Night Symbolism Quotes

O God, my God, the night has values that the day never dreamed of.

...morning is the soul's night.

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

Blood Leads to Humanity, Spirit Leads to Night, and Earth Completes.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.

Because the soul is like a flower that folds its petals when dark comes, and breathes not its fragrance into the phantoms of the night.

Of what significance the light of day, if it is not the reflection of an inward dawn?--to what purpose is the veil of night withdrawn, if the morning reveals nothing to the soul? It is merely garish and glaring.

Things that live by night live outside the realm of 'normal' time and so suggest living outside the realm of good and evil, since we have moralistic feelings about time. Chauvinistic about our human need to wake by day and sleep by night, we come to associate night dwellers with people up to no good at a time when they have the jump on the rest of us and are defying nature, defying their circadian rhythms.