Rabindranath Tagore Night Quotations

In the night we stumble over things and become acutely conscious of their separateness, but the day reveals the unity which embraces them. And the man whose inner vision is bathed in consciousness at once realizes the spiritual unity which reigns ove

The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day.

The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth."

Days are coloured bubbles that float upon the surface of fathomless nights.

Night's darkness is the bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.

Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his sight whose breath touches my sleep?

Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: "I painted the night".

I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip.

Only Thee That I want thee, only thee---let my heart repeat without end. All desires that distract me, day and night, are false and empty to the core. As the night keeps hidden in its gloom the petition for light, even thus in the depth of my unconsciousness rings the cry ---`I want thee, only thee'. As the storm still seeks its end in peace when it strikes against peace with all its might, even thus my rebellion strikes against thy love and still its cry is ---`I want thee, only thee'.

This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and Day; the One and the Varied; the Eternal and the Evolving.