Quotes About Slumber

She'd been betwitched. She'd pricked her finger and had fallen into a deep, comalike sleep.

Then why not indulge yourself at once? Sleep, by all means, if such be your means of procuring the concord of celestial sounds. Pray do not hesitate; you will find every incentive to slumber, and for what else but to send people asleep was the opera invented?

Someday, when the world is much older, and when mankind will be masters of all the destructive powers in nature, to serve for the general good of humanity; when mankind, as you were just saying, have discovered the secrets of death, then that death will become as sweet and voluptuous as a slumber in the arms of your beloved.

Sometime I'll lay down my wrath, As I lay my body down Between the ache of breath and breath, Golden slumber in the bone.

I turned my face away. She should not act thus. She ought not to excite my imagination with such displays of heavenly innocence and happiness, nor awaken my heart from its slumbers, in which it dreams of the worthlessness of life!

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:So shall thy poverty come as one that traveleth, and thy want as an armed man.

People who are in deep slumbers are in humongous numbers so even difficult to count them

A rebel can be a miserable and contemptible man; but there is nothing contemptible in a revolt as such - and to be a rebel in view of contemporary society does not in itself lower the value of a man. There are even cases in which one might have to honour a rebel,because he finds something in our society against which war ought to be waged - he wakens us from our slumber.

But sleep was busy elsewhere

Yet Betty would learn among the black Muslims that any black person clever or lucky enough to reach adulthood must choose between slumber and strugle.

We sleep, we doze, we meditate-we discover ourselves in our passions and our disasters, but also in our slumber, and in our dreams.

At night on land migrating monarchs slumber on certain trees, hung in festoons with wings folded together, thick on the trees and shaggy as bearskin. [p. 244]

I thought I'd stumbled on Sleeping Beauty and her ugly sister,' said another voice, 'waiting for the kiss of true love to wake them from their slumbers. Forgive me if I didn't oblige.

careful the morning lest it wake from slumber the city half-encumbered by the morning mist ...

Terror came. I would fall into a slumber of days, and getting up would go on with the same sad dreams. I was ripe for death and along a road of perils my weakness led me to the confines of the world and of Cimmeria, home of whirlwinds and of darkness. - Delirium II - Alchemy of the Word

To saints their very slumber is a prayer.

When they were tired Night rained her thick dark sleep upon their eyes.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

The autumn winds rushing Waft the leaves that are searest, But our flower was in flushing, When blighting was nearest. Fleet foot on the correi, Sage counsel in cumber, Red hand in the foray, How sound is thy slumber! Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain, Thou art gone, and for ever!

sleeping sprawled out on the bed

I'm such a sleep pussy.

Without contradiction, there would be no life, no movement, no progress, a deadly slumber of all forces.

Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.

It must be very peaceful, he thought, to lie and slumber and dream forever and ever, with the wind whispering through the trees and caressing the grass and the flowers over the grave, and nothing to bother and grieve about, ever any more.