Air Quote by William Batchelder Greene

Those who cannot be aggressive are hunted down while they shiver and hide because the night is dark.

— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

“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

Our civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and…

— Henry Beston

They are asleep. This is the condition they prefer. They are afraid of the world and sleep is a way of dealing with their…

— Stephen Dobyns

For the night is dark and full of terrors.

— Anonymous

I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.

— Bill Watterson

I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about.

— Daniel Handler

For there is nothing quite so terror-inducing as the loss of sleep. It creates phantoms and doubts, causes one to questions one's own abilities…

— Charlie Huston

“It is not true as is romantically presumed that people frightened or injured or persecuted are wakeful. More often than not they retire into…

— John Steinbeck

“I'm also discovering that while they seem to believe that I do not require sleep, my husband (who also doubles as their father) has…

— Dallas Louis

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

For a while they stood there, like men on the edge of a sleep where nightmare lurks, holding it off, though they know that…

— Anonymous