Dreams Quote by Jonathan Swift

At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.

— Jack Kerouac

I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body…

— Arthur Golden

Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.

— James Joyce

For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For…

— Anonymous

“It was a wonderful thing to think for how many thousands of years the dead orb above and the dead city below had gazed…

— H. Rider Haggard

“When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead" When you see millions of the mouthless dead Across your dreams in pale battalions go, Say…

— Charles Hamilton Sorley

I suppose I knew on an intellectual level that graves weren't especially made for getting out of. I mean, you start with a hermetically…

— C.E. Murphy

“,,The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness (...) Atrocities, however, refuse to be buried". ,,Filk wisdom is filled with ghosts…

— Judith Herman

My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was sensible that…

— James Boswell

But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to recollect it.…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Every time I had a vision of myself lying dead somewhere, it was up there, in the Highlands.

— Michael Herr

“And I— soft, weak, obscene, digesting, juggling with dismal thoughts— I, too, was In the way . Fortunately, I didn’t feel it, although I…

— Jean-Paul Sartre