Left behind Quote by Vicente Aleixandre

“After the dead words, after the ones still said and spoken, what do you expect? Some flying leaves, more scattered papers. Who knows? Some…

— Vicente Aleixandre

“Sleepless nights, infinite random thoughts, Remembering those moments, he had much to say, an urge to talk to someone, to be cared, to be…

— self

“A while later, I lingered in the hinterlands of sleep. Sometimes I think there is more rest in that place between wakefulness and sleep…

— Robin Hobb

“The part of the deep night when it’s impractical to do anything useful, but sleep won’t come, so the mind swirls around in the…

— Eliza Maxwell

“In the deeper hours of the night I began to look at myself, to consider myself and my condition, to measure the life I'd…

— Steve Martin

“Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“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

“You know your heart and soul are stapled to that manuscript, but what we see are the words on the paper”

— Teresa Nielsen Haydense

“We are not meant to know everything, Mae. Did you ever think that perhaps our minds are delicately calibrated between the known and the…

— Dave Eggers

“Poor sleepers should endeavor to compose themselves. Tampering with empty space, stirring up echoes in pitch-black pits of darkness is scarcely sedative. ("Out Of…

— Walter de la Mare

“Bury the embers, extinguish the spark We plunge ourselves in the well of dark Far from voices that trouble and chatter Down, deep down,…

— Shannon Hale

“...at that time of all times for yearning and longing, just before the sharp senses lose their outlines in sleep.”

— Elizabeth Gaskell