“Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.”

—  Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows

Source: Knight of Shadows

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration." by Roger Zelazny?
Roger Zelazny photo
Roger Zelazny112
American speculative fiction writer 1937–1995

Related quotes

Viktor E. Frankl photo

“A life of short duration… could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.”

Viktor E. Frankl (1905–1997) Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor

Georg Büchner photo

“Do you know, Valerio, that even the least among all humans is so great that life is far too short to love him?”

Georg Büchner Leonce and Lena

Act III
Leonce and Lena (1838)

George Orwell photo

“Ah, the poverty, the shortness the disappointment of human joy! For in reality car en realite, what is the duration of the supreme moment of love? It is nothing, an instant, a second perhaps. A second of ecstasy, and after that- dust, ashes, nothingness.”

George Orwell book Down and Out in Paris and London

Source: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 2, Charlie

Prevale photo

“Among the most beautiful pleasures in life, love knows no rivals.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Tra i piaceri più belli della vita, l'amore non conosce rivali.
Source: prevale.net

Herbert Read photo

“A short poem is often called a lyric, which originally meant a poem short enough to be set to music and sung for a moment's pleasure.”

Herbert Read (1893–1968) English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art

Form in Modern Poetry(1932)

Cecelia Ahern photo

“This is my one and only life, and it is a great and terrible and short and endless thing, and none of us come out of it alive”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Variant: Life... It's a great and terrible and short and endless thing. None of us come out of it alive.

“It was a great pleasure to make a movie again. Nothing is better; perhaps revolution, but there you have to succeed and be right, dangers which never attach themselves to making movies, and dreaming.”

Abraham Polonsky (1910–1999) American politician

as quoted in The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, David Thomson, page 689, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2003, ISBN 0-375-41128-3.

Joseph Conrad photo

“For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart in the short moment of each human effort.”

Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) Polish-British writer

Notes on Life and Letters (1921), Part II,, "Tradition"

Clive Barker photo

“Life is short,
and pleasures few,
and holed the ship,
and drowned the crew,
But O! But O!
How very blue
the sea is!”

Clive Barker book Abarat

Abarat, Book One

“He fought despairingly to go deeper into the blackness of a sleep, any sleep, even the sleep of death or some form of non-existence, but even with the loss of consciousness he dreamt he was awake, lying on the bed trying desperately to sleep. If he could find some way to prove that time had passed, no matter how short that time, he could tell himself that he had slept and perhaps then, just perhaps, he would feel rested.”

Hubert Selby Jr. book The Room

The Room (1971)

Related topics