Sleep Quote by Helen Oyeyemi

“At midnight when the fire had burnt down, and leaving the door wide open that she might have the lights behind her, she went…

— Enid Bagnold

“He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on their silent and sleepless axis, and…

— T.H. White

“As the glow of the cabin windows turned to flickers through the trees and then to black, her eyes adjusted and the starlight alone…

— Eowyn Ivey

“I wish I had the ability to sleep so peacefully, easily, but I am among the few who remain awake with the owls -in…

— Emily Curtis

“The plants and animals all around us were waking from a long sleep, and our yard was slowly transformed into a carpet of soft…

— Arlene Stafford-Wilson

“Now the day is done, Now the shepherd sun Drives his white flocks from the sky; Now the flowers rest On their mother's breast,…

— Louisa May Alcott

“From Tomorrow to Yesterday The tree trunks move in time with the rhythm of her rubber soles on the wet path, where the air…

— Jens Christian Grøndahl

“the sun was up so high when i waked, that i judged it was after eight o’clock. i laid there in the grass and…

— Mark Twain

“She was like a forest, like the dark interlacing of the oakwood, humming inaudibly with myriad unfolding buds. Meanwhile the birds of desire were…

— D.H. Lawrence

“And Sleep will not lie down, but walks Wild-eyed and cries to Time.”

— Oscar Wilde

May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“But the next morning, while night owls slept, I climbed trembling to her cubicle and woke her, weeping aloud with a crazed love that…

— Gabriel García Márquez