I’ve dreamed enough to have a drink.
—François Rabelais, 1546Quotes
In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
—Anaïs Nin, 1933For most of us, nighttime dreaming brings us closer to our identities and our power than any activity in the waking world.
—Walter Mosley, 2000Each night’s new terror drives away the terror of the night before.
—Sophocles, c. 450 BCThere are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
—Madame de Sévigné, 1671Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
—Samuel Johnson, c. 1770Those 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.
—Heraclitus, c. 500 BCBy night an atheist half believes a God.
—Edward Young, c. 1745The twilight is the crack between the worlds.
—Carlos Castaneda, 1968The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
—Carl Sandburg, 1934At night comes counsel to the wise.
—Menander, c. 300 BCNight is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.
—Dorothy M. Richardson, 1923What a man does abroad by night requires and implies more deliberate energy than what he is encouraged to do in the sunshine.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852