Desire Quote by Elizabeth Gaskell

“‎All she felt was mind-numbing exhaustion, and a desperate yearning for the sweet forgetfulness of sleep.”

— William Lavender

“...an irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself...”

— Homer

“The tragedy, however, is that you soon realize that the time you thought you had to fulfill the dreams had melted away before your…

— Sunday Adelaja

“As for me, I longed to love as some people long to cry. I felt that every hour I slept now would be an…

— Albert Camus

“The innate longing within every soul is to awaken from the spirit's slumber and then to journey home.”

— Patsie Smith

“Some like to sleep. Some like to read late into the night without catching a wink. In a world of dreamers, both are essential.”

— Amanda Joy Bruns

“we are convinced that sleep is a waste of valuable time and continue to chase these fantasies far into the night.”

— Alan Wilson Watts

“…But all life turns away from its own eventual hopelessness, leaving insomnia and its night to lovers and the dying.”

— John McGahern

“She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream. Sleep is a little…

— George R.R. Martin

“And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”

— Betty Smith

“Desire, the only feeling that keeps us awake, both in our dreams and in reality.”

— Alice K. Green

“I want to feel the approach of sleep as if it were a promise of life, not rest.”

— Fernando Pessoa