Nighttime Quotes

Shadow owes its birth to light.

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

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel.

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

Night is the mother of counsels.

Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.

And the night shall be filled with music, and the cares, that infest the day, shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, and as silently steal away.

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.

Press close bare-bosomed night -- press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! mad naked summer night.

I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.

The Night in Isla Negra

Shadows fall on even the brightest hours.

O comfort-killing night, image of hell, dim register and notary of shame, black stage for tragedies and murders fell, vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!

Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof;

but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.

Beware thoughts that come in the night.

They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.

You know I've got a chum, a smashing mate, he's got a dog with no legs, and he calls it a cigarette. It's true, yeah, because at nighttime he has to take it out for a drag.

The fact is that daytime television is less valued than nighttime, and it's partly because of the product that we produce. We do a one-hour show in 12 hours. Nighttime produces a one-hour show in seven to nine days.

On daytime they continue to revisit a lot of the same stuff while nighttime does move on and show development.

I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time.

I don't care how much they say it doesn't bother them. That's why we used to huddle in caves and light fires when the sun went down.

I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.

I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today.

I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing.

In daytime, they're doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight.

Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience - to see something that's not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it's like their lives.