Infants need the most sleep, and, what is more, get it. Stunning them with a soft, padded hammer is the best way to insure their g...etting it at the right times.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agree...d that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act. We surrender to sleep, but in the way that the master entrusts himself to the slave who serves him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, yo...u were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You're looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can eat, and my... sleep is so near waking that it's hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That daily the night falls; that over stresses and torments, cares and sorrows the blessing of sleep unfolds, stilling and quenchi...ng them; that every anew this draught of refreshment and lethe is offered to our parching lips, ever after the battle this mildness laves our shaking limbs, that from it, purified from sweat and dust and blood, strengthened, renewed, rejuvenated, almost innocent once more, almost with pristine courage and zeal we may go forth again--these I hold to be the benignest, the most moving of all the great facts of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When sleep enters the body like smoke and man journeys into the abyss... like an extinguished star that is lighted elsewhere, then all quarrel ceases, overworked nag that has tossed the nightmare grip of its rider.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »