Books Quote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“...he spent whole days and nights over his books; and thus with little sleeping and much reading his brains dried up to such a…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Thus ran his thoughts; he wanted to go to bed, but he felt loath to tear himself away from the book.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“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

“But he suddenly started up, and closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, as though he sought to imprison within his brain…

— Oscar Wilde

“his mind wandered ceaselessly, hopping from memory to make-believe and then to his grim reality in a painful loop.”

— Peter Meredith

“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 fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom. ”

— Heinrich Heine

“As he fell asleep, his mind tormented him with the image of one face; the man he had thought was his father. At first,…

— Joe Craig

“But after a while, the whole thing just wasn’t interesting to him anymore, and he ran out of things to keep himself numb.”

— Stephen Chbosky

“He took deep breaths. He wanted to sleep. At least in sleeping, he could find a kind of peace. At least in sleeping, he…

— Alex London

“But he was exhausted, too, and not even feeling as if he were alive. Inside him, it felt as if something brilliant, some fire,…

— Douglas Clegg

“He looked down at me without recognition, and I realized with a little stab of anxiety that he must have forgotten all about me,…

— Daphne du Maurier