nights of hard fighting, and you will be relieved.”
Statement made by Taylor to the men of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, as he circulated among the men on June 4, 1944, two days before commencement of the amphibious invasion of France, Operation Overlord. Easy Company and the entire 101st Airborne Division fought for 7 days, more than twice the promised number, before its last major fight in Normandy at the Battle of Bloody Gulch on June 13. Two days later on June 15, 9 days after the start of Mission Albany, the 101st Airborne's specific part of Overlord, was considered over. As quoted in Band of Brothers (1992) by Stephen E. Ambrose, p. 65
"How It Was", page 55
Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside (1984)
“That night, that year
Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!) my God.”
"Carrion Comfort", lines 13-14
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
1840s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s
"A Factless Autobiography", number 3, tr. by Richard Zenith
The Book of Disquiet
“In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.”
Variant: In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning.
Source: Quoted, The Crack-Up (1936)
“I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.”
Source: Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois
