Consciousness Quote by Jane Austen

“Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first night after parting from Willoughby. She would…

— Jane Austen

“Sleep, or repose that deserved the name of sleep, was out of question. That room, in which her disturbed imagination had tormented her on…

— Jane Austen

“She looked like she was waking up in a strange place—only she knew she hadn’t gone to sleep yet, and that this was actually…

— David Levithan

“She slept but a few hours. They were troubled and feverish hours, disturbed with dreams that were intangible, that eluded her, leaving only an…

— Kate Chopin

“Sleeping and waking, the notion of being lost, of having wandered out of the right life, kept turning up in different guises. She imagined…

— Robert Stone

“She wondered at her previous blindness; it was as if she had closed her eyelids, and then fancied it was night. No fear that…

— Mary Shelley

“Her mind was still tiptoeing along the boundary of consciousness, in that state of semi-waking that spins threads between dream and real, and for…

— Laini Taylor

She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again -…

— Susan Sontag

“She sleeps. And now she wakes each day a little less. And, each day, takes less and less nourishment, as if grudging the least…

— Angela Carter

She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense of an…

— Ayn Rand

“For the rest, she grew used to the life that she was leading - used to the enormous sleepless nights, the cold, the dirt,…

— George Orwell

“He knew that she had been dreaming that night and he knew what her dreams were about. She had forgotten them. He forebode to…

— W. Somerset Maugham