It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.

 —Victor Hugo

Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.

—J.K. Rowling

Research is the name given the crystal formed when the night’s worry is added to the day’s sweat.

 —Martin H. Fischer

By night, an atheist half believes in God.

 —Edward Young

Nighttime is really the best time to work.—All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.

—Catherine O’Hara

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

—Vincent Van Gogh

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

—George Carlin

Night, the beloved.—Night, when words fade and things come alive.—When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

—Jorge Luis Borges

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.

 —Henry Beston

For the happiest life, rigorously plan your days, leave your nights open to chance.

—Mignon McLaughlin