Quote by Bram Stoker

“who can tell me that that calmness itself is not DESPAIR?”

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“I decided that if I didn't allow myself to fall asleep, then I wouldn't have to wake up again and despair.”

— Sara Baume

“...How terrible, those dreams before sleep were—the worse kind, mixing hope with despair...”

— John Geddes

“Yet, sleep does not come. The mind wanders to defy, my heartfelt dreams of slumber.”

— Jazz Feylynn

“He took deep breaths. He wanted to sleep. At least in sleeping, he could find a kind of peace. At least in sleeping, he…

— Alex London

“Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where there was…

— Diana Gabaldon

“Aren't you feeling lonely? You should go home and confront things, the dark room whispered. I had always hated how things seemed ever so…

— Lindsey Kelk

“That night, how could I sleep? I lay and watched the lonely gloom; And watched the moonlight creep From wall to basin, round the…

— Rupert Brooke

“My thoughts are quiet, but not calm. There is a terror on the edge of the silence, a terror fed by my burning flesh…

— Christine Fonseca

“Just as I am drifting off to sleep, he speak again, so softly I almost cannot be certain it is not a dream. "I…

— Robin LaFevers

“Though sleep was dearly needed, it was not welcomed, for even in sleep I was tormented.”

— Dave Moore

“My only doubt was as to whether any dream could be more terrible than the unnatural, horrible net of gloom and mystery which seemed…

— Bram Stoker