90 Great Famous Phrases About The Night (and Proverbs)
The night has a special mystery It is in this phase of the day when 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 spoken about the night and its idiosyncrasies. What is it about the night that changes people?
In today’s article we are going to discover the best phrases about the night that thinkers, poets and philosophers from all historical periods have written.
If you think that we have forgotten any famous quote about the night that deserves to appear in this post, do not hesitate to add it in the comments section. Are you prepared?
1. The night is no less wonderful than the day, it is no less divine; At night the stars shine, and there are revelations that the day ignores. (Nikolaj Berdjaev)
It is at that moment that the galaxy makes an appearance.
2. The days appear different from each other, but the night has a single name. (Elias Canetti)
The 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 the colors are the same and I am the same as the others… (Bob Marley)
A phrase from the great reggae artist, alluding to racism.
5. Who are you who, hidden at night, enter my secret thoughts? (William Shakespeare)
Famous love quote.
6. And at night I like 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 great for listening to stories. (Antonio Tabucchi)
A special climate to dream.
8. It is at night that the roar of the heart, the clatter of anxiety, the murmur of the impossible and the silence of the world are best perceived. (Fabrizio Caramagna)
9. Who knows why the night, like rubber, is of infinite elasticity and softness, while the morning is so cruelly sharp. (Banana Yoshimoto)
An accurate comparison between these phases of the day.
10. At night everything takes on lighter, more nuanced, almost magical forms. Everything is sweetened and attenuated, even the wrinkles on the face and those of the soul. (Romano Battaglia)
The mystical appearance in the darkness.
11. The day pants urgently. Only the night is allowed to breathe. (Fabrizio Caramagna)
About the deep calm that is breathed at 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. Maybe the night is life and the sun is death. Maybe the night is nothing and the conjectures about it nothing and the beings who live it nothing. (Alejandra Pizarnik)
A great poetic phrase.
13. There is a dead end 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)
In line with 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 Dostoevsky)
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)
16. I often think that the night is more alive and richer in colors than the day. (Vincent van Gogh)
By 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 moment to unleash creativity.
18. The greatest sin of man is sleeping at night, when the universe is willing to let itself be watched. (Lilaschon, Twitter)
Are you nocturnal?
19. Pay 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 it pleases us because it suppresses the idle details, such as 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 has concluded and what is truly important becomes whole and resonates again. When man darns his being, he fragments and grows with the calm of the tree. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
Another reflection from the brilliant French author.
24. The moon: there are nights when it seems to produce a white honey of dreams, loneliness and silence. (Fabrizio Caramagna)
The mystical side of the moon.
25. The night is half of life, and the best 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 on a clear night. (Mario Rigoni Stern)
In these cases the birth rate usually increases after nine months.
28. Night is the quietest time to work. Helps thinking. (Alexander Graham Bell)
About the creativity that darkness generates.
29. It is the night that is good to believe in the light. (Edmond Rostand)
One of those phrases about the night that we must remember.
30. In the heart of every winter there lives a pulsating spring, and behind each night, comes a smiling dawn. (Khalil Gibran)
There is always a fair and beautiful ending.
31. Don’t try to solve serious things in the middle of the night. (Philip K. Dick)
Maybe it’s not the best time to make decisions.
32. The night has the shape of what you are missing. (iBlulady)
It can give us things that we do not possess.
33. And after a day full of colors scattered here and there and roads that intersect in a thousand directions, the calm night arrives, like forgiveness for a heresy. (Fabrizio Caramagna)
A great phrase with poetic overtones.
34. Sometimes at night I lie awake in bed and ask myself: “Where have I failed?” Then a voice tells me: “This will take more than one night.” (Charles M. Schulz)
The night can be used 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 that the night occupied all the air. (Charles Dickens)
A great phrase from the English writer.
38. The moon and the Pleiades have set; It’s already midnight; The hours go by, but I sleep alone. (Sappho)
Reflection from ancient Greece.
39. The night hides defects and is indulgent with all imperfections; At that time, every woman looks beautiful. (Ovid)
The benefits of shadows.
40. At night, an atheist half believes in God. (Edward Young)
Its mysticism changes us.
41. Come, you, the one with the black forehead, sweet, loving night, give me my Romeo; and when he dies, make him yours and share him in small stars: the face of the sky will be so beautified by him that the entire world will become passionate about the night and will no longer worship the splendid sun. (William Shakespeare)
Phrase about the night from the British writer.
42. Walking at night outdoors, under the silent sky, next to a river with calm 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 or cities had not yet been built and wandering man, without fixed land, could love and hate the forest, the river and the mountain, the wolf and the goshawk as their peers, as friends or enemies. (Hermann Hesse)
The German philosopher speaks this way about nocturnal experiences.
43. You can’t change everything in one night but one night can change everything. (John Updike)
And nothing will 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 desires.
45. I am convinced that when you think you have all the answers, the night changes all your questions. (Charlie Brown, Charles M. Schulz)
Simply play by other rules.
46. If you think about one thing at three in the morning and then think about it again the next day at noon, you come to different conclusions. (Charlie Brown)
Who has not happened?
47. The darkest hour is the one that comes before the sunrise. (Paulo Coelho)
Reflection of the Brazilian writer.
48. Think in the morning, act at noon, eat in the afternoon and sleep at night. (William Blake)
A recommendation to organize better.
