Quotations about

Night

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

—Herb Caen

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

—Edgar Allan Poe

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

—Bill Watterson

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

—Joyce Carol Oates

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

There's no night without stars.

—Andre Norton

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

—Philip K. Dick

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

—Vincent Van Gogh

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

—Plautus

Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep. It's always in the middle of the bloody night, or when you're half awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is.

—John Lennon

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

—Mignon McLaughlin

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

—Jean Paul

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

—Steven Wright