Sleep Terror Disorder

Famous quotes containing the words sleep, terror and/or disorder:

    “Bunched upside down, they sleep in air.
    Their sharp ears, their sharp teeth, their quick sharp faces
    Are dull and slow and mild.
    All the bright day, as the mother sleeps,
    She folds her wings about her sleeping child.”
    —Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)

    “Let us pray that the great historic tragedy of our time may not have been enacted without instructing our whole beloved country through terror and pity; and may fulfillment verify in the end those expectations which kindle the bards of Progress and Humanity.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “I have come back
    but disorder is not what it was.
    I have lost the trick of it!
    The innocence of it!”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)