49. The night has a thousand eyes, the day only one. (Francis William Bourdillon)
The differences between phases of the day.
50. You can sleep wrapped like a sheet gently floating down, tickling your skin and washing away all worries. Remembering to consider only this moment. (Jeb Dickerson)
Poetry in its purest form.
51. I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we are in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time. (AA Milne)
A way to bring hearts closer together.
52. You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep 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 wake up like a new flower just opened, I will have imbibed God again, and I will be recreated. (D.H. Lawrence)
About the divine figure.
54. Last night I dreamed about you. I was alone on 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 darkness, we would never see the stars. (Stephenie Meyer)
Nice reflection, as well as true.
56. If the stars appeared 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 that was shown to them! However, these emissaries of beauty arrive night after night and illuminate 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 cry when you wake up. (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 my awakened eyes may not bless. (Anne Bronte)
Unique things are likely to happen at this time.
59. My beauty sleep, may you have 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! Farewell is such a sweet sorrow that I will say goodnight until it is tomorrow. (William Shakespeare)
A way of not resigning yourself to saying goodbye.
61. The moon will guide you through the night with its 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 that the night generates.
63. “This is the end.” Now not only will the day 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 freed from the prison of form and visibility. Under the cover of darkness, each thing takes refuge in its own nature. Darkness is the ancient matrix. The night is the time of the womb. Our souls come out to play. Darkness absolves everything; the struggle for identity and impression ceases. We rested during the night. (John O’Donohue)
A phrase for Mother Nature.
65. Those who dream during the day have knowledge of many things that escape those who only dream at night. (Edgar Allan Poe)
About creative minds, which are capable of dreaming while awake.
66. Today I want to say goodnight to the one who makes me happy with a simple smile, to the one who by looking into my eyes understands me and to the one who makes me go up to heaven with a simple word. (Haruki Murakami)
From the Japanese writer.
67. The longest path has its end; The darkest night ends with the arrival of morning. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
The waters always return to their channel.
68. The stars cannot shine without darkness. (Ester Dean)
A beautiful reality.
69. The night suggests, it does not teach. The night finds us and surprises us with its strangeness; she releases in us the forces that, during the day, are dominated by reason. (Brassai)
About the characteristics of the night.
70. Night much more night: love is already a fact. (Jorge Guillén)
A love poem.
71. At night all cats are brown. (Saying)
A saying that refers to the poor visibility at night and the impossibility of guessing the intentions of the pedestrians we encounter.
72. It is during the night when it is beautiful to believe in light. (Edmond Rostand)
A very poetic image that encourages us not to lose hope no matter how hard a situation is.
73. The night is for seeing dreams and the day is for making them come true.
A phrase full of optimism that can help us make our dreams come true.
74. The night is young.
A phrase that encourages us to take advantage of the night in a festive context.
75. Come closer. Next to the night I wait for you. Swim me. Deep and cold fountains fan my current. (Carmen Conde)
This poet was one of the most respected voices in poetry at the beginning of the 20th century.
76. For the poor man, even his wedding night is short. (Saying)
A somewhat humorous saying about the poor conditions of people with few resources.
77. And I think of Bonnie and Clyde, Together they knew how to die, While you and I, The eternal night, without end (Love of lesbian)
One of the most beautiful love verses from this Barcelona indie group.
78. Ignorance is the night of the mind: but a night without moon and without stars. (Confucius)
The Chinese thinker Confucius gave us quotes that are still very relevant.
79. The night is darkest just before dawn. (The dark knight)
One of the most remembered phrases from Nolan’s film, which can help us find hope where it seems we cannot find it.
80. The closer the dawn is, the blacker the night.
A meteorological curiosity that surely many of us were unaware of.
81. In the blissful night, in secret, that no one saw me, nor did I look at anything, without any other light or guide but the one that burned in my heart. (Saint John of the Cross)
The work of this Spanish poet and mystic has transcended to the present day and the themes he most commonly dealt with were the call of God and the religious vocation.
82. Thousands of distant suns do not dispel the night. (Hashimoto Takako)
This Japanese author is known mainly for cultivating the Haiku genre,
83. If you believe in magic, on San Juan Night, you will find it.
It is said that the night of San Juan is one of the most special and magical of the year.
84. Spring night, the little girl runs with the stars. (Hashimoto Takako)
A truly poetic image from this great Japanese author.
85. A spring night. In the shadow of the temple a mysterious man begging. (Matsuo Basho)
One of the best-known poets of Japan at the end of the 17th century.
86. On cold nights my bones feel the blankets and hit the quilt. (Yosa Buson)
On cold nights we only find comfort in the blankets that shelter us.
87. Icy whiteness; and me, without light, at night, on a sleigh. (Hashimoto Takako)
Some of the night landscapes that this great author describes are truly beautiful.
88. At night, you would straighten your hair, I would fall asleep, meditating on them. (Blas de Otero)
The night has been one of the settings most used by poets and writers from all over the world to set their love stories.
89. Let me be your night, to cloud your transparency. Let me see your beauty! (Manuel Altolaguirre)
There are many romantic verses that we can extract from the work of this Spanish poet.
90. Life is a bad night in a bad inn. (Teresa de Jesús)
The poetry of Saint Teresa can be considered somewhat disturbing in our days.
