Every step Quote by Hermann Hesse

“And where was Atman to be found, where did He reside, where did his eternal heart beat, where else but in one's own self,…

— Hermann Hesse

“Later, when his desires had been satisfied, he slept in an odorous whorehouse, snoring lustily next to an insomniac tart, and dreamed. He could…

— Salman Rushdie

“It was one of those southern nights under whose spell all the sterner energies of the mind cloak themselves and lie down in bivouac,…

— George W. Cable

“He was a creature of the last turning of the centuries when sleep seemed to come more easily. Things were clear to him. He…

— Erik Larson

“A while later, I lingered in the hinterlands of sleep. Sometimes I think there is more rest in that place between wakefulness and sleep…

— Robin Hobb

“A moment later he was in his garden, walking, meditating, contemplating, his heart and soul wholly absorbed in those grand and mysterious things which…

— Victor Hugo

“For who would lose, though full of pain, this intellectual being, those thoughts that wander through eternity to perish rather, swallowed up and lost…

— John Milton

“He was there alone with himself, collected, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the skies, moved in the…

— Victor Hugo

“Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the Master is awake And he lives forever.…

— Dhammapada

“He undressed, lay down, put out the light. Two names he whispered into his pillow, the few chaste northern syllables that meant for him…

— Thomas Mann

“Life is meant to realize your true Self (Atman) in the Divine Consciousness (God) and be immortal and blissful forever.”

— Shiva Negi

“But before going to bed, he fell on his knees and prayed a long time. In his fervent prayer he did not beseech God…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky