After each night we are emptier: our mysteries and our griefs have leaked away into our dreams.

It is not right for a ruler who has the nation in his charge, a man with so much on his mind, to sleep all night.

Those who are awake have a world that is one and common, but each of those who are asleep turns aside into his own particular world.

Never greet a stranger in the night, for he may be a demon.

The day unravels what the night has woven.

I curse the night, yet doth from day me hide.

To know the abyss of the darkness and not to fear it, to entrust oneself to it and whatever may arise from it—what greater gift?

Night affords the most convenient shade for works of darkness.

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

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

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

By night an atheist half believes a God.

What a man does abroad by night requires and implies more deliberate energy than what he is encouraged to do in the sunshine.