Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

—Jean Paul

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

—Jean Paul

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.

—Jean Paul

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

—Jean Paul

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

—Jean Paul

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

—Mignon McLaughlin

The day, water, sun, moon, night—I do not have to purchase these things with money.

—Plautus

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

—Vincent Van Gogh

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

—Philip K. Dick