Fear Quote by Lee Irby

“When our life crackles and sparks like a torch, we curse the necessity of spending eight hours uselessly in sleep. When we have been…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening

— Anonymous

“We rest; A dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; One wandering thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The drowsiness returns. It is unwelcome. I recognize it as the sort of fitful twilight which has come over me of late, a twilight…

— Walker Percy

“The arousing from sleep, after a recent misfortune, is a bitter moment; the mind at first habitually recurs to its previous tranquility, but is…

— Anonymous

“But you will remember it, in the soft, lost, slumbering moments between waking and true sleep: remember the whispering voices of the Gods of…

— Neil Gaiman

“We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It’s as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out windows,…

— Michael Cunningham

Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.

— Iris Murdoch

“I feel the heaviness of nightmares even though I am awake. How weary I am, how sleepless and hopeless—there is no escape from the…

— Margarita Engle

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

— Andrew Barger

“Behold now, let the Dead and Living meet! Across the gulf of Time they still are one. Time hath no power against Identity, though…

— H. Rider Haggard

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