For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. William Shakespeare
As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose. George Chapman
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east. Roberto Bolaño
For full indeed is earth of woes, and full the sea; and in the day as well as night diseases unbidden haunt mankind, silently bearing ills to men, for all-wise Zeus hath taken from them their voice. So utterly impossible is it to escape the will of Zeus. Hesiod
Black as night and as beautiful as forever. Stephen King
Who arrives in the darkness departs as night falls. Chinese Proverb