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Night Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right. Things have been mended that were worse, and…
- Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of…
- The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight.
- Oh, how beautiful is the summer night, which is not night, but a sunless, yet unclouded, day, descending upon earth with dews and shadows and…
- What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months,…
- The moon is hidden behind a cloud... On the leaves is a sound of falling rain... No other sounds than these I hear; The hour…
- Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!
- After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again, And touching all the darksome woods with light, Smiles…
- Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on…
- Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
- The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
- The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
- The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the…
- And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and silently steal…
- Out of the shdows of night The world rolls into light.
- Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved and frozen camp,--…
- Look, then, into thine heart, and write! Yes, into Life's deep stream! All forms of sorrow and delight, All solemn Voices of the Night, That…
- Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return.…
- Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.
More Night Quotes
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- I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker. — Darren Aronofsky
- 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