“The boy may wrestle, when Night--working Fancy steals him to the arms Of nymph oft wish'd awake, and, 'mid the rage Of the soft tumult, ev'ry turgid cell Spontaneous disembogues its lucid store, Bland and of azure tinct.” MayNightWishBoysArmsStoresRageStealingCellsAwakeFancySpontaneousBlandTumultNymphsAzure Author:John Armstrong
“Sleeping we imagine what awake we wish; D ogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.” DreamWishSleepImagineSeaRiversFishesBonesBoatAwakeLakesFishingFisherman Author:Theocritus
“One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a person and turn him into an automaton, the surest method is not physical torture, in the strict sense, but simply to keep him awake, i.e., in an existential relation to life without intermission.” IfsPersonsHas BeensImportantAgeTurnsWishDiscoveryRelationMethodHorribleAwakeTortureExistentialStrictIntermission Author:W. H. Auden
“People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.” PeopleIfsMeanDoeWishSleepDangerousAwakeFlatteryCautionNumbEmployingDraught Author:Friedrich Nietzsche