Forster Quote by E.M. Forster

“He was the only person awake, but he might as well have been alone and dreaming.”

— Jedediah Berry

“I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide.”

— H.G. Wells

“I wondered if my head and heart would ever reconcile, or whether I'd just cursed myself to relive this moment for the rest of…

— Margaret Rogerson

“I finally understand what it's like to be truly awake, and I never ever want to go back to sleep again.”

— Donna Cooner

“And yet when I went to sleep, it was like I became part of some larger human experience that was utterly heartbreaking. It was…

— Sebastian Junger

“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

“It was only an idea, a sudden flash, but it kept coming back to me, and I couldn't help thinking, why am I alive,…

— Milan Kundera

“any life dissected too closely was boring and could only make you fall asleep.”

— Kathleen Collins

“Cool!” he said. “Did you know if you wake someone up when they’re sleepwalking, they’ll die?” I threw him a cynical look. “Where’d you…

— Tracey Lee Campbell

“To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“It had felt as if I were truly awake for the first time, true knowledge running like ice in my blood. The memory exhilirated…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“It felt like he'd been pushing himself into my life from the very first time I dreamt of him. Ever since, my life had…

— L.J. Kentowski