Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes About Sleep

Quotes about: Sleep

• We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Dream, Book, Sleep

• Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Sleep, Entrepreneur, Waking

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)”, p.1647, Delphi Classics

• The breath of peace was fanning her glorious brow, her head was bowed a very little forward, and a tress, escaping from its bonds, fell by the side of her pure white temple, and close to her just opened lips; it hung there motionless! no breath disturbed its repose! She slept as an angel might sleep, having accomplished the mission of her God.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Sleep, Angel, Escaping

• We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Dream, Sleep, Waking

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2005). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.124, Prestwick House Inc

• Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practise an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Sleep, Self, Deception

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2012). “Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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