Night Quotes

How should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?

I threw it all away on a warming night of june, to live by the splendour of the sun, to hover by the virtues of the moon.

The fact that we define ourselves by our roles can be an admirable thing – it’s how we build a life and make a living. But it’s also precarious. Roles change. Sometimes overnight.

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.

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

I’m terrified of growing up. Once you become an adult, how to you step back from that? It’s something that wakes me up at night.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

When you are so full of sorrow that you can’t walk, can’t cry anymore, think about the green foliage that sparkles after the rain. When the daylight exhausts you, when you hope a final night will cover the world, think about the awakening of a young child.

The cold consumes me. The oceans in my eyes freeze. It’s 2 AM and I can’t move. Your loss is too much to bear.

Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.