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“We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.”

Sometimes Problem Lying Night Pay Wonder Awake Awake At Night Money Problem

Author:Maj Sjowall

“It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes. There are nightingales in every garden, but police spies only in mine, I think. They sit under my windows in the darkness of the night and try to get a glimpse of how I spread sedition in Russia.”

Thinking Trying Lying Night Darkness Air Mines Quiet Garden Window Police Spread Russia Delicious Glimpse Spy Nightingales Restful

Author:Maxim Gorky

“Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting strangely at one sudden goal, Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers, Into one beautiful and perfect whole; And life's long night is ended, and the way Lies open onward to eternal day.”

World Way Love Long Soul Whole Beautiful Lying Night Goal Hours Perfect This World Flower Eternal Lonely Green Meetings Golden Weary Lone Long Nights Green Leaves

Author:Edwin Arnold

“Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.”

May Doe Lying Night Rich Stones Betray Unseen Jewels Gems

Book:The Works ... Re-edited. - London, G. Kearsley 1806

Source: The Works ... Re-edited. - London, G. Kearsley 1806

“Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Night lie before me and behind me night, And God within far Heaven refuse to light The consolation of the dawn for me,-- Between the shadowy burns of Heaven and Hell, It is enough love leaves my soul to dwell With memory.”

Soul Enough Light Lying Night Heaven Black Memories Behinds Hell Sea Refuse Bitter My Soul Dawn Sand Consolation Heaven And Hell Enough Love

Author:Madison Cawein

“A lot of people say you've got all the loving in the world when you walk out on stage. But hell, that applause don't help you any when you're lying in that bed at night being totally ignored”

People World Helping Lying Night Walks Hell Stage Bed Ignored Applause

Author:Patsy Cline

“Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean, the rock cuts cruelly into flesh; shatter the rock and the odor of flint rises to your nostrils, bitter and sharp. Whirlwinds dance across the salt flats, a pillar of dust by day; the thornbush breaks into flame at night. What does it mean? It means nothing. It is as it is and has no need for meaning. The desert lies beneath and soars beyond any possible human qualification. Therefore, sublime.”

“Then came nights when, lying awake beside my final wife, I would spend too much time putting my finger on what was wrong. I was wearing the finger out. What was wrong was very simple. Sometimes her life and mine fell on the same day.”

Sometimes Lying Night Simple Too Much Wife Mines Fingers Finals Awake

Book:Stories in the Worst Way

Source: Stories in the Worst Way

“The News-writer lies down at Night in great Tranquillity, upon a piece of News which corrupts before Morning, and which he is obliged to throw away as soon as he awakes.”

Lying Night Morning Pieces News Journalism Obliged Tranquillity

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“I get lots of ideas when the lights go out at night and it gets very quiet. Sometimes they come when I first lie down to sleep; other times I wake up with an idea racing through my mind. But regardless of when an idea comes, I have made it a habit to get out of bed and write the idea down before it disappears into my dreams. You should do the same.”

Should Writing Mind Firsts Made Ideas Sometimes Dream Light Lying Night Sleep Habit Bed Quiet Wake Up Disappear Made It Racing

Book:Embrace the Struggle: Living Life on Life's Terms

Source: Embrace the Struggle: Living Life on Life's Terms

“I pray the gods will give me some relief and end this weary job. One long full year I've been lying here, on this rooftop, the palace of the sons of Atreus, resting on my arms, just like a dog. I've come to know the night sky, every star, the powers we see glittering in the sky, bringing winter and summer to us all, as the constellations rise and sink.”

Knows Giving Long Ends Jobs Lying Night Stars Sky Dog Son Arms Praying Summer Give Me Winter Gods Will Weary Palaces I Pray Constellations Night Sky Rooftops Lying Here

Author:Aeschylus

“Since thou wouldst needs, bewitched with some ill charms, Be buried in those monumental arms: As we can wish, is, may that earth lie light Upon thy tender limbs, and so good night.”

Needs May Light Earth Lying Night Wish Arms Ill Charm Buried Limbs Good Night Bewitched

Author:Edmund Waller

“Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for theeany better melody in the April woods at dawnthan what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awakeo'night in his comfortless attic, might perchancebe aware of, when the rats run amok in his thatch?”

Might Running Lying Night Stones Woods Melody Rats Deaf April Attics Labourers

Author:Robert Bridges

“Night by night I will lie down and sleep in the thought of God, and in the thought, too, that my waking may be in the bosom of the Father; and some time it will be, so I trust.”

May Lying Night Father Sleep Meditation Down And Waking Trust Me Bosoms

Book:Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...

Source: Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...

“I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.”

Trying Years Sometimes Would Be Lying Night Imagine Periods Odd Awake Being The Best Seventies Awake At Night

Author:Michael Dirda

“While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.”

Soul Eye Lying Night Grief Half Bird Sight Rounds My Soul Shade Mirth

Book:The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas....: Now First Collected Together, and Corrected from the Roginals

Source: The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas....: Now First Collected Together, and Corrected from the Roginals

“In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.”

