Famous quotes containing the words sleep, terror and/or disorder:
“Sweet is the sleep of laborers, whether they eat little or much; but the surfeit of the rich will not let them sleep.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Ecclesiastes 5:12.
“Now days are dragon-ridden, the nightmare
Rides upon sleep: a drunken soldiery
Can leave the mother, murdered at her door,
To crawl in her own blood, and go scot-free;
The night can sweat with terror as before
We pieced our thoughts into philosophy....”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“I have come back
but disorder is not what it was.
I have lost the trick of it!
The innocence of it!”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
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