Slumber Quotes - Page 2
wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
Wuthering Heights ch. 34 (1847)
Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “The Essential Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.195
'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 5, l. 22
Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc
Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”
John Milton (1831). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.76
The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.
"Rodogune". Book by Pierre Corneille, 1644.
William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.60, Routledge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1831). “The poetical works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats”, p.467
Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
Iris Murdoch (1977). “Under the Net”, p.166, Penguin
George Herbert (1853). “The poetical works of George Herbert [and The synagogue, by C. Harvey.]. With life, critical diss., and notes, by G. Gilfillan”, p.308
Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality.
George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.38
"Don Carlos" by Friedrich Schiller, Act I, sc. i, 1787.
Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.64, Library of America