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  • All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part of them.

    Past   Echoes   Brain  
    Daphne Du Maurier, Daphne Du Maurier (Dame) (1942). “Frenchman's creek”, Sourcebooks Landmark
  • Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

    "Fictional character: Duke Leto Atreides". "Dune", www.imdb.com. 1984.
  • I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul...Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

    Dream   Fighting   Cities  
  • Twenty-five years now and I still love to watch my wife sleep. I'm fascinated by the way the unconscious self (the deeper self) rises when consciousness falls away and often expresses itself in the face of a sleeper.

    Fall   Sleep   Self  
  • I've dreamed a lot, but i'm not a very good sleeper.

  • Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. "Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet!"

    "Introduction" to "New World or No World" by Frank Herbert, 1970.
  • Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake the sleepers. ‘But it won’t - that’s the devil,’ he added in the same undertone.

    Stress   Thinking   Devil  
    Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1697, Delphi Classics
  • The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing on chamber windows, and twinkling through blind and curtain before sleepers’ eyes, shed light even into dreams, and chased away the shadows of the night.

    Dream   Morning   Eye  
    Charles Dickens (2017). “The Complete Novels of Charles Dickens: 20 Illustrated Classics in One Volume: Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield…”, p.2072, e-artnow
  • I go to bed at 2 a.m. and get up at 7 a.m. - I've never been a sleeper. But I definitely get sick every month-and-a-half.

    Sick   Bed   Half  
  • The most painful thing in life is to wake up from a dream and find no way out. Dreamers are fortunate people. If no way out can be seen, the important thing is not to awaken the sleepers.

  • I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.

    Long   Design   Politics  
    William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.142, Cambridge University Press
  • Unless you have a very good reason, never wake up anybody or anything! Let the sleeper sleep in peace.

    Peace   Sleep   Wake Up  
  • Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.

    Dog   Memories   Grief  
  • the sleeper must awaken.

    "Fictional character: Duke Leto Atreides". "Dune", www.imdb.com. 1984.
  • You might be a redneck if your grandmother can correctly execute the sleeper hold.

  • There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books. They move, sometimes, within the pages like sleepers turning over between two dreams. Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.

    Dream   Reading   Moving  
    Rainer Maria Rilke (1930). “The Journal of My Other Self”
  • For in the night, unseen, a single warrior, In sombre harness mailed, Dreaded of man, and surnamed the Destroyer, The rampart wall has scaled. He passed into the chamber of the sleeper, The dark and silent room, And as he entered, darker grew, and deeper, The silence and the gloom.

    Wall   Warrior   Dark  
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (185?). “The Poetical Works of Henry W. Longfellow”, p.471
  • I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

    Wind   Sky   Breathing  
    Wuthering Heights ch. 34 (1847)
  • You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.

    Song: Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
  • I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men.

    Wall   Men   Light  
    George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.817, Bantam
  • What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?

    Sea   Land   Long  
  • Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.

  • There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was also no one more ferocious when anyone disturbed the sensuality of her thinking she was still asleep when she no longer was.

    Thinking   Hands   Body  
  • When the Dark comes rising six shall turn it back; Three from the circle, three from the track; Wood, bronze, iron; Water, fire, stone; Five will return and one go alone. Iron for the birthday; bronze carried long; Wood from the burning; stone out of song; Fire in the candle ring; water from the thaw; Six signs the circle and the grail gone before. Fire on the mountain shall find the harp of gold Played to wake the sleepers, oldest of old. Power from the Green Witch, lost beneath the sea. All shall find the Light at last, silver on the tree.

    Song   Dark   Sea  
    Susan Cooper (2007). “The Dark Is Rising: Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.224, Simon and Schuster
  • wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

    Slumber   Earth   Quiet  
    Wuthering Heights ch. 34 (1847)
  • It was apparent that all of mankind is actually motivated by inner love, but has simply become unaware; most people live their lives as though they're sleepers unawakened to the perception of who they really are.

  • A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

    Dream   Cities   Wish  
    Charles Dickens (2015). “British Classics: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)”, p.126, The Planet
  • When you're on a sleeper at night, take your pocketbook and put it in a sock under your pillow. That way, the next morning you won't forget your pocketbook cause you'll be looking for your sock.

    Travel   Morning   Night  
  • Oft in the silence of the night, When the lonely moon rides high, When wintry winds are whistling, And we hear the owl's shrill cry, In the quiet, dusky chamber, By the flickering firelight, Rising up between two sleepers, Comes a spirit all in white.

    Louisa May Alcott (2001). “My Little Friend: And Other Stories”
  • I am a sleeper. When you wake up at 4:30 in the morning to do a workout, you're sleepy at 8 in the evening. By 10 o'clock at the latest, I'm in bed.

    Workout   Morning   Bed  
    "Michelle Obama’s tips for being happy, healthy". Interview with Liz Vaccariello, www.today.com. October 5, 2009.
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