I proclaim night more truthful than the day.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

In my dreams I sleep with everybody.

By night an atheist half believes a God.

The twilight is the crack between the worlds.

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

Each night’s new terror drives away the terror of the night before.

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.