Children Quote by Victor Hugo

“I shall die while he sleeps. The two slumbers may be good neighbors." The”

— Victor Hugo

“My child died last night—and now I shall be alone again, if I must really go on living. They will come tomorrow, strange, hulking,…

— Stefan Zweig

“…he closed the venetian blinds and then the drapes, and he lay down on the outside of the coverlet. But sleep would not come.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“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

“The man who buries his house in the sand and digs it up again, each evening, learns to put it together quickly and just…

— Agha Shahid Ali

“He had heard the children’s talk, and his heart was very heavy as he looked about the shabby room that used to be so…

— Charles Dickens

“Billy took off his tri-focals and his coat and his necktie and his shoes, and he closed the venetian blinds and then the drapes,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“As a youth, he would lie awake listening to the sounds of the night—his sisters’ breathing, the dog at the back door—and worry about…

— John J. Winters

“curled up, closed his eyes, and marched himself off, as if sleep were an actual place, like home, like the kitchen—a place a mouse…

— Cynthia Voigt

“Sometimes during the night, your father awakened. He rose from his bed, staggered across the room, and found the strength to raise the window…

— Mitch Albom

“The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in…

— Henry James

“He must have read that sleep is death’s little brother.”

— Petra Hammesfahr