Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.
—Doris Lessing, 1994Quotes
I’ve dreamed enough to have a drink.
—François Rabelais, 1546In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
—Anaïs Nin, 1933Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.
—Dorothy M. Richardson, 1923I curse the night, yet doth from day me hide.
—William Drummond, 1616The twilight is the crack between the worlds.
—Carlos Castaneda, 1968At night comes counsel to the wise.
—Menander, c. 300 BCI have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.
—Sarah Williams, 1868Some nights are like honey—and some like wine—and some like wormwood.
—L.M. Montgomery, 1927Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.
Each night’s new terror drives away the terror of the night before.
—Sophocles, c. 450 BCThose who are awake have a world that is one and common, but each of those who are asleep turns aside into his own particular world.
—Heraclitus, c. 500 BCDarkness endows the small and ordinary ones among mankind with poetical power.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874