Have you ever seen Dallas from a DC-9 at night?—The Flatlanders

Our entire history is merely the history of the waking life of man; nobody has yet considered the history of his sleeping life.—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

By staying up all night, I become a thief of time, sequestering a space from the rest of the day.—Laura Cereta

The day I had made that statement, about inventing the internet, I had been up all night inventing the camcorder.—Al Gore

The day unravels what the night has woven.—Walter Benjamin

The moon looks down on many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.—Jean Ingelow

Who dares not stir by day must walk by night.—William Shakespeare

I love to feel the tide of darkness rising, slowly and slowly washing, turning over and over, lifting, floating, all that lies strewn upon the dark beach, all that lies hid in dark hollows.—Katherine Mansfield

Last night I dreamed I ate a 10-pound marshmallow. When I woke up my pillow was gone.—Tommy Cooper

The day has eyes, the night has ears.—Scottish proverb

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning day after day.—F. Scott Fitzgerald

What hath night to do with sleep?—John Milton

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.—Dave Barry

Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren’t turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.—William Least Heat-Moon

We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.—Robin Williams

What a man does abroad by night requires and implies more deliberate energy than what he is encouraged to do in the sunshine.—Henry David Thoreau

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.—Margaret Mead

Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover.—Margeret Atwood

There are 12 hours in the day, and about 50 in the night.—Madame de Sévigné

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?—Jack Kerouac

The universe sleeps, a paw on its huge ear, lousy with stars.—Vladimir Mayakovsky

It is said that night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good.—Victor Hugo

I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.—Sarah Williams

He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.—Hernan Cortez

I’m for whatever gets you through the night.—Frank Sinatra

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