Dark Night

Famous quotes containing the words dark night, dark and/or night:

    There dwell the children of the dark Night, the dread gods Sleep and Death.
    Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)

    An American, a Negro ... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
    —W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)

    So tedious is this day
    As is the night before some festival
    To an impatient child that hath new robes
    And may not wear them.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)