Ends Lying Night Fool Shadow Mark Delight

Book:The Verse of Hilaire Belloc

Source: The Verse of Hilaire Belloc

“When I lie on the beach there naked, which I do sometimes, and I feel the wind coming over me and I see the stars up above and I am looking into this very deep, indescribable night, it is something that escapes my vocabulary to describe. Then I think: 'God, I have no importance. Whatever I do or don't do, or what anybody does, is not more important than the grains of sand that I am lying on, or the coconut that I am using for my pillow.' So I really don't think in the long sense.”

Thinking Feels Long Doe Important Sometimes Lying Night Stars Wind Importance Naked Beach Sand Grain Vocabulary Pillow Very Deep Indescribable Grains Of Sand Coconuts

Author:Marlon Brando

“Behold a silly tender babe,In freezing winter night,In homely manger trembling lies;Alas! a piteous sight.”

Lying Night Sight Winter Silly Alas Babe Trembling Freezing Homely Winter Night

Book:St. Peter's Complaint: And Other Poems

Source: St. Peter's Complaint: And Other Poems

“The great thing about having been poor is how liberated it makes you if you eventually become rich. There's nothing like the knowledge that you don't need money to survive. That the money cushion you lie on every night doesn't have to be three feet thick, and you can still get to sleep.”

Ifs Needs Stills Lying Night Three Wealth Sleep Poor Rich Feet Great Things Thick Every Night Liberated Cushions Become Rich Need Money

Author:Bill Maher

“Look, Here are we, On this starry night staring into space, And I must say, I feel as small as dust, Lying down here...”

Feels Looks Lying Night Space Dust Staring Lying Down Starry Night Staring Into Space

Author:Dave Matthews

“Willie Mays was the best ever. When I was in college I once made a catch like the one Mays made over his head. Sometimes when I'm lying in bed at night I think about it. It still makes me warm.”

Thinking Made Stills Sometimes Lying Night College Bed Warm Best Ever

Author:David Duchovny

“At night I sit in my chamber and read the bible. Far in the distance roars the sea. Then I lie down and think for a long time about the calm and pale man from Nazareth.”

Thinking Men Long Lying Night Sea Long Time Down And Distance Calm Pale Chamber Nazareth

Author:Joseph Goebbels

“One night, I was lying in bed, and I was channel surfing between reality TV programs and actual war coverage. On one channel, there's a group of young people competing for I don't even know; and on the next, there's a group of young people fighting in an actual war. I was really tired, and the lines between these stories started to blur in a very unsettling way. That's the moment when Katniss's story came to me.”

People Knows Way War Moments Stories Reality Young Lying Night Fighting Next Lines Groups Tvs Bed Program Tired Competing Surfing One Night Coverage Blur Reality Tv Katniss

Author:Suzanne Collins

“I feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games.”

Feels Lying Night Games Player Sorry Awake Brooding Awake At Night

Author:Magnus Carlsen

“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.”

Thinking World Doe Lying Poetry Night Time Literature Lines Party Poet Expression Bed Poetry Is Poetry By Famous Poets Poetry By Poets What Is Poetry

Author:Allen Ginsberg

“When I sit with students, I do not just want to help them solve their problems. I want to find a moment with each person where their mind stops and their eyes open. I want us to be together as if we were lying in a field on the underside of the earth on a clear summer night, held only by the magnet of gravity, looking down into a bottomless sea of stars. I want us to remember together the beauty all around us.”

Ifs Want Mind Persons Moments Helping Problem Eye Earth Together Remember Lying Night Stars Clear Sea Fields Students Summer Solve Gravity Want U Magnet Looking Down Summer Nights

Author:Jack Kornfield

“What Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this or that condition, but Passion, Love, Desire itself, and in such infinitely varied phases as lie in her unique possession and are foreign and unknown to any other tongue...So...Here's to Victory, gained by our higher sense over the worthlessness of the vulgar! To Love, which crowns our courage...To the day, to the night!...And three cheers for Music.”

Source: Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays

“I love the night. I love to feel the tide of darkness rising, slowly and slowly washing, turning over and over, lifting, floating, all that lies strewn upon the dark beach, all that lies hid in rocky hollows.”

Feels Lying Night Dark Darkness Beach Rising Tides Floating Lifting Washing

Book:The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

Source: The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

“Once a month I wake in the night, slippery with terror. I'm afraid, not because there's someone in the room, in the dark, in the bed, but because there isn't. I'm afraid of the emptiness, which lies beside me like a corpse.”

Lying Night Dark Rooms Months Bed Terror Emptiness Corpses Slippery

Book:Wilderness Tips

Source: Wilderness Tips

“So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.”

Used Lying Night Silence Listening Noise Awake Awake At Night

Author:Muriel Spark

“The Moon and Pleiades have set, / Midnight is nigh, / The time is passing, passing, yet / Alone I lie.”

Lying Night Moon Passing Passings Midnight

Author:Sappho

“My day-mind can endure / Upright, in hope, all it must undergo. / But O, afraid, unsure, / My night-mind waking lies too low, too low.”

