Sleep Terror Disorder

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

    Meanwhile I, deserted, was lamenting a little to myself your long delays in foreign loves, until sleep with its pleasing wings compelled me, fallen.
    Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)

    Sixty years ago they smiled
    At lover, husband, first-born child.
    Smiles are for youth. For old age come
    Death’s terror and delirium.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind’s disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.
    Gérard De Nerval (1808–1855)