Precious is sleep, better to be of stone, while the oppression and the shame still last;not seeing and not hearing, I am blest;so do not wake me, hush! keep your voice down.
...the souls of none of them were dead, but only sleeping; now and then they would waken, and these were cruel times.
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Anonymous
Sleep, where in the waste is the wisdom?
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James Joyce
If you can't turn off your thoughts, who cares how soft your pillow is?"- David King
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Robert Liparulo
But lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that.
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E.L. Konigsburg
I felt myself falling asleep; my eyes were closing, and then I thought, Maybe I should just kill myself. Suicidal thoughts always sneak up on me like that. But I don’t mind them. They’re like aspirin. They calm me down.
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Jonathan Ames
More Quotes By Michelangelo Buonarroti
No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.
If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.
Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness--these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.
As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.
