Famous quotes containing the word sleepless:
“Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)
“Now lapdogs give themselves the rousing shake,
And sleepless lovers, just at twelve, awake:”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“O Sleepless as the river under thee,
Vaulting the sea, the prairies dreaming sod,
Unto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend
As of the curveship lend a myth to God.”
—Hart Crane (1899–1932)