The great difficulty lies in trying to transpose last night’s moment to a day which has no knowledge of it.

I proclaim night more truthful than the day.

At night comes counsel to the wise.

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

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

Night affords the most convenient shade for works of darkness.

Living is an ailment that is relieved every sixteen hours by sleep. A palliative. Death is the cure.

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.

The day unravels what the night has woven.

Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.

Darkness endows the small and ordinary ones among mankind with poetical power.

For most of us, nighttime dreaming brings us closer to our identities and our power than any activity in the waking world.