Anxiety Quote by Anonymous

“We rest; A dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; One wandering thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Sleep, or repose that deserved the name of sleep, was out of question. That room, in which her disturbed imagination had tormented her on…

— Jane Austen

Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.

— John Milton

“Asleep you don’t feel pain or hunger, or loneliness, or bitterness. In sleep you can drown in false euphoria, and when you awaken, you…

— V.C. Andrews

“Life often lulls us to sleep, makes us drowsy with the promise of unbroken tranquillity, only to stir us from our peaceful slumber with…

— Lee Irby

“The moral world has no greater spectacle than this: a troubled and restless conscience on the verge of committing an evil deed, contemplating the…

— Victor Hugo

“As happiness recedes into dreams, the passion ended where it began: in sleepness.”

— Franz Kafka

“When he woke up in the darkness of his hot and stuffy room he felt, even before his mind began working again, that painful…

— Guy de Maupassant

“In my late thirties the dream of disappointment and exhaustion had been the dream of the exploding head: the dream of a noise in…

— V.S. Naipaul

“The mind is in a sad state when Sleep, the all-involving, cannot confine her spectres within the dim region of her sway, but suffers…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria…

— Mohsin Hamid

“Restlessness and worry are always connected to desire, and when we recognize this and let go of the desire, the heart is purified and…

— Ayya Khema