I've always felt that night doesn't fall. Night rises. There are these incidences in flying where you just sit there. It's one of the best seats in the house. — James Turrell
Night never had the last word. The dawn is always invincible. — Hugh B. Brown
All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me. — William Shakespeare
What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights! — Emile M. Cioran
Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark — Isaac Bashevis Singer
I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars. — Stephenie Meyer
I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
Late Night Awake Quotes
He would use amphetamines to stay awake because he would have late night maneuvers that would go way into the early morning hours and he was given pills to stay up for the long hours. — Priscilla Presley
Be there for your children. Sit on the bed and enjoy the late-night talks—try to stay awake! Pray for the Lord to inspire you. Forgive often. Choose your battles. Testify frequently of Jesus Christ and His goodness and of the Restoration. And most of all, let them know of your trust in the Lord. — Bonnie D. Parkin
Better to get up late and be wide awake then, than to get up early and be asleep all day. — Matthew Henry
The people that are there for you on your darkest nights are the ones worth spending your brightest days with.
I would roll out of bed and immediately start working, and keep working until it was so late at night that I couldn't stay awake anymore. Then I'd go to sleep and wake up the next morning and do the same thing all over again. I did that every day for three years. — Michael Azerrad
It's funny how when you're up so late at night for so long your mind can get into these creative places, the kind of creative places that come to you when you're halfway between asleep and awake. — Steve Wozniak
I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don't ever go out for lunch and I don't take vacations. I like to be awake when no one else is: either just before dawn in the morning or late, late at night. Silence helps. — Mona Simpson
Dream... but don't sleep.
I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence. — Diana Gabaldon
One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got. — Lincoln Steffens
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up. — Charles M. Schulz
I feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games. — Magnus Carlsen
If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito.
Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it. — Tom Shadyac
Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision. — Jeanette Winterson
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'.
Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night. — Charles M. Schulz
Be the type of person that when your feet touch the floor in the morning the devil says, "Aww shit.... they're up"
I used to lie awake at night, willing myself to put in the hard work, the determination, the passion. — Kevin Pietersen
The News-writer lies down at Night in great Tranquillity, upon a piece of News which corrupts before Morning, and which he is obliged to throw away as soon as he awakes. — Jean De La Bruyere
The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves. — Mignon McLaughlin
Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends. Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations. — Joyce Cary
Awake All Night Quotes
Most people who have a problem concentrate on the problem. They take it to bed with them and stay awake all night thinking it over. Let go of that problem. Rise above it in consciousness. — Emmet Fox
All that I have said and done,
Now that I am old and ill,
Turns into a question till
I lie awake night after night
And never get the answers right. — William Butler Yeats
A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But after worship, your prayers are for health, long life, wealth, and for the damsels and slaves of the Paradise. Ponder! Did you ever pray to God, 'O' God, I desire from Thee nothing but Thee'? — Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
I do not dream at night, I dream all day, I dream for a living.
(The raindrops) played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow. — Gary D. Schmidt
What keeps me awake at night is just, Am I making the best use of the time that remains for me, to both be as good an example as I can in my own daily life, and as compelling as possible a voice for the ways in which we can all work together to tackle these issues. — Queen Noor of Jordan
One thing that keeps me awake at night: I am a mother and, I have to confess with great delight, a grandmother of five girls, which gives me great hope for the future - girl power! Can I say that without alienating all of the men? — Queen Noor of Jordan
I often think that the night is more alive and richly colored than the day.
All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things. — Julian Barnes
Sometimes I lie awake at night thinking about all the dumb things I do every day... If I live to be eighty and I do ten dumb things each day... That would be about two hundred and ninety thousand dumb things... When you add up all the dumb things you do, it's best to use round figures. — Charles M. Schulz
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men; they act out their dreams to make them reality. — Thomas E. Lawrence
The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise. — Bhagavad Gita
Night Quotes
And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us. — Pablo Neruda
The energy in the daytime is so different because everyone is so unhappy and depressed and you can pick up on that energy psychokinetically. So I like to come out at night. Everything's settled, you can see more. — Kevin Gates
I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it. — Tupac Shakur
Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full. — Shams Tabrizi
Every night when I go out on stage, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I'm always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I'm not going to offend! — Don Rickles
Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through the night.
