Adversity Quote by Antonio Porchia

Nobody knows what either sleep or waking consciousness is, even though these two have long been seen as the two sides of being: part…

— Siri Hustvedt

Sleep is a mirror of life in which can be seen the reflection of death.

— Wasif Ali Wasif

“So start with the waking state. When you are hungry eat, but always remember that it is the body that is hungry, not you.…

— Osho

Humans are potentially capable of living in a state of consciousness compared to which normal wakefulness is like sleeping or dreaming.

— Eckhart Tolle

We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.

— Thomas Browne

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

— Frank Herbert

Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.

— Alice Hoffman

Do you want a sign that you're asleep? Here it is: you're suffering. Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch with the…

— Anthony de Mello

Sleep, you say, is the image of death; for my part I say that it is rather the image of life.

— Blaise Pascal

It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness

— Lisa Bonet

The world of sleep has an existence of its own.

— Victor Hugo

There, in the depths of sleep, is the communion of the living and the dead.

— Gennadiy Aygi