56 Quotes About Nighttime

The water glittered under the moon’s careful watch, and, in the distance, steeples cut stark black silhouettes into the landscape of the distant city.

The sky a net, its mesh clogged with glowing stars.

But tonight is a gusty, hurrying night . . . even the clouds racing over the sky are in a hurry and the moonlight that gushes out between them is in a hurry to flood the world.

But in the dark everything was unnatural; the silence and the darkness were in themselves something like death.

My life is littered with copies of Moby Dick.

Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear.

Nights can never be real and enjoyable without the croaking of frogs and the chirping of crickets.

The sound of a pen scratching in the night is a holy sound.

The night was dark and pregnant with mystical presences. It was fragrant, startled one with sudden cries and incited him with fear and awe. Still, in its blackness each man felt like a prince.