Drowsy Quotes
50 quotes by 43 authors
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In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its…
— James Russell Lowell
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To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman…
— Washington Irving
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As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of the leather on…
— Christopher Paul Curtis
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You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and bring…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for…
— George Jean Nathan
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Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
— William Shakespeare
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When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of…
— C.S. Lewis
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If we come to sleep we are His drowsy ones And if we come to wake we are in His hands If we come to…
— Rumi
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And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.
— William Shakespeare
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After a few mouthfuls of moon-flavored air, even the stubbornly drowsy can find themselves wide-eyed.. All the normal noises of life were gone, leaving behind…
— N.D. Wilson
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It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that drowsy intimacy in which a…
— Diana Gabaldon
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The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Warm are the still and lucky miles, White shores of longing stretch away, A light of recognition fills The whole great day, and bright The…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain…
— Gustave Flaubert
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Some people wake up drowsy. Some people wake up energized. I wake up dead.
— John Marsden
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Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a 3 -legged race with a life size rag doll.
— Rick Riordan
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It was a drowsy summer afternoon, and the Forest was full of gentle sounds, which all seemed to be saying to Pooh, 'Don't listen to…
— A A Milne
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Alex took a silent step closer to the kitchen door and watched unseen as willow spooned instant coffee into a pair of mugs.With another yawn,…
— L.A. Weatherly
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Perhaps, after all, our best thoughts come when we are alone. It is good to listen, not to voices but to the wind blowing, to…
— Gladys Taber
Who Wrote These Drowsy Quotes
43 authors contributed a total of 50 Drowsy Quotes, led by these top contributors: