Christian Dior
Fashion Designer
"Deep in every heart slumbers a dream"
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Slumber
44 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Edgar Allan Poe
Poet, Writer
"Even in the grave, all is not lost."
Sarah Helen Whitman
Poet
"Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground, With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant."
Lord Byron
Poet, Novelist
"Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!"
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"Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand."
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"Pray that no sleep may seize upon your eyes, nor slumber upon your eyelids until your thoughts have seriously, calmly, and unchangably fixed."
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"Tis the voice of the sluggard I heard him complain,You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again."
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"Sometime I’ll lay down my wrath, As I lay my body down Between the ache of breath and breath, Golden slumber in the bone."
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"Wander at will, Day after day,-- Wander away, Wandering still-- Soul that canst soar! Body may slumber: Body shall cumber Soul-flight no more."
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"It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self."
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"All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom."
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"A thought once awakened does not again slumber."
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"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."
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"wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth."
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"There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them - isn’t this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?"
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"O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night."
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"It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often, a vicarious happiness. I haven't existed. I've been someone else. I've lived without thinking."
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"Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live."
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"Image of rugged cliffs And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on."
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"Philosophy, beginning in wonder, as Plato and Aristotle said, is able to fancy everything different from what it is. It sees the familiar as if it were strange, and the strange as if it were familiar. It can take things up and lay them down again. It rouses us from our native dogmatic slumber and breaks up our caked prejudices."
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"One slumber finds another."
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"O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?"
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"Slumber party with Dracula, all things considerd why not?"
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