Dark Quote by John Updike

“Sleep is a vortex in your tales, swirling a person into deep places of their minds where consciousness is scared to tread.”

— Andrew Barger

“My overbearing mind has dug its claws deep within me. I struggle to sleep every night. Hell, I'm tired of acting like I'm alright,…

— James B. Agape

“Night gets its own way in the end. The torches go out, the fire burns down to its internal organs, and the hall is…

— Matthew Francis

“There is no darkness when I go to sleep; the wicked, as they say, never truly rest. I see blinding flashes of desperate arms…

— Alex Tanner

“The part of the deep night when it’s impractical to do anything useful, but sleep won’t come, so the mind swirls around in the…

— Eliza Maxwell

“Night Watch Awake for hours and staring at the ceiling Through the unsettled stillness of the night He grows possessed of the obsessive feeling…

— Vikram Seth

“When the sun was set I might perhaps go to sleep. I never let myself sleep during the day. Daytime sleep is a cursed…

— Iris Murdoch

“The mind is in a sad state when Sleep, the all-involving, cannot confine her spectres within the dim region of her sway, but suffers…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“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

“I finally drift back to sleep. I'm in the darkness. The molecules of my mind are still scattered, and I float through oily black…

— isaac marion

“the night falls dark so then our minds can rest to furnish the thoughts for tomorrow.”

— Danny MaDannies

“When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside…

— Cormac McCarthy