Apparitions Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep…

— Hector Hugh Munro

“He lay still, his bloodshot eyes staring blankly before him, and drifted into dreams of his problems, compulsively living out dialogues, summing up emotional…

— Richard Wright

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to…

— Anonymous

“All I know is that while I’m asleep, I’m never afraid, and I have no hopes, no struggles, no glories — and bless the…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“But then I have long since grown accustomed to the thought that what we call dreams is semi-reality, the promise of reality, a foreglimpse…

— Vladimir Nabokov

These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no need to…

— Homer

“Sleep, or repose that deserved the name of sleep, was out of question. That room, in which her disturbed imagination had tormented her on…

— Jane Austen

“...one of the roles of man is to shut his eyes and keep them shut to see if he can continue into the night…

— Machado de Assis

“He’s like a hero come back from the war, a poor maimed bastard living out the reality of his dreams. Wherever he sits himself…

— Henry Miller

“The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in…

— Plato

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

— Sigmund Freud