Sleep Quote by Stefan Zweig

“The mind is in a sad state when Sleep, the all-involving, cannot confine her spectres within the dim region of her sway, but suffers…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Sleep takes her down fast, and very deep, whirls her through places too fragmentary to call dreams, then spits her abruptly back to the…

— William Gibson

“She let herself stray past the stage of sleep and even past the stage of remembering, and she wanders into the stage of soul-searching.…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

“The thought burrowed into her heart as darkness fell. It coiled in her guts as she wedged herself amongst the boughs of a tree…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

“Sometimes when she lies awake her body feels as finely made as a tuning fork. She can hear and smell the most delicate things,…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

“She looked down at her watch and it read 1:05am. She couldn’t believe that she’d been sleeping on the train for so long. It…

— Emma Knight

“Then she tried to bore herself to sleep by thinking about things like yogurt and the structure of a gas pedal.”

— Jessica Park

“There was the focus of seeking pleasure, and the numbing effect, once they were finished, removing all specific thoughts from her brain. It ushered…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“A tiredness crept over her that would shame narcoleptics. She could sleep anytime, anywhere, in any position. No hyperbole. I mean, we'd be at…

— Ryan Knighton

“While she lay there with these old worn thoughts coming obediently into her mind, called there by habit and the familiar quiet of early…

— Stella Gibbons

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

— William Lavender

“...too weary and dazed by unfinished sleep even to swear. There comes a degree of numbness in fatigue and exasperation which can be expressed…

— Humphrey Cobb