Quotes from work
Night-Thoughts
The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, better known simply as Night-Thoughts, is a long poem by Edward Young published in nine parts between 1742 and 1745.
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 417.
“Too low they build who build beneath the stars.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 206.
Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VIII
“Like our shadows,
Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 661.
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 160.
“How blessings brighten as they take their flight!”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 602.
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 23.
“He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 24.
“That life is long which answers life's great end.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 773.
“Much learning shows how little mortals know;
Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VI, Line 519.
“All men think all men mortal but themselves.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 424.
