Sleep Quote by Salman Rushdie

“In India she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. The fact was that the fresh wind from the…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Lady Bracknell: “He was eccentric, I admit. But only in later years. And that was the result of the Indian climate, and marriage, and…

— Oscar Wilde

“The India of the picture had never existed outside its gilt frame, and the emotions the picture was meant to conjure up were not…

— Paul Scott

“As a romantic ideal, turbulent, impoverished India could still weave its spell, and the key to it all - the colours, the moods, the…

— Alexander Frater

“came to India with a whole lifetime of expectations and assumptions about the way the world should work, the way life was supposed to…

— Jenny Feldon

“I was now so exhausted and sleepy that I could scarcely keep awake, although it was mid-day. So I told the Indians I was…

— Daniel Webster Jones

“Live life as it was meant to be lived. Half asleep, preferably. [...] She preferred [...] to go to sleep at once, sleep now…

— Jonathan Coe

“She was in ward 33 again, lying in bed, a bed with a dark green sheet and a view of the outside. We could…

— Jerry Pinto

“she had been interested in many things, but nothing had completely satisfied her; indeed, she hardly desired complete satisfaction. Her intellect was at the…

— Anton Chekhov

“She confused in her desire the sensualities of luxury with the delights of the heart, elegance of manners with delicacy of sentiment. Did not…

— Gustave Flaubert

“‎All she felt was mind-numbing exhaustion, and a desperate yearning for the sweet forgetfulness of sleep.”

— William Lavender

“He found her under my care,” she protested. “I have done everything for her. But for me she should have starved in the streets.”…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett