Quotes of: Sleepless-nights Keyword

The sleepless hum of the city was abidingly in his ears, and the lamps that dotted the misty pavements stared at him blinkingly all along the route. The tall black buildings rose up grimly into the night; the faces that flitted to and fro along the p...

Tales from a Gas-Lit Graveyard

In those hours when the night is still dark and cold, we see Alokananda waking up to the faint sound of stifled sobs. The sheets besides her are creaseless, sleepless. She gets up silently, her body: blank, a patchwork of frugal impulses. She gathers...

Kunal Sen

Well finish your story anyway." Where was I?" The bubonic plague. The bulldozer was stalled by corpses." Oh, yes. Anyway, one sleepless night I stayed up with Father while he worked. It was all we could do to find a live patient to treat. In bed afte...

Kurt Vonnegut

What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood. He knew he was close to completing and so that's what he was doing: getting me to describe things to him, so they'd really sink in,...

Never Let Me Go

And then she fell into his arms. It was what he’d dreamed of on sleepless nights, holding her, feeling the press of her breasts to his chest, the flare of her hips in his hands. He forgot all about where they were, why they were alone together. He ...

Redemption of the Duke

The glamorous splender of a mystical moon.. Natures sleepless wonders.

Life

Poems can get sleepless too and become the loneliest thing in the universe.

Sanober Khan

If the reason of your sleeplessness is competition, then you will make a successful businessman.

Amit Kalantri

sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

Letters to Milena

In those years I did not care to enjoy sex, only to have it. That is what seeing Alex again on Fifth Avenue brought back to me - a youth of fascinated, passionless copulation. There they are, figures in a discoloured blur, young men and not so young,...

Sleepless Nights

Warriors of light always have a certain gleam in their eyes. They are of this world, they are part of the lives of others, and they set out on their journey with no saddlebags and no sandals. They are often cowardly. They do not always make the right...

Paulo Coelho

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

Charles Kuralt

Champagne morning, sleepless grin, setting off and settling in. Today feels good.

Alex Gaskarth

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

Emil Cioran

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

The Dunciad

Eli was right. The measure of success isn't what you gain. It's what you pay to get it.

Dreams of the Sleepless

Trust = telling someone about the things that make you sleepless.

I Can't Tell You

I'm rather a practical person. I just get on and focus on what I have to do. I just don't get sleepless or suffer from the jitters.

Anna Maxwell Martin

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's h...

The Complete Poems

What are you thinking?" he asks. I know Gage hates it when I cry - he is completely undone by the sight of tears - so I blink hard against the sting. "I'm thinking how thankful I am for everything," I say, "even the bad stuff. Every sleepless night, ...

Sugar Daddy

You may be safe, but I am free.' Take advantage of the freedom that comes with your youth. Inhale life, exhale fire, and embrace the late, sleepless nights, because that's when the magic happens- when everyone else is asleep and you're awake thinking...

The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change