History Quote by Penelope Lively

“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

“...time begins when we awaken and ends when we fall asleep...”

— John Geddes

“Sleep's what we need. It produces an emptiness in us into which sooner or later energies flow.”

— John Cage

“Time is conscience of the universe.”

— Raheel Farooq

“Whether we sleep or wake, the vast machinery of the universe still goes on.”

— Thomas Paine

“Time Dreams. They are memories of the soul. They encompass all Time. They exist in the space of a dream.”

— Tom Stafford

“Time is a dream - or a nightmare - from which there is never any waking. We who travel in Time are dreamers who…

— Michael Moorcock

“A while later, I lingered in the hinterlands of sleep. Sometimes I think there is more rest in that place between wakefulness and sleep…

— Robin Hobb

“Father Earth thinks in ages, but he never, ever sleeps. Nor does he forget.”

— N.K. Jemisin

“Sleep was out there somewhere over the curve of the earth.”

— Don DeLillo

“Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon…

— Tom Althouse

“Time is the Mind of Space.”

— Samuel Alexander