Virginia Woolf Quotes, Lying Quotes, Sleep Quotes

We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep.

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I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T will keep." I woke and chid my honest fingers,— The gem was gone; And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Jewels Quotes

There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him, "What was that, George, what were you doing?" And he said, "They were sleeping." You're always trying to catch them.

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Tags : Al Pacino Quotes , Summer Quotes , Sleep Quotes

We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Animal Quotes

Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Sleep Quotes

If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Virtue Quotes

The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Flower Quotes , Sleep Quotes

And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Summer Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Eye Quotes

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Dream Quotes , Sleep Quotes

O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Awake Quotes

Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Mind Quotes

The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Night Quotes

Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Dream Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Queens Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Acceptance Quotes

Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Block Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting That would not let me sleep.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Heart Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Bold words and bolder deeds are what we want. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Motivational Quotes , Sleep Quotes