--- title: "1 Night Imagined Quotes By David Vann" description: "1 Night Imagined quotes by David Vann. Plus more from David Vann and more Night Imagined sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83b/david-vann-31426_quote_when-i-went-to-sleep-each-night-i-imagin_275951.jpg" --- > [“When I went to sleep each night, I imagined myself at the bottom, thousands of feet down, the weight of all that water but I was gliding just above ground, something like a manta ray, flying soundless and weightless over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-vann/when-i-went-to-sleep-each-night-i-imagined-myself-at-the-bottom/) [David Vann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-vann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83b/david-vann-31426_quote_when-i-went-to-sleep-each-night-i-imagin_275951.jpg) ## More by David Vann > [“What if everything was unfinished? What if everything was made incomplete?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-vann/what-if-everything-was-unfinished-what-if-everything-was-made/) [David Vann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-vann/) > [“She had made him into a kind of husband,her own son.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-vann/she-had-made-him-into-a-kind-of-husband-her-own-son/) [David Vann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-vann/) > [“When I went to sleep each night, I imagined myself at the bottom, thousands of feet down, the weight of all that water but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-vann/when-i-went-to-sleep-each-night-i-imagined-myself-at-the-bottom/) [David Vann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-vann/) > [“A city holds all that we want and a million times what we don't want.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-vann/a-city-holds-all-that-we-want-and-a-million-times-what-we-don-t-want/) [David Vann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-vann/) > [“A favored bit from "A Legend of Good Men" "My mother and I each had our routines. She taught high school, took long hikes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-vann/a-favored-bit-from-a-legend-of-good-men-my-mother-and-i-each-had-our/) [David Vann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-vann/) > [“This table felt extremely dangerous. He understood now that what held his family together was violence.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-vann/this-table-felt-extremely-dangerous-he-understood-now-that-what-held/) [David Vann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-vann/) > [“What do we owe for what has come before us, the previous generation?... The problem is that we can never enter this shadow world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-vann/what-do-we-owe-for-what-has-come-before-us-the-previous-generation/) [David Vann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-vann/) > [“WE THINK OF CAIN AS THE ONE WHO KILLED HIS BROTHER, but who else was around to kill? They were the first two born.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-vann/we-think-of-cain-as-the-one-who-killed-his-brother-but-who-else-was/) [David Vann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-vann/) > [“That night longer than all my life before it. No scale or measure in this world can ever be held constant. We are always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-vann/that-night-longer-than-all-my-life-before-it-no-scale-or-measure-in/) [David Vann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-vann/) > [“One night becomes sixty nights. This is the price of hiding. Just hold your breath for one minute and find out what a minute…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-vann/one-night-becomes-sixty-nights-this-is-the-price-of-hiding-just-hold/) [David Vann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-vann/) > [“The point was the struggle. The earth thickened here so that he would labor. The shovel felt heavy so that he could feel he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-vann/the-point-was-the-struggle-the-earth-thickened-here-so-that-he-would/) [David Vann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-vann/) > [“The entire legacy of humanity will be only one thing, a line of red goop in the paleo-oceanographic record, a time of no calcium…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-vann/the-entire-legacy-of-humanity-will-be-only-one-thing-a-line-of-red/) [David Vann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-vann/) > [“We're not supposed to touch the dead. This is why we make a comfortable afterlife for them, so they will not reach out. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-vann/we-re-not-supposed-to-touch-the-dead-this-is-why-we-make-a/) [David Vann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-vann/) > [“Low branches, dead and snapping against us. On the lookout for rattlesnakes. But the path was short enough, and soon we were on a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-vann/low-branches-dead-and-snapping-against-us-on-the-lookout-for/) [David Vann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-vann/) > [“I thought that was a wonderful idea, that one could be on hell without being in it, like “Just Visiting” on the Monopoly board.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-vann/i-thought-that-was-a-wonderful-idea-that-one-could-be-on-hell-without/) [David Vann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-vann/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/night-imagined/david-vann/#itemlist", "name": "1 Night Imagined Quotes By David Vann", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“When I went to sleep each night, I imagined myself at the bottom, thousands of feet down, the weight of all that water but I was gliding just above ground, something like a manta ray, flying soundless and weightless over endless plains that fell away into deep canyons of darker black and then rose up in spires and new plateaus, and I could be anywhere in this world, off Mexico or Guam or under the Arctic or all the way to Africa, all in the one element, all home, shadows on all sides of me gliding also, great wings without sound or sight but felt and known.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "David Vann" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-vann/when-i-went-to-sleep-each-night-i-imagined-myself-at-the-bottom/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83b/david-vann-31426_quote_when-i-went-to-sleep-each-night-i-imagin_275951.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83b/david-vann-31426_quote_when-i-went-to-sleep-each-night-i-imagin_275951.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83b/david-vann-31426_quote_when-i-went-to-sleep-each-night-i-imagin_275951.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“When I went to sleep each night, I imagined myself at the bottom, thousands of feet down, the weight of all…” — David Vann", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/night-imagined/david-vann/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/night-imagined/david-vann/", "name": "Night Imagined Quotes by David Vann", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/night-imagined/david-vann/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83b/david-vann-31426_quote_when-i-went-to-sleep-each-night-i-imagin_275951.jpg" }, "description": "1 Night Imagined quotes by David Vann. 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