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Night Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I do not believe…
- Invariably our best nights were those when it rained.
- We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.
- Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of…
- Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventure. Let the noon find you by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at…
- The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.
- The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. A companion with whom I was sailing one…
- Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction -…
- I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk…
- The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.
- I sailed on the North River last night with my flute, and my music was a tinkling stream which meandered with the river, and fell…
- Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, - passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely…
- Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be…
- Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the navigation of space,…
- Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
- I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.
- If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more…
- The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an…
- In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on…
- Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go to a west as distant and as fair as that into which the…
- It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies,…
- After a still winter night I awoke with the impression that some question had been put to me, which I had been endeavoring in vain…
- In some of those dense fir andspruce woods there is hardly room for the smoke to go up. The trees are a standing night,and every…
- Far in the night, as we were falling asleep on the bank of the Merrimack, we heard some tyro beating a drum incessantly, in preparation…
More Night Quotes
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- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on… — Paul Auster
- What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the… — Paul Auster
- Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky,… — Sai Baba
- I do Skid Row every night. — Sebastian Bach
- The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not… — Gaston Bachelard
- A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. — Honore de Balzac
- Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the… — Honore de Balzac
- Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself and the… — Antonio Banderas