Desire Quote by Lyn Ducoty

“like he could devote his thoughts to something other than when he might get to sleep. Like his mind was huge and whirring and…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“It had been hard for months. Sleep would curl slowly around him while he was reading a book, sleep would trick him that he…

— Catherine O'Flynn

“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

“The night seemed long. Wilbur's stomach was empty and his mind was full. And when your stomach is empty and your mind is full,…

— E.B. White

“There were times when he sat watching the boy sleep that he would begin to sob uncontrollably but it wasn't about death. He wasn't…

— Cormac McCarthy

“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

“...an irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself...”

— Homer

“He was tired, he realized, emotionally and physically. He wanted to lie down and turn off the world and sleep for a week.”

— Allan Folsom

“I had been having trouble sleeping, and had found that actually getting up was marginally preferable to lying in my bed batting away the…

— Jojo Moyes

“He longed for sleep, but it would not immerse him; that night the waters he sought for his repose were deep enough to wade…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“I don't have any words to describe the sensations that keep me from sleep. Demons, perhaps. A sense of unworthiness so staggering that I…

— Barbara Quick

“I guess a state of dreamless sleep is what the universe must be experiencing all the time. It exists, but it does not know.”

— Rajesh