Slumber Quotes

138 Slumber quotes by 111 unique authors

Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand. — Virginia Woolf
Faith, courage, and intelligent and uninterrupted awareness - these qualities are to be present whether one is wide awake, half asleep, or in deep slumber.… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed… — Karl Marx
Ah, snug lie those that slumber Beneath Conviction's roof. Their floors are sturdy lumber, Their windows weatherproof. But I sleep cold forever And cold sleep… — Phyllis McGinley
There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for… — Vaclav Havel
Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers. — Ogden Nash
Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post. — Charles Caleb Colton
Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant. — Mahatma Gandhi
I have these slumber parties with my father [Steve Tyler], and when we can't sleep we stay up all night trading beauty tips. He knows… — Liv Tyler
My Faith is larger than the Hills— So when the Hills decay— My Faith must take the Purple Wheel To show the Sun the way—… — Emily Dickinson
Women are like that they don't acquire knowledge of people we are for that they are just born with a practical fertility of suspicion that… — William Faulkner
None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise… — Vaclav Havel
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self. — Muhammad Iqbal
Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that… — Michael Jackson
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. — Walter Scott
If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear. — William Shakespeare
Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken, While… — William Shakespeare
Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber. — Mahatma Gandhi
I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on the… — E. M. Forster
Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the… — Emily Bronte
A lang, lang time ago…” MacPhee began, ignoring St.Vincent’s low groan, “there was a bonnie maid called Malvina. She was the betrothed of Oscar, the… — Lisa Kleypas
Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them for thunderclaps, gun… — Andrea Camilleri

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