Earth Quote by Emily Bronte

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…

— Emily Bronte

Slumbering in every human being lies an infinity of possibilities, which one must not arouse in vain. For it is terrible when the whole…

— Elias Canetti

A thought once awakened does not again slumber.

— Thomas Carlyle

O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“As anyone who has struggled with insomnia knows, trying to force sleep is at best a hopeless business. Slumber is unimpressed by suitors.”

— Tasha Alexander

“They could lie drowsing now under the sound of kindly voices in the living room, a sound whose intricately rhythmic rise and fall would…

— Richard Yates

My slumbers--if I slumber--are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not: in my heart There is a…

— Anonymous

I was awakened at midnight by some heavy, low-flying bird, probably a loon, flapping by close over my head, along the shore. So, turning…

— Henry David Thoreau

O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep…

— William Shakespeare

“Not slumber, but sleep just this side of waking, where dreams fuse with reality.”

— Ellen Hopkins

To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just…

— Nicole Krauss

One slumber finds another.

— George Herbert