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Night Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying gestures. And in…
- A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the nature othe beast.…
- Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
- The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.
- We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.
- In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact…
- There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give…
- The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of…
- The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties…
- The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its…
- We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own…
- When the night is darkest, the stars come out.
- Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age,…
- Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as…
- Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.
- Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall Shadows of the thoughts of day, And thy fortunes, as they fall, The bias of the will betray.
- If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
- If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of…
- Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted,…
- But, if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from these heavenly worlds, will separate between him…
- The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who…
- Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds, or…
- For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy…
- The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui, vanish, - all duties…
- Night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree.
More Night Quotes
- I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches. — Fred Armisen
- 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