50 Best Night Quotes to Find Peace Before Bed

As the night falls, let these night quotes guide you to a place of peace and relaxation. Nights are the perfect time to reflect on the day and prepare for rest. These quotes will help calm your mind and allow you to unwind, ready for a good night’s sleep.

Exploring the Mystery of Night Quotes

Night is the other half of life, and the better half – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day – Vincent van Gogh

The darker the night, the brighter the stars

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light – Dylan Thomas

Night’s deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind, the interval to recruit our spent spirits – John Milton

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope – Bernard Williams

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night – Edgar Allan Poe

By night, an atheist half believes in God – Edward Young

The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4 a.m. knows all my secrets – Poppy Z. Brite

The night is more alive and more richly colored than the day – Vincent van Gogh

Night is a world lit by itself – Antonio Porchia

At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space – Natalie Wood

The night sky is a dignity so resilient it can be seen from any distance – Ann Druyan

Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires – William Shakespeare

Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy – Isaac Bashevis Singer

I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars – Stephenie Meyer

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves – Euripides

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing – Robert Ingersoll

Night has always pushed up day, you must know life to see decay – Mumford & Sons

Night hath a thousand eyes – John Lyly

The Power of Night Quotes to Inspire

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light – Joyce Carol Oates

At night, one’s worries are magnified. Without the distractions of the day, thoughts churn and build like storm clouds in the sky – Haruki Murakami

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world – Oscar Wilde

If you are ever feeling lonely just look at the moon. Someone, somewhere is looking right at it too

The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets

Night falls, but day rises to replace it. Follow the day and you will never have to worry about the night again – Rumi

When the night is dark enough, the stars shine out – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Night is the blotting paper for many sorrows – Anonymous

Night is a time of terror. Wars are seldom won, but they are often lost at night – Colin Powell

The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night – Haruki Murakami

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night – Virginia Woolf

The sea is a desert of waves, a wilderness of water – Langston Hughes

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn’t creak – Tom Robbins

The night is the hardest time to be alive. For some of us, anyway. The rest sleep, unaware of the torment in the darkness – Poppy Z. Brite

At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me – Rumi

For my part, I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream – Vincent van Gogh

This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away – J.R.R. Tolkien

The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand – Frederic Lawrence Knowles

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night – Napoleon Bonaparte

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn – Mahatma Gandhi

Reflecting on Night Through Quotes

Night does not show things, it suggests them. It disturbs and surprises us with its strangeness – Jean Cocteau

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me – William Shakespeare

The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning – Harriet Beecher Stowe

The night is never a time for fear, but for faith – Norman Vincent Peale

Night is the mother of thoughts – John Florio

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground – Theodore Roosevelt

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer – Albert Camus

The night is a veil that covers the lonely heart – Anonymous

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle – Heinrich Heine

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval – Marshall McLuhan

Night’s silence is the silence of loneliness – Haruki Murakami

How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? – Dr. Seuss

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful – Mary Shelley

I love the silent hour of night, For blissful dreams may then arise, Revealing to my charmed sight – What may not bless my waking eyes – Anne Brontë

Night is a curious child, wandering between earth and sky, creeping in windows and doors, and bringing sleep to the tired, darkness to candles, and dreams to tired minds – Stephen King

Night is the mother of counsels – George Herbert

The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one – Francis William Bourdillon

Oh, the wonderful freshness that runs through the air and the softness of the vivid grass and the color of the sunburnt reed and the smile of the shifting foliage – Lord Byron

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise – Victor Hugo

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people – Judy Garland

How Night Quotes Can Change Your Perspective

There is something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you’re special – Carol Rifka Brunt

The night is young and full of possibilities

I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes – Anne Brontë

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely – Edna St. Vincent Millay

Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, Chief nourisher in life’s feast – William Shakespeare

The tender whispers of the night became my womb; and the night became my genesis – Jesmyn Ward

We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side – Khalil Gibran

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls – George Carlin

There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light – N.P. Willis

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar – Janet Fitch

The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural – Wassily Kandinsky

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering – Theodore Roosevelt

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders – Lao Tzu

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Night is when it all comes together for me; thoughts shape into words, words flow into patterns, and I can express the inexpressible – Sylvia Plath

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity – E.M. Forster

The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Lovers, to bed; ’tis almost fairy time – William Shakespeare

Night is not a time for play—it is a time for sleep – Edgar Allan Poe

Not just beautiful, though—the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me – Haruki Murakami

That’s the advantage of insomnia. People who go to be early always complain that the night is too short, but for those of us who stay up all night, it can feel as long as a lifetime. You get a lot done – Banana Yoshimoto

Discover the Beauty in Night Quotes

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free – Arthur Schopenhauer

Let the night take you. Let the stars evaporate into your dreams. Let sleep be the only comfort for you to believe – Anthony Liccione

When the night is completely dark, it finds me awake and walking and praying, more often than not, on my knees – James Baldwin

In the evening, before they sleep, everyone is forced to remove their masks. It is the only time when they truly resemble themselves – José Saramago

Night is a time to dream and a day is a time to make them true – Anonymous

The night sky is a miracle of infinitude – Terri Guillemets

What hath night to do with sleep? – John Milton