Last night
I begged the Wise One to tell me
the secret of the world.
Gently, gently, he whispered,
"Be quiet,
the secret cannot be spoken,
It is wrapped in silence." — Rumi
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. — Henry Rollins
A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. — Bob Dylan
I do whatever I do. I go to the club. I work on material. While other people are sleeping, I'm awake. I always liked that. I like being able to drive when there's no traffic. It's almost like you own the street at night. — Andrew Dice Clay
A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night. — Marilyn vos Savant
I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take. — Garth Brooks
The darkest nights produce the brightest stars
In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet that's what gets me pretty upset. — Rachel Weisz
I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night. — Barbara Kingsolver
Many of us are slaves to our minds. Our own mind is our worst enemy. We try to focus, and our mind wanders off. We try to keep stress at bay, but anxiety keeps us awake at night. We try to be good to the people we love, but then we forget them and put ourselves first. — Sakyong Mipham
Legend says, when you can't sleep at night It's because you're awake in someone else's dream
You are going to have hostile crowds and the fans are going to find out where you are staying and keep you awake at night. They are going to use everything possible. — Cobi Jones
The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture. — Ariel Pink
I am not a believer, not an atheist, not an agnostic. I am still awake at night, asking how? I am more content with the question than I would be with an answer. — Roger Ebert
I am like a child who awakes At the light, so safe and secureFree from night's fears when dawn breaks, In Thee I am ever secure. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Up All Night Quotes
Love is staying up all night with a sick child -- or a healthy adult. — Sir David Paradine Frost
If you had a bad night and you can’t show up the next day ready to go, or you can’t show up at all, that doesn’t affect just you, it affects everyone around you. A professional doesn’t let other people down just because of personal issues. — Tim Grover
I would stay up all night just thinking of ideas. — MrBeast
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise
When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them. — Rumi
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. — Benjamin Britten
I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That's why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can't figure that out. — Kid Rock
I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, 'I'll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.' — Tina Fey
If you go far enough out you can see the Universe itself, all the billion light years summed up time only as a flash, just as lonely, as distant as a star on a June night if you go far enough out. And still, my friend, if you go far enough out you are only at the beginning - of yourself. — Rolf Jacobsen
Know what the best thing about insomnia is? That I get to stay up all night figuring it out. — Olivia Munn
I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it. — Carl Yastrzemski
Stay Awake Quotes
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. — Friedrich Nietzsche
You should not actually stay in bed for very long awake, because your brain is this remarkably associative device. — Matthew Walker
Everyone sleeps, except lovers, who stay awake, telling stories to God — Rumi
Like a bird with broken wing
that has traveled through wind for years . . .
