He Lay Quotes

44 quotes by 36 authors

But Mr. Hale resolved that he would not be disturbed by any such nonsensical idea; so he lay awake, determining not to think about it. — Elizabeth Gaskell
He lay back for a little in his bed thinking about the smells of food . . . of the intoxicating breath of bakeries and… — Evelyn Waugh
Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a… — Ray Bradbury
My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage could long cloud… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not… — Stevie Smith
He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence. — Virginia Woolf
A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you… — Charles Dickens
This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Was his life nothing? Had he nothing to show, no work? He did not count his work, anyone could have done it. What had he… — D. H. Lawrence
He awoke, opened his eye. The room meant very little to him; he was too deeply immersed in the non-being from which he had just… — Paul Bowles
He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on… — Cormac McCarthy
This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate… — John Irving
Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafÃ©s in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats and soldiers of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
He lay face down, listening to the silence. He was perfectly alone. Nobody was watching. Nobody else was there. He was not perfectly sure that… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Pain! Deep, tearing, throbbing, needle-sharp, hammer-blunt pain â€“ ripping through his body and through his mind, twisting deep in his guts and slicing at his… — Stuart Hill
And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world. — J.R.R. Tolkien
He smoked a cigarette, standing in the dark and listening to her undress. She made sea sounds; something flapped like a sail; there was the… — Nathanael West
The queen is head. Long live the queen...me." The platoon of renegade soldiers cheered. Redd kicked The Cat where he lay on the floor, tongue… — Frank Beddor
Everyday he got up. Before sleep wore off, he was who he used to be. Then, as his consciousness woke, it was as if poison… — Alice Sebold

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