There are areas of the Earth that I would absolutely think no one lived in based on daytime observations. But then at night, lights pop up in those areas.
There is a difference in what people are willing to consider, daytime versus nighttime.
O God, my God, the night has values that the day never dreamed of.
You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.
On a scale of 1-10, I would consider myself an 8.5 rowdy. I prefer being rowdy in the day. I'm a 10 day rowdy, 7 night rowdy.
Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven That from the East glad message brings. Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapped to the eyes in his black wings.
The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.
My day-mind can endure / Upright, in hope, all it must undergo. / But O, afraid, unsure, / My night-mind waking lies too low, too low.
Many men walk by day; few walk by night. It is a different season.
The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.
Some men live their lives terrified. Terrified of the night and all that is dark. I will live my life eternally in fear of the light of day.
Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.