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Quotes about the night, dreams and quiet hours. This hand-picked collection brings together 30 of the finest night quotes ever written — from John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

As the night gets dark, let your worries fade. Sleep peacefully knowing you've done all you can do. Good night.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

The stars are the land-marks of the universe.

Before you fall asleep every day, say something positive to yourself.

Now came still evening on, and twilight grey had in her sober livery all things clad.

— John Milton

I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night, and I love the rain.

Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly.

The night is darkest just before the dawn. And the dawn is coming.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art.

— John Keats

And I saw stars again — the stars of hope that come out at the end of the darkness.

— Dante Alighieri

The day is over, the night has come. Today is gone, what's done is done. Embrace your dreams, through the night.

The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

Though the night was made for loving, and the day returns too soon.

— Lord Byron

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Night is the wonderful opportunity to take rest, to forgive, to smile, to get in shape for the battle that you have to wage tomorrow.

Parting day lingers, though the night is past.

— Lord Byron

Night is the other half of life, and the better half.

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

She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies.

— Lord Byron

Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day.

Sleep is the best meditation.

— Dalai Lama

May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way to your door.

— Irish Blessing

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The sun watches what I do, but the moon knows all my secrets.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

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