Calamity Quote by Samuel Johnson

I believe that in intense conflict, far from becoming sharper, differences melt away.

— Rene Girard

“The enemy does not sleep? What if I scientifically informed you that the enemy within is the one you should deal with?”

— DON SANTO

Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.

— Arthur Schnitzler

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one…

— Isoroku Yamamoto

In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.

— Erich Fromm

I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a…

— William Shakespeare

There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed…

— Maurice Blanchot

When the enemy is awake and around, don't ever shut your eyes even for a single second no matter how sweet and tempting the…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

We are living on the brink of the apocalypse, but the world is asleep.

— Joel C. Rosenberg

Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is…

— Ogden Nash

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

— Leonard Cohen

Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects…

— Friedrich Nietzsche