70 great quotes about Night (and proverbs)

The darkness and magic of the night are reflected in these famous quotes.

The night has a special mystery. It is in this phase of the day that exceptional things happen. We fall in love, we kiss, we go crazy... there is something about the night that makes us feel life with a strange halo of unreality.

Many writers and thinkers have talked about the night and its idiosyncrasies. What is it about the night that changes people?

Phrases about the night

In today's article we are going to discover the best phrases about the night written by thinkers, poets and philosophers of all historical eras.

If you think we have forgotten any famous quotes about the night that deserve to appear in this post, feel free to add them in the comments section. Are you ready?

1. The night is no less wonderful than the day, no less divine; at night the stars shine, and there are revelations that the day ignores. (Nikolaj Berdjaev)

It is in that instant that the galaxy makes its presence known.

2. The days appear different from each other, but the night has only one name. (Elias Canetti)

Darkness makes one night indistinguishable from another.

3. The day has eyes, the night has ears. (Proverb)

A proverb about the night that can make us reflect.

4. I love the night, because at night all colors are the same and I am the same as the others... (Bob Marley)

A phrase of the great reggae artist, in allusion to racism.

5. Who art thou that, hidden in the night, enterest into my secret thoughts? (William Shakespeare)

Famous love quote.

6. And I like at night to listen to the stars, which sound like five hundred million bells. (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)

From the author of The Little Prince.

7. The night is warm, the night is long, the night is magnificent for listening to stories. (Antonio Tabucchi)

A special climate for dreaming.

8. It is at night that one can better perceive the roar of the heart, the clatter of anxiety, the murmur of the impossible and the silence of the world. (Fabrizio Caramagna)

An opportunity to show one's feelings.

9. Who knows why the night, like rubber, is of infinite elasticity and softness, while the morning is so cruelly sharp. (Banana Yoshimoto)

An apt comparison between these phases of the day.

10. At night everything assumes lighter, more nuanced, almost magical forms. Everything is sweetened and attenuated, even the wrinkles of the face and the wrinkles of the soul. (Romano Battaglia)

The mystical appearance in the darkness.

11. The day gasps with urgency. Only the night allows itself to breathe. (Fabrizio Caramagna)

On the deep calm that one breathes in the night.

12. I know little about the night but the night seems to know about me, and even more, it assists me as if it loved me, it covers my conscience with its stars. Perhaps the night is life and the sun is death. Perhaps the night is nothing and the conjectures about it nothing and the beings that live it nothing. (Alejandra Pizarnik)

A great poetic phrase.

13. There is a dead point in the night, the blackest and coldest hour, when the world has forgotten the sunset and the dawn is still no promise. A time when it is too early to get up, but so late that going to bed makes no sense. (Robin Hobb)

Along the lines of the previous one, a famous quote about the night that can make us reflect.

14. The darker the night, the brighter the stars. The deeper the pain, the closer God is. (Fëdor Dostoyevsky)

A metaphor to apply to life.

15. Nights when all the letters of the alphabet return to their burrows. There is nothing left but silence. (Fabrizio Caramagna)

Phrase of the Italian philosopher.

16. I often think that the night is more alive and richer of colors than the day. (Vincent van Gogh)

From the great Dutch painter.

17. Night is really the best time to work, all the ideas are there for you, because everyone is sleeping. (Catherine O'Hara)

A time to give free rein to creativity.

18. Man's greatest sin is to sleep at night, when the universe is willing to let itself be watched. (Lilaschon, Twitter)

Are you nocturnal?

19. Attention to the fears of the day, they love to steal the dreams of the night. (Fabrizio Caramagna)

Incredible phrase full of poetry.

20. When I feel a need for religion, I go out at night to paint the stars. (Vincent van Gogh)

Perhaps the most accurate religion.

21. I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night, without thinking that the night graces us because it suppresses idle details, like memory. (Jorge Luis Borges)

Famous quote full of melancholy.

22. And I hope that beyond the night the taste of a new blue awaits me, I hope... (Nazim Hikmet)

A phrase of longing.

23. Night, the beloved. Night, when words disappear and things come to life. When the destructive analysis of the day is over and what is really important becomes whole again and resonates. When man mends his fragmented self and grows with the calm of the tree. (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)

Another reflection of the brilliant French author.

24. The moon: there are nights when it seems to produce a white honey of dreams, solitude and silence. (Fabrizio Caramagna)

The mystical side of the moon.

25. Night is half of life, and the better half. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

A time slot full of positive things.

26. The silence of the night, which reshapes the confusion of the day. As if the night were light. (Don Dino Pirri)

Famous paradox.

27. In your life I wish you at least one blackout in a limpid night. (Mario Rigoni Stern)

In these cases the birth rate usually rises after nine months.

28. The night is the quietest time to work. It helps thinking. (Alexander Graham Bell)

On the creativity generated by darkness.

29. It is the night that is good for believing in light. (Edmond Rostand)

One of those phrases about the night that we must remember.

30. In the Heart of all winters lives a throbbing spring, and behind every night, comes a smiling dawn. (Khalil Gibran)

There is always a just and beautiful end.

31. Don't try to solve serious things in the middle of the night. (Philip K. Dick)

Perhaps it is not the best time to make decisions.

32. The night has the shape of what you're missing. (iBlulady)

It can give us things we do not possess.

33. And after a journey full of colors scattered here and there and roads crisscrossing in a thousand directions comes the calm night, like forgiveness for a heresy. (Fabrizio Caramagna)

A great phrase with poetic overtones.

34. Sometimes at night I lie awake in bed and wonder, "Where have I failed?". Then a voice says to me, "It will take more than one night for this to happen." (Charles M. Schulz)

The night can serve to reflect on our failures.

