90 great famous phrases about the Night (and proverbs)
The night has a special mystery. It is in this phase of the journey 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?
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Phrases about the night
In today's article we are going to discover the best phrases about the night that thinkers, poets and philosophers of all historical periods have written.
If you think that we have forgotten a 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 that hidden at night you enter my secret thoughts? (William Shakespeare)
Famous love quote.
6. And I like to listen to the stars at night, 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 to dream.
8. It is at night that the roar of the heart is best perceived, the rattle of anxiety, the murmur of the impossible and the silence of the world. (Fabrizio Caramagna)
An opportunity to show feelings.
9. Who knows why the night, like rubber, is infinitely elastic and soft, while the morning is so cruelly sharp. (Banana Yoshimoto)
A successful comparison between these phases of the day.
10. At night everything assumes lighter, more nuanced forms, almost magical. Everything is sweetened and attenuated, even the wrinkles of the face and those of the soul. (Romano Battaglia)
The mystical appearance in the dark.
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. 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 stalemate in the night, the blackest and coldest hour, when the world has forgotten sunset and dawn is still no promise. A time when it is too early to get up, but so late that going to bed is meaningless. (Robin Hob)
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. (Fedor Dostoevsky)
A metaphor to apply to life.
15. Nights in which 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 in 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 moment to unleash creativity.
18. Man's greatest sin is sleeping 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 it graces us because it suppresses idle details, like memories. (Jorge Luis Borges)
He 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 being fragmented and grows with the calm of the tree. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
Another reflection of the great 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. 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 on a clear night. (Mario Rigoni Stern)
In these cases, the birth rate usually rises after nine months.
28. Night is the quietest time to work. Helps thinking. (Alexander Graham Bell)
On the creativity that generates darkness.
29. It is the night that is good for believing in the light. (Edmond Rostand)
One of those phrases about the night that we must remember.
30. At the heart of all winters lives a throbbing spring, and behind each night comes a smiling dawn. (Khalil Gibran)
There is always a fair and beautiful ending.
31. Don't try to fix 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 lack. (iBlulady)
He can give us things we don't have.
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 I lie awake in bed at night and ask myself, "Where have I failed?" Then a voice tells me: "This will take you more than one night." (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 wonders. (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 that the streets were absorbed by the sky, and that the night filled all the air. (Charles Dickens)
A great phrase from 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 hides the defects and is indulgent with all the imperfections; at that hour, every woman looks beautiful. (Ovid)
The benefits of shadows.
40. At night, an atheist half believes in God. (Edward Young)
His mysticism changes us.
41. Come, you with the black forehead, sweet, loving night, give me my Romeo; and when he dies, make it yours and share it in little stars: the face of heaven will be so embellished by him that the whole world will fall in love with the night and will no longer worship the shining sun. (William Shakespeare)
Phrase about the night of the British writer.
42. Walking at night in the open air, 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 they had not yet been realized. built houses or cities 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 peers, as friends or enemies. (Herman 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 be the same anymore.
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 longings.
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 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 birth 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 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 taking all worries away. 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. (TO. TO. Milne)
A way to bring hearts closer.
52. You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is ultimately 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 into the tomorrow I will wake up like a new flower that has just opened, I will have once again imbibed God, and I will be recreated. (d. h. Lawrence)
About 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 phrase of love 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 would men believe in them and adore them, and preserve for many generations the memory of the city of God that was shown them! Yet these emissaries of beauty arrive night after night, lighting up the universe with their admonishing smile. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
About the stars.
57. Good night, may you fall asleep in the arms of such a beautiful dream that you will cry when you wake up. (Michael Faudet)
A beautiful wish.
58. I love the silent hour of the night, because blissful dreams can arise, revealing to my enchanted sight. What my awake eyes may not bless. (Anne Bronte)
Unique things are likely to happen at this time.
59. My beautiful sleep, have sweet dreams. You are the only one that 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 a sweet sorrow that I'll say goodnight until it's tomorrow. (William Shakespeare)
A way of not resigning yourself to saying goodbye.
61. The moon will guide you through the night with her brilliance, 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 the day will be loved, but the night will also be beautiful and blessed, and all your fear will pass. (J.R.R. 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 womb. The night is the time of the womb. Our souls come out to play. The darkness acquits everything; the struggle for identity and impression ceases. We rest overnight. (John O'Donohue)
A phrase for mother nature.
65. Those who dream by day have knowledge of many things that escape those who only dream by night. (Edgar Allan Poe)
About creative minds, who are capable of dreaming while awake.
66. Today I want to say goodnight to those who make me happy with a simple smile, to those who understand me by looking into my eyes and to those who make me go up to heaven with a simple word. (Haruki Murakami)
From the Japanese writer.
67. The longest road has its end; the darkest night ends with the arrival of morning. (Harriet Beecher-Stowe)
The waters always return to their course.
68. Stars can not shine without darkness. (Esther Dean)
A beautiful reality.
69. The night suggests, he does not teach. The night finds us and surprises us by its strangeness; it releases in us the forces that, during the day, are dominated by reason. (Brassai)
About the features of the night.
70. Night much more night: love is already a fact. (Jorge Guillen)
A love poem.
71. At night, all cats are gray. (Saying)
A saying that refers to the low visibility at night and the impossibility of guessing the intentions of the passers-by we meet.
72. It is during the night when it is beautiful to believe in the light. (Edmond Rostand)
A very poetic image that encourages us not to lose hope no matter how hard a situation may be.
73. The night is to see dreams and the day to make them come true.
A phrase full of optimism and 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. I wait for you at night. Swim me. Deep and cold sources enliven my stream. (Carmen Count)
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 needy 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, endless night (Love of lesbian)
One of the most beautiful love verses by this Barcelona indie group.
78. Ignorance is the night of the mind: but a moonless and starless night. (Confucius)
The Chinese thinker Confucius gave us quotes that are still very current.
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 we can't seem to 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 happy night, in secret, that nobody 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 this day and the themes that he most frequently dealt with were the call of God and the religious vocation.
82. Thousands of distant suns do not dissipate the night. (Takako Hashimoto)
This Japanese author is mainly known for cultivating the Haiku genre,
83. If you believe in magic, on the Night of San Juan, 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. (Takako Hashimoto)
A truly poetic image of this great Japanese author.
85. One spring night. In the shadow of the temple a mysterious man pleading. (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 cover us.
87. icy white; and I, without light, at night, in a sleigh. (Takako Hashimoto)
Some of the night landscapes that this great author describes are truly beautiful.
88. At night, you smoothed your hair, I fell asleep, meditating on them. (Blas de Otero)
The night has been one of the scenarios most used by poets and writers from all over the world to situate their love stories.
89. Let me be your night, 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. (Theresa of Jesus)
The poetry of Santa Teresa can be considered somewhat disturbing in our days.