Curious Quote by Bill Bryson

Each evening, I ached for the shelter of my tent, for the smallest sense that something was shielding me from the entire rest of…

— Cheryl Strayed

To be honest I dont remember too much about it. All I remember is I had been awake for almost 86 hours, I was…

— Michael Cera

Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.

— William Golding

After a still winter night I awoke with the impression that some question had been put to me, which I had been endeavoring in…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Then Night came down like the feathery soot of a smoky lamp, and smutted[9] first the bedquilt, then the hearth-rug, then the window-seat, and…

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

There's a theory that snoring at night in sleep is a subconscious defence reflex-a warning sound that frightened potential predators away from the mouth…

— Gregory David Roberts

And when I say permanent afternoon, you know, I’m talking like crystal clear, crispy blue sky. All the sudden you didn’t need to sleep…

— DJ Spooky

I was awakened at midnight by some heavy, low-flying bird, probably a loon, flapping by close over my head, along the shore. So, turning…

— Henry David Thoreau

At night, before I go to bed, I check on the kids to make sure they're still breathing. But that's easy because my kids…

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

I couldn't sleep for nights on end, as my brain felt like there were thoughts colliding within it; I obsessed over small details, from…

— Andy Behrman

Throughout all of human history we've enjoyed certain benign circumstances: an envelope of atmosphere, an envelope of temperature. A kind of resilience that if…

— Sylvia Earle

All night, this soft rain from The distant past. No wonder I sometimes Waken as a child.

— Ted Kooser