Assumption Quote by Marshall McLuhan

“Sleeplessness kept claiming her nights, and she used books as shields against the onslaught of her abstract terrors.”

— Hernan Diaz

Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“ The king sleeps still, under a mountain , and around him is assembled his warriors and his herds and his riches. By his…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“There are twin Gates of Sleep. One, they say, is called the Gate of Horn and it offers easy passage to all true shades.…

— Virgil

Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the…

— Agnes Repplier

“And I have faith that you'll make a wonderful head of the Council someday, Sophie." Yeah, except for that whole sleeping with the enemy…

— Rachel Hawkins

“On all sides I could hear the creaking of the bedsteads, as the brethren of Blithedale started from slumber, and thrust themselves into their…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

This sleep is sound indeed; this is a sleep That from this golden rigol hath divorc'd So many English kings.

— William Shakespeare

For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared; Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both…

— Edmund Spenser

“Abed, the walls pressed close and the ceiling hung heavy above him; abed, the room was his cell and Winterfell his prison. Yet outside…

— George R.R. Martin

“Bran knew that men slept on top of women when they shared a bed. Sleeping under Lord Manderly would be like sleeping under a…

— George R.R. Martin

“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