Grotesque Quote by Wallace Stevens

Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes,…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It's easy to forget that when you're indoors, protected by light and solid walls.

— Cornelia Funke

“A Word with Jose Rodriguez-Feo" As one of the secretaries of the moon The queen of ignorance, you have deplored How she presides over…

— Wallace Stevens

The night is just a part of the day

— Paulo Coelho

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night. Primitive folk, gathered…

— Henry Beston

“The daylight changes the aspect of misery to us, as of everything else. In the night it presses on our imagination—the forms it takes…

— George Eliot

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be…

— Ernest Hemingway

Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within…

— Guy de Maupassant

“You mustn’t be afraid of the dark,” he said, gently grasping my arm and making me shudder. “Night is purer than day; it is…

— Elie Wiesel

Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.

— Dorothy Richardson