I sleep and my heart stays awake . . . — Giorgos Seferis
We got to stay awake for all these lizards and snakes;
Some of them come as friends, some of them come as Jakes. — Q-Tip
Because too many times in life there's just one person that I met, just one thing that I heard, one movie that I saw, one song that was sung, that changed my life. So I'm always trying to stay awake to be in the moment, and capture the moments when they come, because they come and go all the time. — Mike Singletary
Better try to stay wide awake, or you might end up found dead by the lake. — Eminem
O Cyrus , great King, King of Kings, Achaemenian King, King of the land of Iran. I, the Shahanshah of Iran, offer thee salutations from myself and from my nation. Rest in peace, for we are awake, and we will always stay awake. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Not causing harm requires staying awake. Part of being awake is slowing down enough to notice what we say and do. The more we witness our emotional chain reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain. It becomes a way of life to stay awake, slow down, and notice. — Pema Chodron
Sleeping At Night Quotes
Failure is an option. It's what you do with the failure that makes you who you are. Our failures mold us. I have failed at several things in my life. What sets some of us apart, is that when we fail, we can't sleep at night. It haunts us until we have our time at redemption. — David Goggins
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. — George Orwell
I can't wait to wake up and try something new. I can't sleep at night because I want to try something new. — Rodney Mullen
I find it so much easier to be creatively free at night. Daytime is for sleeping. Nighttime is the best time for making art. The later at night it gets the further into another world you go. — Mark Ryden
Napping during the day can relieve sleep pressure but make it harder to fall back asleep at night. — Peter Attia
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. — Mahatma Gandhi
Even if I ain’t the famous-est, the richest, the best – as long as I know I kept it real and didn’t backstab nobody – I sleep good at night. — 21 Savage
Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true. — Jack Kerouac
When sinners are careless and stupid, and sinking into hell unconcerned, it is time the church should bestir themselves. It is as much the duty of the church to awake, as it is for the firemen to awake when a fire breaks out in the night in a great city. — Charles Grandison Finney
It feels good to be awake, knowing others are asleep. Makes you feel like the night is not for everyone, just a chosen few. — Joseph Morgan
I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
After thirty years of intensive research, we can now answer many of the questions posed earlier. The recycle rate of a human being is around sixteen hours. After sixteen hours of being awake, the brain begins to fail. Humans need more than seven hours of sleep each night to maintain cognitive performance. After ten days of just seven hours of sleep, the brain is as dysfunctional as it would be after going without sleep for twenty-four hours. Three full nights of recovery sleep — Matthew Walker
Electronics were rascals, and they lay awake nights trying to find some way to screw you during the day. You could not reason with them. They had a brain and intestines, but no heart. — Ernest K. Gann
Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves. — Charles Stanley
The first time my town saw the sky it sucker-punched us in the throat, left us breathless, said, I'm gonna keep you awake some nights without touching you. You'll make it up, the pain, you always do. — Buddy Wakefield
A president just can't make much showing against congress. They lay awake nights, thinking up things to be against the president on. — Will Rogers
I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything. It doesn't keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after them is unsettling. — Stephen King
You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn. — T. H. White
The ladies men admire, I've heard, Would shudder at a wicked word. Their candle gives a single light, They'd rather stay at home at night. They do not keep awake 'till three, Nor read erotic poetry. They never sanction the impure, Nor recognize an overture. They shrink from powders and from paints... So far I've had no complaints. — Dorothy Parker
So a lot of people who work rotating shifts and they work at night, their bodies are set to want to be awake during the day and sleep at night. So there are some people who have a lot of trouble adjusting their rhythms and they have trouble working the night shift, they're sleepy, they're drowsy driving home. — Shelby Harris
Her name rang in Will's mind like the chime of a bell; he wondered if any other name on earth had such an inescapable resonance to it. She couldn't have been named something awful, could she, like Mildred. He couldn't imagine lying awake at night, staring up at the ceiling while invisible voices whispered 'Mildred' in his ears. But Tessa-- — Cassandra Clare
However young, the seeker who sets out upon the way
Shines bright over the world.
But day and night the person who is awake
Shines in the radiance of the spirit.
Meditate.
Live purely.
Be quiet.
Do your work, with mastery.
Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds!
Shine! — Buddha
Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream — William Shakespeare
You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days. — Unknown
Reality is a magic lady, sometimes very mysterious. To me she is very passionate. She is real not only when she is awake, walking down the streets, but also at night when she is dreaming or when she is having nightmares. When I am writing, I am always paying tribute to her - to that lady called Reality. — Eduardo Galeano
I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse. — William Wyler
I offer Emily half of my hit of acid- Love Saves the Day. It's my second or third time tripping, Emily's first, and she's understandably trepid. Awake all night, at one point I find her touching her reflection in a cruelly lit dorm bathroom, asking if she'll ever be the same. I kiss her then for the first time and whisper, No. — Nick Flynn
I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night. — Laura Marling
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