Domesticated Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer

“He slept like an animal, well and lightly, faced in the opposite direction from that of a man; for a man going to sleep…

— Theodore Sturgeon

“In the old days he would not have worried, but the fighting part of him was tired now, along with the other part, and…

— Ernest Hemingway

“And the king could find no sleep. Not then, not now, and still he waits to this day in a shell of spent flesh...…

— C.M. Hayden

“His heart beat slow, echoing in the ear he pressed against the pillow. Some nights, he would fall asleep listening to it, comforted by…

— Diana Gabaldon

“He wouldn't let his servants change the sheets on his bed because they still smelled like her, because he went to sleep dreaming that…

— Sarah J. Maas

“There's no animal that sleep-deprives itself like the human.”

— Henri Cole

“This was his favorite time of day, reading to his heart's content before going to sleep. When he tired of reading, he would fall…

— Haruki Murakami

“This was the first living creature I had ever loved passionately, because he returned my affection. My love for the animal was, no doubt,…

— Guy de Maupassant

“Woke to a bed familiarly empty, but a heart strangely full.”

— Hugh Howey

“Sleep met him like a lover in an empty bed.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“He would be admitting to himself that life has suddenly become very short, very precious, that soon he'll no longer exist, that it'll be…

— Miriam Toews

“But when at long last he had got his head out over the side of the bed, in mid-air, he became afraid of continuing…

— Franz Kafta