Long Nights Quotes

• Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself

  Elie Wiesel

  Night, Long, Holocaust

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• its been a long night" "aren't they all?

  Sarah Dessen

  Night, Long

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• The moon glows on the river, wind rustles the pines.
  Long night clear evening--what are they for?

  Ueda Akinari

  Moon, Night, Wind

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• Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.

  Henri Poincare

  Science, Night, Thinking

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• I’d ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you, and I did.

  Daniel Handler

  Night, Long, Ruins

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.54, Egmont UK

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• The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.

  Terence McKenna

  Night, Drawing, Long

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• Death is for a long time. Those of shallow thought say that it is forever. There is, at least, a long night of it. There is the forgetfulness and the loss of identity. The spirit, even as the body, is unstrung and burst and scattered. One goes down to death, and it leaves a mark on one forever.

  R. A. Lafferty

  Loss, Night, Long

  "Space Chantey" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 2), 1968.

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• Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Night, Long, Cheese

  'Treasure Island' (1883) ch. 15

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• Good days and long nights to ya, sai.

  Stephen King

  Good Day, Night, Long

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• You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly-and woke up again, and here I were.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Night, Long, Pieces

  1883 Ben Gunn to Jim Hawkins.Treasure Island, ch.15,'The Man of the Island'.

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• Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an instrument of annihilating egoism.

  Paul Brunton

  Night, Punishment, Long

  Paul Brunton (1988). “Advanced contemplation: The peace within you”, Larson Pubn

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• But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Night, Two, Long

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1955). “Poems from Iqbal”, London : Murray. [1955]

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• Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting strangely at one sudden goal, Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers, Into one beautiful and perfect whole; And life's long night is ended, and the way Lies open onward to eternal day.

  Edwin Arnold

  Love, Beautiful, Lonely

  Edwin Arnold, “Destiny”

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• Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.

  Elie Wiesel

  Dream, Night, Dust

  Night ch. 3 (1960)

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• If we deny our awesome challenge; turn our backs on the living universe, and forsake our cosmic destiny, we will commit a crime of unutterable magnitude. Mankind alone has the power to carry out this fundamental change in the universe. Our failure would lead to consequences unthinkable. This is perhaps the first and only chance the universe will ever have to awaken from its long night and live. We are the caretakers of this delicate spark of Life. To let it flicker and die through ignorance, neglect, or lack of imagination is a horror too great to contemplate.

  Marshall Savage

  Ignorance, Moon, Night

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• One night in Tokyo we watched two Japanese businessmen saying good-night to each other after what had clearly been a long night of drinking, a major participant sport in Japan. These men were totally snockered, having reached the stage of inebriation wherein every air molecule that struck caused them to wobble slightly, but they still managed to behave more formally than Americans do at funerals.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Good Night, Sports

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• The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that the departing world leaves behind it not an heir, but a pregnant widow. Between the death of the one and the birth of the other, much water will flow by, a long night of chaos and desolation will pass.

  Alexander Herzen

  Night, Order, Long

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• Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.

  Kate Morton

  Book, Writing, Successful

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• Side by side ... the British and French peoples have advanced to rescue ... mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny which has ever darkened and stained the pages of history. Behind them ... gather a group of shattered States and bludgeoned races: the Czechs, the Poles, the Norwegians, the Danes, the Dutch, the Belgians -- upon all of whom the long night of barbarism will descend, unbroken even by a star of hope, unless we conquer, as conquer we must; as conquer we shall.

  Winston Churchill

  Stars, Night, Race

  Arm Yourselves and Be Ye Men of Valour, BBC Radio Broadcast 19 May 1940

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• Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.

  Edmund Spenser

  Good Day, Night, Long

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser (1874). “The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene: With Other Poems of Chaucer and Spenser”, p.598

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• Naked girls with the heads of Marx and Malraux prone and helpless in the glare of the headlights, tried to give them a little joie de vivre but maybe it didn't take, their constant bickering and smallness, it's like a stroke of lightning, the world reminds you of its power, tracheotomies right and left, I am spinning, my pretty child, don't scratch, pick up your feet, the long nights, spent most of my time listening, this is a test of the system, this is only a test.

  Donald Barthelme

  Girl, Children, Night

  Donald Barthelme (1981). “Sixty stories”, Putnam Adult

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• War must never be a condition but, rather, a temporary scourge which we suffer as a child does a fever, knowing that health follows the long night of pain and that peace is health.

  Dan Simmons

  Children, Pain, War

  Dan Simmons (2011). “The Fall of Hyperion”, p.116, Spectra

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• I feel that non-violence is really the only way that we can follow because violence is just so self-defeating. A riot ends up creating many more problems for the negro community than it solved. We can through violence burn down a building, but you can't establish justice. You can murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder through violence. You can murder a hater, but you can't murder hate. And what we're trying to get rid of is hate, injustice, and all of these other things that continue the long night of man's inhumanity to man.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Night, Men

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• War! war! war!
  Heaven aid the right!
  God move the hero's arm in the fearful fight!
  God send the women sleep in the long, long night,
  When the breasts on whose strength they leaned shall heave no more.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  War, Hero, Moving

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1873). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman”, p.111

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• Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder ... is clothes.

  Ilka Chase

  Sleep, Night, Clothes

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