Crisis Quote by Hippocrates

“That tendency...to lie awake between the hours of two and four, when the chrysalis of faint misgiving becomes so readily the butterfly of panic.”

— John Galsworthy

“Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe.”

— Victor Hugo

“I fear being shaken out of them because I am afraid that my peaceful sleep may be followed by hard labour when I wake,…

— René Descartes

“In this snug, oversafe corner of the world we need it, that we may realize that our comfortable routine is no eternal necessity of…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“What is uneasy when you are awake in the daylight is terror in the dark honesty of your dreams.”

— Deb Caletti

“There's a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the night's.”

— Ed Gorman

“There are moments, such as the one that oppresses me now, when I feel my own self far more than I feel external things,…

— Fernando Pessoa

“We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Or does the presence of the other, who yesterday morning felt almost like an intruder, become ever more necessary because it shields us from…

— André Aciman

“I thought I could hear movement in the kitchen, perhaps a voice murmuring, but it was a matter of urgency that I should get…

— Helen Garner

“some of the happiest moments of my life have occurred just before I fall asleep or wake up, when I linger in that twilight…

— Irving Singer

“Catastrophes have a somber way of arranging things.”

— Victor Hugo