Robert-harris Quote by Robert Harris

“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

“It was one of those rare nights when I was kept awake not by my nightmares and anxieties but by something exciting and exhilarating.…

— Azar Nafisi

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

— Homer

“Sleep looked so much like death, he saw. Every night people perished, if but for a moment. The cryopods and this hopping through the…

— Hugh Howey

“He tried to think of death as he had done now and then, but that tired him and he dozed off. When he awoke…

— Hermann Hesse

“He couldn’t believe that sleep had robbed him of this spectacle night after night. Such are the writer’s privileges, he thought, nostalgic already for…

— César Aira

“After a night filled with more activity than sleep, he felt justified in their late awakening.”

— Vivienne Savage

“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

“And yet when I went to sleep, it was like I became part of some larger human experience that was utterly heartbreaking. It was…

— Sebastian Junger

“What the hell time is it?" muttered the old man. He was always an aggressive sleeper. Sleep was one of the things he did…

— Jean Shepherd

“The minutes were cruel. Hours were punishing. Standing above him at all moments of awakeness was the hand of time, and it didn’t hesitate…

— Markus Zusak

“No one was truly awake. No one was truly alive. They must have wanted it that way. Checking”

— Hugh Howey