Top 40 Quotes About Night (2024 Update)

1. “The darkest nights produce the brightest stars.”

— John Green

2. “Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Also featured in: Anxiety Quotes

3. “Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.”

— Ernest Hemingway

4. “For the night is dark and full of terrors.”

— George R.R. Martin

5. “If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.”

— Charles Bukowski

Also featured in: Fighting Quotes, Quotes About Laughter

6. “I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”

— Galileo Galilei

7. “Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.”

— Earl Nightingale

8. “Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.”

— Michael Jordan

9. “Because I cannot sleep I make music in the night.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Sleep Quotes

10. “I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.”

— James Mattis

11. “A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself. A mentor is someone who allows you to know that no matter how dark the night, in the morning joy will come. A mentor is someone who allows you to see the higher part of yourself when sometimes it becomes hidden to your own view.”

— Oprah Winfrey

12. “There’s no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child’s play.”

— Rumi

13. “When you miss me just look up to the night sky and remember, I'm like a star; sometimes you can't see me, but I'm always there.”

— Jayde Nicole

Also featured in: Quotes About Stars, Sky Quotes

14. “Day by day and night by night we were together – all else has long been forgotten by me.”

— Walt Whitman

15. “Later that night, I held an atlas on my lap, ran my fingers across the whole world, and whispered, ‘where does it hurt?’ It answered, everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.”

— Warsan Shire

Also featured in: Hurt Quotes

16. “We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.”

— Earl Nightingale

Also featured in: Achievement Quotes

17. “Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.”

— Ernest Hemingway

18. “I hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast I am alone in the night Been trying hard not to get into trouble, but I I’ve got a war in my mind So, I just ride.”

— Lana Del Rey

Also featured in: Quotes About War, Summer Quotes

19. “And when the night is cloudy There is still a light that shines on me Shine on until tomorrow, let it Be...”

— Paul McCartney

20. “If I have questions about the universe on my mind when I go to bed, I can’t turn off. I dream equations all night.”

— Stephen Hawking

21. “My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends – it gives a lovely light!”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

22. “I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid and the hard words I ever feared to say can now be said: I love you.”

— Charles Bukowski

Also featured in: Sleep Quotes

23. “The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity. So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours.”

— Ram Dass

24. “Talk about a dream, try to make it real. You wake up in the night with a fear so real. Spend your life waiting for a moment that just don’t come. Well, don’t waste your time waiting.”

— Bruce Springsteen

Also featured in: Real Quotes

25. “Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the earth There is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end And the sun will rise.”

— Victor Hugo

Also featured in: Quotes About Light

26. “Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair. The night’s busted open. These two lanes will take us anywhere.”

— Bruce Springsteen

27. “Rich People plan for three generations. Poor people plan for Saturday night.”

— Gloria Steinem

28. “I live for the nights that I can’t remember, with the people that I won’t forget.”

— Drake

Also featured in: Humble Quotes

29. “I miss you more than the sun misses the sky at night.”

— Taylor Swift

Also featured in: Sky Quotes

30. “She gives the night its dreams.”

— Chris Cornell

31. “Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.”

— William Blake

32. “Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night.”

— William Blake

33. “One word after another. That’s the only way that novels get written and, short of elves coming in the night and turning your jumbled notes into Chapter Nine, it’s the only way to do it. So keep on keeping on. Write another word and then another.”

— Neil Gaiman

34. “Long days and pleasant nights.”

— Stephen King

35. “The energy in the daytime is so different because everyone is so unhappy and depressed and you can pick up on that energy psychokinetically. So I like to come out at night. Everything’s settled, you can see more.”

— Kevin Gates

Also featured in: Energy Quotes

36. “You can sit right on my middle finger for the night.”

— Lil Wayne

37. “Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”

— Jean Paul

Also featured in: Music Quotes

38. “At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined, and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth, since we are made of earth and rain.”

— Pablo Neruda

Also featured in: Rain Quotes

39. “Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”

— William Blake

Also featured in: Sleep Quotes, Good Morning Quotes

40. “You may learn sooner than most generations the hard lesson that you must always make the path for yourself. There is no secret society out there that will tap you on your shoulder one night and show you the way.”

— Stephen Colbert