Mind Lying Night Lows Endure Waking Unsure

Author:Alice Meynell

“Lie in the sun with the child in your flesh shining like a jewel. Dream and sing, pagan, wise in your vitals. Stand still like a fat budding tree, like a stalk of corn athrob and aglisten in the heat. Lie like a mare panting with the dancing feet of colts against her sides. Sleep at night as the spring earth. Walk heavily as a wheat stalk at its full time bending towards the earth waiting for the reaper. Let your life swell downward so you become like a vase, a vessel. Let the unknown child knock and knock against you and rise like a dolphin within.”

“Oh how sweet to work for God all day, and then lie down at night beneath His smile.”

Lying Night Sweet His Smile

Author:Robert M

“Oh any sentimental person can cry at night, but when you begin to cry in the morning - to lie awake and cry in the morning-.”

Persons Lying Night Morning Cry Awake Sentimental Sentimentality

Book:The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales

Source: The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales

“I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I'm lying in bed I think up stories. That's where I do a lot of my thinking. I also get a lot of ideas while I'm reading - sometimes reading someone else's stories will make me think of one of my own.”

Thinking Ideas Sometimes Stories Lying Night Fall Reading My Own Trouble Bed Falling Asleep

Author:Linda Sue Park

“Without culture there can be no growth; without exertion, no acquisition; without friction, no polish; without labor, no knowledge; without action, no progress; and without conflict, no victory. The man who lies down a fool at night, hoping that he will waken wise in the morning, will rise up in the morning as he laid down in the evening.”

Men Action Lying Night Culture Growth Morning Wise Progress He Man Fool Victory Conflict Labor Evening Polish Acquisition Exertion Friction

Author:Frederick Douglass

“But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and blessed fatigue of a saint after the dark night of the soul. For God and Nothing have a lot in common. You look either one of Them straight in the eye for a second and the immediate effect on the human constitution is the same.”

Knows Feels Humans Looks Soul Eye Lying Night Dark Common Effects Holy Constitution Blessed Saint Get Up Emptiness Fatigue Dark Night Dark Night Of The Soul

Book:All the King's Men

Source: All the King's Men

“The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night.”

Ifs May Lying Night Secret Eggs Savages Vocabulary Paraphrase

Author:Loren Eiseley

“When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis. I went round the night my mother was lying in the kitchen, and I organised everything, from the undertaker to the funeral... I looked after everybody, I sorted it all out and Ive done so ever since.”

Done Lying Mother Night Father Died Crisis Rounds Kitchen Funeral My Sister Organised Undertaker Mother Died

Author:Stuart Rose

“Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it.”

Ifs Doe Home Happens Lying Night Culture Walks Teach Awake Cheat Vegas Cheater

Author:Tom Shadyac

“Château and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well-thousands of acres of land-a whole province of France-all France itself-lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hairbreadth line. So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.”

Source: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)

“"It is a sensation not experienced by many mortals," said he, "to be looking into a churchyard on a wild windy night, and to feel that I no more hold a place among the living than these dead do, and even to know that I lie buried somewhere else, as they lie buried here. Nothing uses me to it. A spirit that was once a man could hardly feel stranger or lonelier, going unrecognized among mankind, than I feel."”

Knows Men Feels Said Use Spirit Lying Night Mankind Stranger Mortals Sensations Buried Somewhere Else Spooky Using Me Windy

Book:Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day.”

Beautiful Lying Night Brother Flower Silent Memorial Memorial Day Deck Laurels Garlands Memorial Day Poems Beautiful Flower Memorial Day Remembrance

Book:Farm Legends

Source: Farm Legends

“You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie.”

Men Way Lying Night Girl Stars Rocks Chosen Breasts Rock Star Groupie

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“A man who values a good night's rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart, if he can help it.”

Ifs Men Heart Helping Lying Night Values Good Night Enmity

Book:The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself

“If Montaigne is a man in the prime of life sitting in his study on a warm morning and putting down the sum of his experience in his rich, sinewy prose, then Pascal is that same man lying awake in the small hours of the night when death seems very close and every thought is heightened by the apprehension that it may be his last.”

Ifs Men May Seems Lasts Lying Night Hours Morning Study Rich Sitting Warm Awake Prose Prime Apprehension Pascal Prime Of Life

Book:The Condemned Playground

Source: The Condemned Playground

“I make myself lie down every afternoon; otherwise I'll be too exhausted by the night-time. If I can't nap, I'll watch a little bit of TV and just relax for two or three hours.”

Ifs Littles I Can Two Lying Night Three Bits Hours Watches Tvs Little Bit Relax Afternoon Exhausted Naps Night Time

Author:China Machado

“I can't be a part of the problem. I hate the idea of a label just as much as anyone else but I'm with who I'm with, I love who I love and I'm if not a better actress than I was yesterday and my personal life should have no effect on that. I think that the injustice of people staying in the closet is more than I can bear with a clear conscience and I couldn't sleep at night if I was a part of that problem, if I was part of the lies.”