Nighttime tranquility Quotes

Then at night the general stillness is more impressive than any sound, but occasionally you hear the note of an owl farther or nearer in the woods, and if near a lake, the semihuman cry of the loons at their unearthly revels.

I love the night passionately... I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.

This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away.

At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.

Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises!

Other sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those dark nights that hold their breath by the hour together, and then heave a long low sigh, and hold their breath again.

At last, in the dead of the night, when the street was very still indeed, Little Dorrit laid the heavy head upon her bosom, and soothed her to sleep. And thus she sat at the gate, as it were alone; looking up at the stars, and seeing the clouds pass over them in their wild flight-which was the dance at Little Dorrit's party.

How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven.

So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.

it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine

Night had come—night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than by day.

I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes.

It feels good to be awake, knowing others are asleep. Makes you feel like the night is not for everyone, just a chosen few.