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#1

“Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning. The tragedy of man is that he doesn't know how to distinguish between day and night. He says things at night that should only be said by day.”
― Elie Wiesel, Dawn

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#2

“I watched the night sky with it's countless stars and its moon, and I wondered about the universe and all that had been created, why the stars and the moon rose at night and the sun in the day, how vast it must be, how I could never understand the infinite measure of its size.”
― Patrick Carman, Beyond the Valley of Thorns

tags: night, stars, universe

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#3

“Women can go mad with insomnia.
The sleep-deprived roam houses that have lost their familiarity. With tea mugs in hand, we wander rooms, looking on shelves for something we will recognize: a book title, a photograph, the teak-carved bird -- a souvenir from what place? A memory almost rises when our eyes rest on a painting's grey sweep of cloud, or the curve of a wooden leg in a corner. Fingertips faintly recall the raised pattern on a chair cushion, but we wonder how these things have come to be here, in this stranger's home.
Lost women drift in places where time has collapsed. We look into our thoughts and hearts for what has been forgotten, for what has gone missing. What did we once care about? Whom did we love? We are emptied. We are remote. Like night lilies, we open in the dark, breathe in the shadowy world. Our soliloquies are heard by no one.”
― Cathy Ostlere, Lost: A Memoir

tags: insomnia, loss, night, women

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#4

“Night thoughts have a different color than day thoughts, a different slant, more than anything else they know all the secret paths and chinks in the armor they can take advantage of to force their way into consciousness.”
― Christa Wolf, City of Angels or Overcoat of Dr. Freud

tags: memories, night

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#5

“In a beautiful night, under the stars, man always feels himself above the sky, beside the God!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

tags: night

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#6

“The blue light of the rising moon fell on the rocks and the scant forest of the taiga, revealing each projecting rock, each tree in a peculiar fashion, different from the way they looked by day. Everything seemed real but different than in the daytime. It was as if the world had a second face, a nocturnal face.”
― Octavio Paz, The Blue Bouquet

tags: night, nocturnal

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#7

“I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: desire, dreams, night

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#8

“The moon was reigning over their world, glowing its full splendor to all those willing to look up.”
― Irina Serban, Full Circle

tags: full-moon, magic, night

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#9

“I love it when there’s nothing
Left to see but tiny spots of what’s still light
Stories piercing the night.”
― Anna Jae

tags: dreaming, night, night-train, stories

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#10

“come, ancient and unchanging night
Night, born as dethroned king,
Night, internally equal to silence, Night.
With sequins of volatile starlight
Woven on your robe with infinity
Come quietly
Come fleet-footed
Come alone.”
― Pierre Péju, The Girl from the Chartreuse

tags: dream, night, silence

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#11

“Good night! Good night!
Far flies the light;
But still God's love
Shall shine above,
Making all bright,
Good night! Good night!”
― Victor Hugo

tags: bedtime, god, light, love, night

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#12

“In the morning, celebrate the beauty and warmth of sun light,
in the evening, celebrate the song of silence and love of night.”
― Debasish Mridha

tags: beauty, celebrate, education, evening, happiness, hope, inspirational, intelligence, knowledge, life, light, love, morning, night, philosophy, silence, song, sun, truth, warmth, wisdom

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#13

“Good night - may you fall asleep in the arms of a dream, so beautiful, you'll cry when you awake.”
― Michael Faudet

tags: night, sleep

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#14

“I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

tags: day, loneliness, night, solitude

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#15

“At night I dream of things I scoff at by day.”
― Jaclyn Dolamore, Magic Under Glass

tags: day, dream, dreams, night

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#16

“...yes, in the obscured sky a moon does float, newly, a wishing moon, a sliver of ancient rock, a goddess, a wink.”
― Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale

tags: moon, night, sky

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#17

“savor
with me
the lushness
of a lingering sleep...
and last night’s
dream.”
― Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence

tags: dreaming, dreams, indian-authors, lingering, lovers, lush, night, nighttime, poems, poetry, poetry-quotes, savor, savor-the-moment, sleep

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#18

“Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

tags: after, before, books, dejan-stojanovic, first, literature, literature-quotes, night, philosophy, poetry, poetry-quotes, poets, quotes, the-sun-watches-the-sun, waiting, wisdom

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#19

“Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: night, nighttime

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#20

“Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of day: glimmered faintly in the sky. The objects which had looked dim and terrible in the darkness, grew more and more defined, and gradually resolved into their familiar shapes. The rain came down, thick and fast; and pattered, noisily, among the leafless bushes.”
― Charles Dickens

tags: cold, gloom, morning, night

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#21

“O night, O sweetest time, though black of hue,
with peace you force all the restless work to end;
those who exalt you see and understand,
and he is sound of mind who honours you.
You cut the thread of tired thoughts, for so
you offer calm in your moist shade; you send
to this low sphere the dreams where we ascend
up to the highest, where I long to go.
Shadow of death that brings to quiet close
all miseries that plague the heart and soul,
for those in pain the last and best of cures;
you heal the flesh of its infirmities,
dry and our tears and shut away our toil,
and free the good from wrath and fretting cares.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti, Complete Poems and Selected Letters

tags: night

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#22

“When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.”
― Jane Austen

tags: contemplation, nature, night, sorrow, sublime, wickedness

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#23

“The dawn of beauty always comes after night.”
― Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

tags: dawn, night, world

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#24

“When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.”
― Khushwant Singh, Delhi

tags: insomnia, night, pensive, reflection

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#25

“Every star was darker than the night before it awoke.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sign and Its Children

tags: dejan-stojanovic, literature, literature-quotes, night, poetry, poetry-quotes, quotes-to-live-by, stars

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#26

“I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on,
The windows and the stars illumined, one by one,
The rivers of dark smoke pour upward lazily,
And the moon rise and turn them silver. I shall see
The springs, the summers, and the autumns slowly pass;
And when old Winter puts his blank face to the glass,
I shall close all my shutters, pull the curtains tight,
And build me stately palaces by candlelight.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

tags: dusk, evening, night, winter

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#27

“The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: adversity, advice, books, bright, brightness, city-of-angels-movie, connected, dark, dark-angels, darkness, friendship, guardian-angels, inspiration, inspirational-authors, learned-lessons, life-lessons, light, moon, night, novels, plans, seekers, seeking, shine, sky, spiritual-guides, trials, white-paths, wisdom

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#28

“Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.”
― David Almond, My Name Is Mina

tags: hope, imagination, night, sleep

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#29

“When the Deep Purple falls,
Over sleepy garden walls,
And the stars begin to flicker in the sky,
Thru the mist of a memory
You wander back to me,
Breathing my name with a sigh.

In the still of the night,
Once again I hold you tight,
Tho' you're gone, your love lives on
When moonlight beams.

And as long as my heart will beat
Lover, we'll always meet
Here in my Deep Purple dreams.”
― Rebecca Wells

tags: dreams, love, night

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#30

“There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us. ”
― Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

tags: grace, inspirational, life, night, terror

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