“Night is a world lit by itself.”
Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

“I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”
Vincent Van Gogh

“Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.”
Catherine O’Hara

“Moonlight is sculpture.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Mine is the night, with all her stars.”
Edward Young

“Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.”
Seneca

“Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.”
Samuel Johnson

“No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.”
Llewelyn Powys

“Dreams permit each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.”
William Dement

“If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.”
Bill Watterson

“After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. After every storm, there comes clear, open slies.”
Emogirl Samuel Rutherford

“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 light and of the world.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson