Breathing Quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson

“She let herself stray past the stage of sleep and even past the stage of remembering, and she wanders into the stage of soul-searching.…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

“She sleeps. And now she wakes each day a little less. And, each day, takes less and less nourishment, as if grudging the least…

— Angela Carter

I wonder how well she sleeps at night, and what kind of dreams she has. I wish I could step into them like she…

— Isaac Marion

Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could at least attempt sleep and…

— Anna Godbersen

She tells her love while half asleep, In the dark hours, With half-words whispered low: As Earth stirs in her winter sleep And puts…

— Robert Graves

“Not knowing what to make of it, he admired her longer. The fact that she’d chosen his bed couldn’t be a coincidence, so he…

— Vivienne Savage

“Lying asleep between the strokes of night I saw my love lean over my sad bed, Pale as the duskiest lily's leaf or head,…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

“She was sent to sleep under a velvety cloak of words, richly patterned and stitched with gold, straight out of a fairy tale, while…

— Eudora Welty

All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“She slept but a few hours. They were troubled and feverish hours, disturbed with dreams that were intangible, that eluded her, leaving only an…

— Kate Chopin

She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.

— Jeanette Winterson

She who does not know she isa patient lies Within a tent of green, and sleeps without a sound

— James Kirkup