Defeated Quote by Arthur Koestler

Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an alarm bell,…

— Horace Mann

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

— Colleen McCullough

Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death

— Homer

“All I know is that while I’m asleep, I’m never afraid, and I have no hopes, no struggles, no glories — and bless the…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“...an irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself...”

— Homer

“To what temptations, to what extremities does lucidity lead! Shall we desert it now to take refuge in unconsciousness? Anyone can escape into sleep,…

— Emil Cioran

“drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnal round, the monotonous sorrow of the finite, within       I am awake repairing in…

— Frank Bidart

How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish.

— Philip K. Dick

Sleep was the greatest invention in the history of mankind. When I was sleeping, I wasn’t feeling guilty, or miserable, or sad.

— Jenna Black

“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

“The deep sleep of an untroubled conscience.”

— Juliana Gray