Best shadow & sleep Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In an old song the Mother sings: 'My sleeping is my dreaming, my dreaming is my thinking, my thinking is my wisdom.' She is the bed we are born in, in which we sleep and dream, where we are healed, love and die. In her wisdom we remember day's broken images and carry them down into dreams where their motions roll into shadows and root, growing into stories.”

Thinking Stories Dream Remember Mother Song Dies Born Sleep Growing Broken Bed Shadow Roots Healed Old Song Sleep And Dream Broken Images

Author:Meinrad Craighead

“I dug it, New York City, all-the streets and the snows and the starving and the five-flight walkups and sleeping in rooms with ten people. I dug the trains and the shadows, the way I dug ore mines and coal mines. I just jumped right to the bottom of New York.”

People Way Sleep Rooms Cities Five Streets New York Mines Ten Shadow Train Bottom Snow Flight New York City Coal Starving Sleeping In

Author:Bob Dylan

“Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to the contemplation of her own substance, as if awakened from deepest sleep, opens those eyes which all possess but few use, and sees in herself a ray of that light which is the true image of the angelic beauty communicated to her, and of which she then communicates a faint shadow to the body.”

Ifs Soul Matter Philosophy Use Body Light Eye Spiritual Sleep Study Shadow Vices Communicate Intellect Substance Contemplation Rays Spiritual Life Devoted Awakened Angelic

Book:The Book of the Courtier

Source: The Book of the Courtier

“Memories may escape the action of the will, may sleep a long time, but when stirred by the right influence, though that influence be light as a shadow, they flash into full stature and life with everything in place”

May Long Light Action Memories Sleep Influence Long Time Shadow Flash Stature

Book:John Muir: Nature Writings

Source: John Muir: Nature Writings

“Don't laugh at the voice of the stars. They are far away, their rays are light and pale, and we can barely see their sleeping shadows, but their sorcery is stern and dark.”

Light Stars Voice Dark Sleep Laughing Shadow Rays Far Away Pale Astrology Sorcery

Book:He, the One who Gets Slapped: A Play in Four Acts

Source: He, the One who Gets Slapped: A Play in Four Acts

“I've been sleeping through my life Now I'm waking up And I want to stand in the sunshine I have never been ecstatic Had a flower but it never bloomed In the darkness of my wasted youth It was hiding in the shadows Learning to become invisible Uncover me”

Want Sleep Darkness Youth Flower Shadow Wake Up Invisible Sunshine Hiding Waking Ecstatic Hiding In The Shadows

Author:Juliana Hatfield

“But Thee, but Thee, O sovereign Seer of time, But Thee, O poets' Poet, Wisdom's Tongue, But Thee, O man's best Man, O love's best Love, O perfect life in perfect labor writ, O all men's Comrade, Servant, King, or Priest, -- What IF or YET, what mole, what flaw, what lapse, What least defect or shadow of defect, What rumor, tattled by an enemy, Of inference loose, what lack of grace Even in torture's grasp, or sleep's, or death's -- Oh, what amiss may I forgive in Thee, Jesus, good Paragon, Thou Crystal Christ?”

Source: Poems of Sidney Lanier

“To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet, the dust, which assail in endless succession that shadow of a man which we call his reputation.”

Men Sleep Subjects Failure Shadow Forgotten Endless Reputation Dust Heat Chill Succession Blast Sleet

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“I've never been able to sleep very much, even when I was a kid. I used to hate being forced to lay in bed in the darkness, and just shifting in bed and staring at the shadows.”

Kids Able Used Hate Sleep Darkness Bed Shadow Lays Staring Shifting

Author:Dan Chaon

“The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.”

Doe Soul Body Night Sleep Morning Shadow Possession Insomnia Repose Phantoms Sleeping In Inns Sleepiness Sleeping At Night Not Sleeping Lack Of Sleep Rest And Sleep

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“Shadows are falling and I've been here all day/It's too hot to sleep, time is running away/Feel like my soul has turned into steel/I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal.”

Feels Stills Soul Running Fall Sleep Sun Shadow Hot Heal My Soul Scar Running Away Steel Time To Sleep

Author:Bob Dylan

“When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.”

Looks Book Dream Eye Beautiful Sleep Fire Shadow Nostalgia Retirement Gray Glowing Overhead Bending Nodding Bending Down

Author:William Butler Yeats

“He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep! When his blood bursts from the grape and flows across tables laid in his honor to fuse with our blood, he gently, gradually, wraps us in shadows of ivy-cool sleep.”

Care Force Sleep Blood Honor Laughter Shadow Flow Tables Release Communion Limbs Liberating Wraps Grapes Repose Ivy Flutes Fuse

Author:Euripides

“Anyone who says, “Here’s my address, write me a poem,” deserves something in reply. So I’ll tell you a secret instead: poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes, they are sleeping. They are the shadows drifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them.”

Way Writing Moments Sleep Secret Shadow Deserve Wake Up Bottom Shoes Addresses Ceilings Drifting

Author:Naomi Shihab Nye

“When You Are Old" WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.”

