Despite Noise Quote by Anthony Doerr

“Sleepiness seemed to be creeping out of the ground and up their legs, and falling softly out of the air upon theirheads and eyes.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Those who wanted to sleep, not from fatigue but because of the nostalgia of dreams...”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Sleep isn’t laziness — it’s survival.”

— Latora Crawford

“I thought I could hear movement in the kitchen, perhaps a voice murmuring, but it was a matter of urgency that I should get…

— Helen Garner

“We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in cold.”

— Wallace Stevens

“Sometimes the bravest thing in the world was to sit through the night and feel the cold in your bones.”

— Tim O'Brien

“The humans hadn’t gotten a lot of sleep last night, from the crowding and the strong possibility of dying.”

— Martha Wells

“Sleep deprivation is physically miserable and creatively cathartic, as internal landscapes rise up from their dormant ashes.”

— Jaeda DeWalt

“...at that time of all times for yearning and longing, just before the sharp senses lose their outlines in sleep.”

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“We all have remarkable capacities asleep inside of us. If only we bothered ourselves to awaken them.”

— Joshua Foer

“She had been in one of those sleeps so heavy they leave you feeling sad, disorientated, your stomach full of tears. A sleep so…

— Leïla Slimani

“Sleep is a fickle thing that has little to do with fatigue and everything to do with peace of mind.”

— Linda Castillo