“Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be.”
Source: Essays and Aphorisms
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Arthur Schopenhauer 261
German philosopher 1788–1860Related quotes

Source: The World as Will and Representation, Vol 2

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.

Variant: Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and i learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.