Night

(309 votes)   Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery
1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer

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(219 votes)   Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(158 votes)   Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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(136 votes)   And the night shall be filled with music, and the cares, that infest the day, shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, and as silently steal away.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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(115 votes)   Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.

Leigh Hunt
1784-1859, British Poet, Essayist

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(102 votes)   Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(101 votes)   Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(95 votes)   Press close bare-bosomed night -- press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! mad naked summer night.

Walt Whitman
1819-1892, American Poet

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(92 votes)   I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

Jorge Luis Borges
1899-1986, Argentinean Author

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(82 votes)   O comfort-killing night, image of hell, dim register and notary of shame, black stage for tragedies and murders fell, vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(74 votes)   Shadows fall on even the brightest hours.

Bryan Waller Proctor

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