Good night phrases: the 100 most beautiful 🆙

A collection of good night phrases, for your love, your friends and loved ones.

Even if we don't say "Goodnight" as often as we say "Hello," it's still something the vast majority of us do every day.

When we say good night to someone, we let them know that we care about them, their well-being, and we wish them the best for the next day.

Whoever you want to say good night to and how you want to say it, these good night phrases are for you. Enjoy the reading!

140 beautiful good night quotes

As usual with our collections of slightly "full-bodied" phrases, we've decided to sort them alphabetically for better orientation!

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Good night phrases: from 1 to 20

What good is sleep if you can't dream? ~ Lum

In Naples the night is indescribably beautiful. ~ Hans Christian Andersen

Sometimes you have to stay away from the people you love, but that doesn't mean you love them less, sometimes it makes you love them even more. ~ Nicholas sparks

One by one the nights, between our separate cities, are added to the night that unites us. ~ Pablo Neruda

Love from the heart the people with whom destiny has united you. ~ Marco Aurelio

Love, love madly, love as much as you can and if they tell you it is a sin, love your sin and you will be innocent. ~ William Shakespeare

Loving you too much is one of my problems. ~ Hervé Villechaize

Listen, softly, in a breath, the voice of those who love you will float in the night, and in your sleep, our thoughts will unite. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Beware the fears of the day. They love to steal the dreams of the night. ~ fabrizio caramagna

Dark blue is the color of the night where our eyes, ears, words, everything is concentrated and blocked. ~ Yoshimoto Banana

Good night Good Night! Parting is such a sweet pain I'll say goodnight until morning. ~ William Shakespeare

Good night to those who wait. To those who have the strength to get up after every fall. ~ Elvira Asylum

Good night to you who invade my thoughts, tonight close your eyes and listen to the silence, and if you feel a gust of wind in your hair don't wake up, it's me who hugs you with my thoughts. ~ Ejay Iván Lac

Good night my love. Today I love you more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. ~ Mariana Ximenes

Good night Good Night! Parting is such a sweet pain I'll say goodnight until morning. ~ William Shakespeare

Who says that he who sleeps does not fish? In dreams you can catch fish of all colors and sizes, you can swim with them in the depths of the ocean, and you can even talk to them. ~ Lama Thubten Yeshe

Who knows if one day, looking into the eyes of those who will take you after me, you will look for something that belongs to me. ~ Pablo Neruda

We'll just hold hands and walk lightly, saying meaningless, stupid, dear things. ~ Dino Buzzati

What the night brings within us can leave stars. ~ Victor Hugo

Good night phrases: from 21 to 40

I would pick a star from the sky for you and close it in a precious chest, if I could. If I could, I'd seal love in a tall, narrow bottle so you could drink it when you needed it. ~ Anne Sexton

Who dreams during the day knows many things that escape those who dream only at night. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

What could be better for two souls than knowing how to be united for life? ~ George Eliot

What stars did we fall from to find ourselves here? ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Since I love you, my loneliness begins two steps away from you. ~ Jean Giraudoux

Give me silence and I will defy the night. ~ Khalil Gibran

I have to forgive myself for my own good. One cannot always feed a snake in his belly, nor get up every night to sow thorns in the garden of his soul. ~ Oscar Wilde

At night everything takes on lighter, nuanced, almost magical forms. Everything is softened and attenuated, even the wrinkles of the face and those of the soul. ~ Romano Battaglia

Whatever our souls are made of, mine and yours are made of the same. ~ Emily Brontë

God gave you a gift of 86.400 seconds today. Did you use one to thank him? ~ William Arthur Ward

The tops of the mountains and the gorges, the peaks and the cliffs, and the hosts of animals, those who feed the black earth, and the proud inhabitants of the mountains and the race of bees and monsters in the depths of the purple sea sleep; flocks of birds with outstretched wings sleep. ~ Alcmane

Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun moves, doubt that the truth is a liar, but never doubt my love. ~ William Shakespeare

And to each one his house, to each one his bed and his shadow. Then people give themselves over to sleep. ~ Rocco Scotellaro

And I like to listen to the stars at night. They are like five hundred million bells. ~ by Saint-Exupéry

And if it's all a dream, what does it matter. I like it and I want to continue dreaming. ~ Luis Sepúlveda

We were together. I have forgotten everything else. ~ Walt Whitman

Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. ~ Victor Hugo

Maybe to the world you are just one person, but to one person you are the whole world. ~ Del Dr. Seuss

I have always believed, and continue to believe, that sleep is something invincible. There is no contention, no sorrow, no love that sustains. ~ Jean de La Fontaine

Good night phrases: from 41 to 60

I dreamed of you as you dream of the rose and the wind. ~ Alda Merini

The warriors of light often spend the night dressed in white, thinking that their lives have no meaning. That is why they are warriors of light. Why are they wrong? Why do they question themselves? Because they are looking for a reason: and they will surely find it. ~ Paulo Coelho

The boys who love each other are not for anyone, they are somewhere else, beyond the night. ~ Jacques Prévert

