Blindness Quote by Edwin Muir

“Are there nations whose governments do all kinds of evil but never wake up and continue to sleep soundly? Yes, there are! But we…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.

— Andre Malraux

“There is a kind of sleep that steals upon us sometimes, which, while it holds the body prisoner, does not free the mind from…

— Charles Dickens

The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos…

— Christopher Morley

One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's…

— Herman Melville

Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be…

— Mark Twain

Here, in the bare dark face of night A calm unhurried eye draws sight We see in what we think we fear The cloudings…

— Iain Banks

Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep — that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange…

— Thomas Wolfe

I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.

— Robert Harris

When we think of nothing our mind and heart are relaxed. But when we get hooked into a world of despair we're being drowned…

— Jeremy Limn

What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with…

— Albert Camus