Silent Night Quotes:

Night, when words fade and things come alive.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Night, Alive, Nighttime, Silent Night

Silent night, holy night. All is calm, all is bright. Round yon Virgin Mother and Child. Holy Infant so tender and mild. Sleep in heavenly peace. Sleep in heavenly peace.

- Joseph Mohr

topic: Christmas, Mother, Children, Christian Christmas, Christmas Song

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

- Vincent Van Gogh

topic: Inspirational, Good Night, Thinking, Night Time, Impressionists

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: In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths; Beneath her steady ray The desert circle spreads Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky. How beautiful is night!

- Robert Southey

topic: Beautiful, Ocean, Dark, Dark Blue, Serene

Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Stars, Angel, Heaven, Forget Me, Moon And Stars

I live alone, so I dont really talk to anyone once Im home. I have some silent nights.

- Patina Miller

topic: Home, Night, Silent, Silent Night

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

source: Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

topic: Night, Men, Self, Silent Night

By night an atheist half-believes in God.

- Edward Young

source: 'The Complaint: Night Thoughts' (1742-5) 'Night 5' l. 176

topic: God, Atheist, Believe, Silent Night, I Believe In God

In blissful dream, in silent night, There came to me, with magic might, With magic might, my own sweet love, Into my little room above.

- Heinrich Heine

source: Heinrich Heine (1859). “The Poems of Heine, complete: Translated in the original Metres: With a Sketch of Heine's Life. By Edgar Alfred Bowring”, p.9

topic: Dream, Sweet, Night, Silent Night

Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain.

- Jonathan Swift

topic: Dream, Night, Mind, Silent Night

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Beauty, Nature, Stars In The Night Sky, Stars In The Sky

A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like a jewel on her brow.

- Bryan Procter

topic: Stars, Night, Jewels, Silent Night

The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent fields; here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

source: Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poems, Letters and Memoirs (Including The Complete Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Avonlea & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Pat of Silver Bush, The Blue Castle & many more”, p.123, e-artnow

topic: Stars, Dark, Night, Silent Night, Slopes

O days remember'd well! remember'd all! The bitter sweet, the honey and the gall; Those garden rambles in the silent night, Those trees so shady, and that moon se bright, That thickset alley by the arbor clos'd, That woodbine seat where we at last repos'd; And then the hopes that came and then were gone, Quick as the clouds beneath the moon past on.

- George Crabbe

topic: Sweet, Garden, Past, Arbors, Shady

Silent night, holy night, when the bough flies from the tree and is hung everywhere, when from tables the crusts fly, when the gifts begin to tremble because lovelessness walks through the world, because it snarls at you, barks at you from the snow, and the silver ribbons rip and the tinsel rustles silvery, and the silver and gold, and a golden word come to you on which you choke because you have been sold and betrayed, and because it does not suffice that for you one is redeemed who once died.

- Ingeborg Bachmann

topic: Rip, Night, Snow, Redeemed, Lovelessness

Down the street the dogs are barking And the day is getting dark. As the night comes in a-falling, The dogs´ll lose their bark And the silent night will shatter From the sounds inside my mind, For I´m one to many mornings And a thousand miles behind. From the crossroads of my doorstep, My eyes they start to fade, As I turn my head back to the room Where my love and I have laid....

- Bob Dylan

topic: Song, Dog, Morning, Silent Night

The mental powers acquire their full robustness when the cheek loses its ruddy hue, and the limbs their elastic step; and pale thought sits on manly brows, and the watchman, as he walks his rounds, sees the student's lamp burning far into the silent night.

- Thomas Guthrie

source: Thomas Guthrie (1857). “The city, its sins and sorrows: being a series of sermons from Luke XIX.41”, p.17

topic: Night, Age, Lamps, Manly, Mental Power

If you're really worried about the effect of "Silent Night" on the kids, you need a hobby or something, and I'm glad you're pointing that out.

- Howard Dean

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: Kids, Night, Hobbies, Silent Night

Bethlehem was just the beginning. I call Jesus Christ's next appearance, Bethlehem, Act 2. No silent night this time, however. The skies will open, trumpets will blast, and a new kingdom will begin.

- Max Lucado

source: Source: www.biblegateway.com

topic: Jesus, Night, Sky, Bethlehem, Silent Night

Here I am leaving you clues. I am singing now while Rome burns. We are all just trying to be holy. My applejack, my silent night, just mash your lips against me. We are all going forward. None of us are going back.

- Richard Siken

topic: Night, Rome, Leaving, Silent Night

It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (2015). “Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.731, Booklassic

topic: Lonely, Nature, Night, Silent Night

You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light like blazes all across the sky They're going to aim the hoses on you, show 'em you won't expire Not till you burn up every passion, not even when you die Come on now, you've got to try, if you're feeling contempt, well then you tell it If you're tired of the silent night, Jesus, well then you yell it Condemned to wires and hammers, strike every chord that you feel That broken trees and elephant ivories conceal

- Joni Mitchell

source: Song: Judgement of the Moon and Stars, Album: For the Roses, 1972

topic: Jesus, Passion, Tired, Forest Fires, Silent Night