True friends share dreams and hopes. ~ Luis Sepúlveda

The day is made in the morning, at noon, in the afternoon and at night, while the night is only the night. If a night owl wakes up in the morning, it doesn't know what to do or where to go. ~ Achilles bell tower

The day, the water, the sun, the moon, the night. I don't have to buy these things with money. ~ Plautus

My heart is close to you, even though my body is far away. If you can't see it, all you have to do is go down to your heart and there you will find mine. ~ Bernard of Clairvaux

The sun embraces the earth and the moon's rays kiss the sea. But what are all these kisses worth if you don't kiss me? ~ Mary Shelley

The dream sometimes has the immensities of the most intense life in the space of an hour. ~ Carlo Maria Franzero

The dream is a skillful magician, it modifies the proportions of things and their distances. ~ Jose Saramago

Sleep is a capricious divinity and just when it is invoked it makes us wait. ~ Father Alexandre Dumas

Success is being able to go to bed every night with a peaceful soul. ~ Paulo Coelho

Your love is to me like the morning and evening stars, it sets after the sun and before the sun rises again. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

True love is like a lighted window on a dark night. ~ Giuseppe Ungaretti

Grow old with me! The best is yet to come. ~ Robert browning

I love the night because at night all the colors are the same and I am the same as the others. ~ Bob Marley

I exist in two places, here and where you are. ~ Margaret Atwood

The night is not less wonderful than the day, it is not less divine; at night the stars shine brightly, and there are revelations that the day ignores. ~ Nikolai Berdyaev

The wealth of my heart is as infinite as the sea, so deep is my love: the more I give you, the more I have, because both are infinite. ~ William Shakespeare

Society often forgives the criminal; but does not forgive the dreamer. ~ Oscar Wilde

Good night phrases: from 61 to 80

People who love each other can be separated from the circumstances of life but, even in a dream, the night belongs to them. ~ Patti Smith

The stars in the sky laugh and how my eyes shine when they imagine you. ~ shen-fu

Love is not about finding someone to live with. It's about finding someone you can't live without. ~ Rafael Ortiz

Love knows how to read what is written on the farthest star. ~ Oscar Wilde

Love is a dream. Dreams are beautiful, but don't be surprised if you wake up crying. ~ Jim Morrison

The eye sees things more clearly in dreams than when awake. ~ Leonardo da Vinci

But who are you that, advancing in the dark of the night, stumble upon my most secret thoughts? ~ William Shakespeare

It is better to sleep free in an uncomfortable bed than to sleep captive in a comfortable bed. ~ Jack Kerouac

I fell in love with you / and now I don't even know what to do / the day I regret meeting you / the night I come looking for you. ~ Luigi Tenco

Millions and millions of years still won't give me enough time to describe that little moment of eternity when you hugged me and I hugged you. ~ Jacques Prévert

In the dream there is always something absurd and confusing, you never get rid of the vague feeling that everything is false, that at a good moment you will have to wake up. ~ Dino Buzzati

In the hours that I spend with you I look at a kind of perfumed garden, a soft twilight light, and a fountain that sings to it. You and only you make me feel alive. Other men say they have seen angels, but I have seen you and you are enough. ~ Jorge Augusto Moore

Nothing ends, but everyone is connected in the same circle: they flee and chase each other. The day is banished from the night, the night from the day; summer ends with autumn, this is pressed by winter, which in turn closes with spring: so everything happens to return. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nothing is real except dreams and love. ~ Ana de Noailles

I never imagined that sleeping could be so exhausting. ~ Neon Genesis Evangelion

I don't understand why insomnia always comes at night. It would be good for me during the day. ~ paolo duna

There is no softer pillow than a clear conscience. ~ Ken blanchard

There has never been a night or a problem that could defeat the dawn or hope. ~ Bernard Williams

There is nothing so sweet in life as dreams of young love. ~ Thomas Moore

There is no night without stars. ~ andre norton

Good night phrases: from 81 to 100

There is no night long enough for the sun not to rise again the next day. ~ Jim Morrison

Never forget about me, because if I only thought that you could, I would never leave you. ~ A. A. Milne

Never say that dreams are useless, because the life of those who cannot dream is useless. ~ Jim Morrison

It was not my lips that you kissed, but my soul. ~ Judy Garland

I don't know where my path goes, but I walk better when my hand holds yours. ~ Alfred de Musset

It's not smart to stay in bed at night and ask yourself questions you can't answer. ~ Charlie Brown

Lonely night alone like my fire | rest your head on my heart and turn it off little by little. ~ Fabrizio De André

Nothing will stop the sun from rising again, not even on the darkest night. Because beyond the black curtain of the night a dawn awaits us. ~ Khalil Gibran

O burning star, if I were constant like you! ~ John Keats

Today I finally understood that we are all different: there are those who have beauty, those who have talent, those who have money, and then there are those who are sleepy. Goodnight. ~ Charlie Brown

Every night when I go to bed I hope I won't wake up anymore and every morning my pain is renewed. ~ Franz Schubert

