“Good days and long nights to ya, sai.”
Variant: Long days and pleasant nights.
Source: Wizard and Glass
“Death is for a long time. Those of shallow thought say that it is forever. There is, at least, a long night of it.”
On death and the nightly resurrection of the slain on Valhal, Ch. 2
Space Chantey (1968)
Context: Death is for a long time. Those of shallow thought say that it is forever. There is, at least, a long night of it. There is the forgetfulness and the loss of identity. The spirit, even as the body, is unstrung and burst and scattered. One goes down to death, and it leaves a mark on one forever.
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“Thought is only a gleam in the midst of a long night. But it is this gleam which is everything”
Source: The Value of Science (1905), Ch. 11: Science and Reality
Context: All that is not thought is pure nothingness; since we can think only thought and all the words we use to speak of things can express only thoughts, to say there is something other than thought, is therefore an affirmation which can have no meaning.
And yet—strange contradiction for those who believe in time—geologic history shows us that life is only a short episode between two eternities of death, and that, even in this episode, conscious thought has lasted and will last only a moment. Thought is only a gleam in the midst of a long night. But it is this gleam which is everything.<!--p.142
“I have always — at least, ever since I can remember — had a kind of longing for death.”
Clive Staples Lewis
(1898–1963) Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist
Psyche
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956)
Robert Penn Warren
(1905–1989) American poet, novelist, and literary critic
"A Way to Love God", New and Selected Poems 1923–1985 (1985)
Context: I cannot recall what I started to tell you, but at least
I can say how night-long I have lain under the stars and
Heard mountains moan in their sleep. By daylight,
They remember nothing, and go about their lawful occasions
Of not going anywhere except in slow disintegration. At night
They remember, however, that there is something they cannot remember.
So moan. Their's is the perfected pain of conscience that
Of forgetting the crime, and I hope you have not suffered it. I have.
“Forever isn't long at all, Christopher, as long as I'm with you.”
A.A. Milne
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Clarence Darrow
(1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
As quoted in American Dream, a Search for Justice (2003) by Sherman D. Manning, p. 125