Men Looks Littles Book Soul Moments Dream Eye Faces Stars Sleep Fire Grace Sorrow Mountain Shadow Crowds Glad Bars One Man Grey Glowing Pilgrim Overhead Bending Nodding Bending Down

Author:William Butler Yeats

“There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world from the one in which you lay down. The shadows have been rearranged. There's a sensation of sad sweetness, as if something has been overlooked. I used to feel it coming out of the movies just before dinnertime, after the matinee. How, I wondered, did Broadway actors face it, this bittersweet sense of time's slipping past.”

“He would have told her - he would have said, it matters not if you are here or there, for I see you before me every moment. I see you in the light of the water, in the swaying of the young trees in the spring wind. I see you in the shadows of the great oaks, I hear your voice in the cry of the owl at night. You are the blood in my veins, and the beating of my heart. You are my first waking thought, and my last sigh before sleeping. You are - you are bone of my bone, and breath of my breath.”

Source: Daughter of the Forest: A Sevenwaters Novel 1

“Most of them... most of us never figure it out. Bad dream, they think, or good one. Funny rash, never really goes away, but Doc says it's fine, nothing to worry about. Why dwell on it? But some people, they just can't let it go... Some people drink themselves out of school trying to find it again, trolling through bars where the shadows are so greasy they leave trails on the walls, just to find a way in, a way through. Some people forget too that you're supposed to stop sleeping, you're supposed to have a life in the sun.”

People Thinking Way Trying Dream School Sleep Forget Worry Sun Figures Wall Fine Drink Shadow Bars Trails Let It Go Bad Dream

Author:Catherynne M. Valente

“Whatever you choose, your choice will mean there are two new worlds. And perhaps sometimes, on the edge of sleep, we will see the shadow of the other world. There will be no unhappy memories.”

World Mean Two Sometimes Choices Memories Sleep Shadow Edges Unhappy New World You Choose Other Worlds

Author:Terry Pratchett

“For a while they stood there, like men on the edge of a sleep where nightmare lurks, holding it off, though they know that they can only come to morning through the shadows.”

Knows Men Sleep Morning Shadow Edges Nightmare

Book:The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings

Source: The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings

“Even now, sometimes on street corners... when I meet someone, I see your shadow. I'm sure that even now, you're still wearing that man's cologne... so you can sleep, even alone.”

Men Stills Sometimes Sleep Streets Shadow Corners Street Corners Cologne

Author:Ai Yazawa

“Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.”

Thinking Heart Spiritual Nature Sleep Meditation Moon Letting Go Shadow Casts

Author:Rumi

“I have slept with you all night long while the dark earth spins with the living and the dead, and on waking suddenly in the midst of the shadow my arm encircled your waist. Neither night nor sleep could separate us.”

Long Earth Night Dark Sleep Arms Shadow Midst Waking All Night

Book:Love Poems

Source: Love Poems

“Behind every American soldier, dozens of their countrymen tonight sleep soundly — and hundreds more in their shadow abroad will wake up alive and safe.”

Sleep Behinds Alive Safe Shadow Wake Up Soldier Tonight Dozen Countrymen American Soldier

Author:Victor Davis Hanson

“Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only shadow inside? No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreaming— its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of vast silence”

Mind Heart Dream Eye Running Sleep Silence Gone Listening My Heart Shadow Empty Wide Awake Dry Signals Rims Wide Awake Beehives

Book:Antonio Machado

Source: Antonio Machado

“You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and things there are in a man's past that have stopped moving. The living people we've lost in the crypts of time sleep so soundly side by side with the dead that the same darkness envelops them all. As we grow older, we no longer know whom to awaken, the living or the dead.”

People Knows Men Way Past Moving Lost Grows Sides Loses Sleep Darkness Shadow Frightening

Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“Where the shadow of the bridge fell I could see down for a long way, but not as far as the bottom. When you leave a leaf in water a long time after awhile the tissue will be gone and the delicate fibres waving slow as the motion of sleep. They don't touch one another, no matter how knotted up they once were, no matter how close they lay once to the bones.”

Way Long Matter Water Sleep Gone Long Time Shadow Lays Bottom Bones Bridges Delicate Leafs Long Way Tissues

Book:The Sound and the Fury: And As I Lay Dying

Source: The Sound and the Fury: And As I Lay Dying

“In El-harím, there lived a man, a man with yellow eyes. To me, he said, "Beware the whispers, for they whisper lies. Do not wrestle with the demons of the dark, Else upon your mind they'll place a mark; Do not listen to the shadows of the deep, Else they haunt you even when you sleep.”

Men Mind Said Eye Lying Dark Sleep Shadow Mark Demon Yellow

Author:Christopher Paolini

“The only people out at this hour were ones who couldn't sleep,those haunted by one thing or another:love thwarted, love lost, love thrown away. They were the sort of people who didn't want to be noticed, who wanted to slip through shadows, be alone with their despair.”

People Want Wanted Lost Hours Sleep One Thing Despair Shadow Thrown Slips Lost Love

Author:Alice Hoffman

“All it has experienced, tasted, suffered: The course of years, generations of animals, Oppression, recovery, friendship of sun and - Wind Will pour forth each day in the song Of its rustling foliage, in the friendly Gesture of its gently swaying crown, In the delicate sweet scent of resinous Sap moistening the sleep-glued buds, And the eternal game of lights and Shadows it plays with itself, content.”

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