Oh, you are more beautiful than the evening air that saw the beauty of a thousand stars. ~ Christopher marlowe

Now I say goodnight to you, like every time. I kiss you and then I wish you goodnight, and then I open the door and then I walk out into the street with a full heart and a hungry soul. But I keep coming back, over and over again, to kiss you and say good night and open the door and go out with a hungry soul and a full heart. ~ Khalil Gibran

Think of the morning. Evening act. Eat at night. Sleep at night. ~ William Blake

I often think that the night is more lively and colorful than the day. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien

May the moon rock you, may the stars take care of your sleep, and bring you the most beautiful dreams from heaven. ~ Ki no Tsurayuki

I can say that my life is in tune with the most fantastic dreams. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

Since we dream about our life, we must interpret it and find out what it is trying to tell us. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

When you sincerely search for love, you find it waiting for you. ~ Oscar Wilde

Good night phrases: from 101 to 120

When the lights go out at night... you keep your heart going! Goodnight! ~ Stephen Pocapalabra

When he dies, take him and cut him into little stars, and he will make the face of the sky so beautiful that everyone will fall in love with the night. ~ William Shakespeare

When you are no longer a part of me I will cut out many little stars from your memory, then the sky will be so beautiful that the whole world will fall in love with the night. ~ William Shakespeare

When you look at me, when you think of me, I'm in heaven. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray

The more I close my eyes, the better they see, because all day they look at things unworthy of note; But when I sleep, they see you in dreams. ~ William Shakespeare

This year the costume test failed miserably. The pajama test, however, will be a success. ~ carmen silveira

I recognize love from afar, from those who are by my side. ~ Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva

You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams. ~ Del Dr. Seuss

Saying goodbye is such a sweet pain that I would say goodbye until tomorrow. ~ William Shakespeare

I would be lost if I lived a single moment without you. ~ Ugo Foscolo

Will we be happy or sad, who cares? We will be side by side. And this must be, this is the essential. ~ Gabriele D'Annunzio

If you listen very carefully to the wind, you will hear it whisper my love for you. ~ andres davidson

If love is blind, all the better it fits with the night. ~ William Shakespeare

If love is blind, all the better: it fits in with the night. ~ William Shakespeare

If you don't love me, I will never be loved. If I don't love you, I will never love. ~ Samuel Beckett

If only, when midnight comes, you would send me a greeting with the stars. ~ Anna Akhmatova

If you don't love me, it doesn't matter, I can love for both of us. ~ Ernest Hemingway

You are the window to which I sometimes direct words at night, when my heart shines. ~ Alda Merini

You are always close when you love. Distance separates bodies, not souls. ~ George L Edwards

We too are made of the same stuff that dreams are made of; and our short life is enclosed in the space and time of a dream. ~ William Shakespeare

Good night phrases: from 121 to 140

I know that the night is not like the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day because then they do not exist. ~ Ernest Hemingway

Only by dreaming and staying true to dreams can we be better and, if we are better, the world will be better. ~ Luis Sepúlveda

Only for love love me. And forever, for eternity. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browing

Being with you or not being with you is the measure of my time. ~ Jorge Luis Borges

I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you still have to be. ~ Ernest Hemingway

I love you terribly. If a flower bloomed every time I thought of you, all the deserts would be full of it. ~ Khalil Gibran

Love you. You are a thought too important to hold in one hand, you are a recurring song in my dreams. Love is a word of light, written by a hand of light, on a page of light. ~ Khalil Gibran

You who enter my heart, pay no attention to disorder. ~ Jean Rochefort

You look at the stars, my star, and I would like to be the sky to look at you with a thousand eyes. ~ Plato

You are my sun, my moon and all my stars. ~ EE Cummings

You are a beautiful thought, the most sublime thing a hand can hold. You are a recurring song in my dreams. ~ Khalil Gibran

You are one of those people who meet when life decides to give you a gift. ~ Charles Dickens

Everything I love loses half of its pleasure if you are not there to share it with me. ~ jose ortega y gasset

It all comes down to the last person you think of at night: that's where the heart is. ~ Charles Bukowski

I hate you how much I love you, crazy how crazy I am. ~ Charles Baudelaire

A kiss on your mouth, another in your heart. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Only one being is missing and everything is depopulated. ~ Alphonse de Lamartine

One dream leads to another ~ spanish proverb

A look from you, a single word from you, tells me more than all the wisdom in this world. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I want to be inside your darkest side. ~ Frida Kahlo

Good night phrases: from 141 to 145

I would like to give you everything you never had, and still you would not know how wonderful it is to love you. ~ Frida Kahlo

It is about cities like dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed but even the most unexpected dream is a puzzle that hides a desire or its reverse, a fear. Cities like dreams are built of desires and fears. ~ Italo Calvino

It is night when it is good to believe in the light. ~ Edmond Rostand

It's sweet to close your eyes to fall asleep and then open them again to explore the world of dreams. ~ Shotoku Taishi