35. A man is a very small thing, and the night is very long and full of portents. (Edward Plunkett)

Life at your feet.

36. The day is the father of work and the night is the mother of thoughts. (Proverb)

A good way to describe it.

37. It seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night occupied all the air. (Charles Dickens)

A great phrase of the English writer.

38. The moon and the Pleiades have set; it is already midnight; the hours advance, but I sleep alone. (Sappho)

Reflection from ancient Greece.

39. The night conceals defects and is indulgent to all imperfections; at that hour, every woman seems beautiful. (Ovid)

The goodness of shadows.

40. At night, an atheist half believes in God. (Edward Young)

His mysticism changes us.

41. Come, thou black-fronted, sweet, loving night, give me my Romeo; and when he dies, make him thine, and share him in little stars: the face of heaven shall be so beautified by him that the whole world shall be impassioned with night, and no longer worship the splendid sun. (William Shakespeare)

Sentence about the night by the British writer.

42. To walk at night in the open air, under the silent sky, beside a river of still waters is always mysterious and stirs the depths of the soul. In those moments we are closer to our origins, we feel our proximity to animals and plants, we awaken memories of a primitive life, when houses and cities had not yet been built and the wandering man, without fixed ground, could love and hate the forest, the river and the mountain, the wolf and the goshawk as his fellow men, as friends or enemies. (Hermann Hesse)

The German philosopher speaks thus about nocturnal experiences.

43. You can't change everything in one night but one night can change everything. (John Updike)

And nothing will ever be the same.

44. The night is longer than the day for those who dream and the day is longer than the night for those who make their dreams come true. (Jack Kerouac)

A great reflection on longing.

45. I am convinced that when you think you have all the answers, the night changes all your questions. (Charlie Brown, Charles M. Schulz)

Just play by different rules.

46. If you think about one thing at three o'clock in the morning and then rethink it the next day at noon, you come to different conclusions. (Charlie Brown)

Who hasn't had this happen to them?

47. The darkest hour is the one that comes before the rising of the sun. (Paulo Coelho)

Reflection of the Brazilian writer.

48. Think in the morning, work at noon, eat in the afternoon and sleep at night. (William Blake)

A recommendation to organize yourself better.

49. The night has a thousand eyes, the day has only one. (Francis William Bourdillon)

The differences between phases of the day.

50. You can sleep wrapped like a sheet floating gently down, tickling your skin and eliminating all worries. Remembering to consider only this moment. (Jeb Dickerson)

Poetry in its purest form.

51. I believe that we dream so that we don't have to be apart so much. If we are in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time. (A. A. Milne)

A way to bring hearts closer together.

52. You know you're in love when you can't sleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. (Dr. Seuss)

Emotional and vital ecstasy.

53. And if tonight my soul can find its peace in sleep, and sink into the goodness of oblivion, and in the morning awake like a new flower just opened, I shall again have imbibed God, and be recreated. (D. H. Lawrence)

On the divine figure.

54. Last night I dreamed of you. I was alone in a dark night and you came to me like a firefly. I knew it was you because you were the brightest. (Crystal Woods)

A love phrase related to the night and its magic.

55. I like the night. Without the darkness, we would never see the stars. (Stephenie Meyer)

Nice reflection, as well as true.

56. If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how men would believe in them and worship them, and preserve for many generations the memory of the city of God shown to them! Yet these emissaries of beauty come night after night and light up the universe with their admonitory smile. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

About the stars.

57. Good night, may you fall asleep in the arms of a dream so beautiful that you will weep when you wake. (Michael Faudet)

A beautiful wish.

58. I love the silent hour of the night, For blissful dreams may arise, Revealing to my enchanted sight. What to my waking eyes may not bless. (Anne Brontë)

At this time unique things are likely to happen.

59. My beauty sleep, sleep sweet dreams. You are the only one who has touched my heart. I will always be yours. Sleep my only love. (Stephenie Meyer)

A declaration of love.

60. Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow that I'll say good night till it be to-morrow. (William Shakespeare)

A way of not resigning oneself to say goodbye.

61. The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always live in the dark, to be seen. (Shannon L. Alder)

A paradox as real as it is beautiful.

62. I have loved the stars too dearly to be afraid of the night. (Sarah Williams)

The extreme emotions generated by the night.

63. "This is the end. Now not only the day will be loved, but the night will also be beautiful and blessed, and all your fear will pass away. (JRR Tolkien)

From the author of The Lord of the Rings.

64. During the night, the world rests. Trees, mountains, fields and faces are released from the prison of form and visibility. Under cover of darkness, each thing takes refuge in its own nature. Darkness is the ancient matrix. Night is the time of the womb. Our souls go out to Play. Darkness absolves all; the struggle for identity and impression ceases. We rest during the night. (John O'Donohue)

A phrase for Mother Nature.

65. Those who dream by day have knowledge of many things which escape those who dream only by night. (Edgar Allan Poe)

About creative minds, which are capable of dreaming while awake.

66. Today I wish to say good night to the one who makes me happy with a simple smile, to the one who looks me in the eyes and understands me, and to the one who makes me rise to heaven with a simple word. (Haruki Murakami)

From the Japanese writer.

67. The longest road has its end; the dreariest night ends with the coming of morning. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)

The waters always return to their course.

68. The stars cannot shine without the darkness. (Esther Dean)

A beautiful reality.

69. The night suggests, not teaches. The night finds us and surprises us by its strangeness; it liberates in us the forces that, during the day, are dominated by reason. (Brassai)

On the characteristics of the night.

70. Night much more night: love is already a fact. (Jorge Guillén)

A love poem.