Acting Quote by William Shakespeare

“There is a kind of sleep that steals upon us sometimes, which, while it holds the body prisoner, does not free the mind from…

— Charles Dickens

“The moments that precede sleep are very similar to death. We are filled by a torpor and it is impossible to know when the…

— Paulo Coelho

“Sleep, or repose that deserved the name of sleep, was out of question. That room, in which her disturbed imagination had tormented her on…

— Jane Austen

I shall never sleep calmly again when I think of the horrors that lurk ceaselessly behind life in time and in space, and of…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I had forgotten what sleep is like - a kingdom all its own.

— Anne Truitt

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The really strange thing about being awake isn’t being awake; it’s the people that aren’t. They’re walking and talking in their dreamstates; some of…

— Jed McKenna

I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner, who threw himself about in his sleep,…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?

— Arthur Rimbaud

“Whatever we may say, all of us suffer from disturbed sleep at times. Some in truth hardly sleep, though some who sleep copiously swear…

— Gene Wolfe

In sleep a king, but, waking, no such matter

— William Shakespeare