Night Quotes

In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.

Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.

But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.

Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.

The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, ‘Where the hell is my roof?

My ink-soaked heart could write your name across the sky a thousand times more than the stars that decorate the velvet night.

What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.

4 am before sleeping and 4 am after waking up hold the magic of two different worlds.

Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.

I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.