Sleepers – Quotes

this one whom habit

this one whom habit of memory propels to the ground of his making, sleeper only the mortal sounds can sing awake, this blessing love gives again into our arms. Galway Kinnell

There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was also no one more ferocious when anyone disturbed the sensuality of her thinking she was still asleep when she no longer was. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One should be either

One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. Eugene O’Neill

wondered how anyone could

wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth. Emily Bronte

I lingered round them,

I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth. Emily Bronte

Insomnia\\\” perhaps she\\’s a

Insomnia\” perhaps she’s a daytime sleeper. Elizabeth Bishop

I\\’m a terrible sleeper.

I’m a terrible sleeper. I get obsessive, repetitive thoughts and it’s horrible. Eliot Paulina Sumner

What do you plan

What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore? Friedrich Nietzsche

My Heart I\’m not

My Heart I’m not going to cry all the time nor shall I laugh all the time, I don’t prefer one \”strain\” to another. I’d have the immediacy of a bad movie, not just a sleeper, but also the big, overproduced first-run kind. I want to be at least as alive as the vulgar. And … Read more

Ecology is a dirty

Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. \”Leave me alone! It’s not time to get up yet!\” Frank Herbert