“Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.”
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
Source: Utopia of Usurers (1917), p. 31
“There is a time for many words and there is a time also for sleep.”
XI. 379 (tr. A. T. Murray).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Source: The Odyssey
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Borís Pasternak (1890–1960) Russian writer
Poem "Night" (Ночь), from When the Weather Clears (Kogda razgulyaetsya, 1957) — as quoted in One Less Hope: Essays on Twentieth-century Russian Poets (2006) by Constantin V. Ponomareff, p. 130
“Time and death sleep side by side.”
Variant: "Time and death sleep side by side," said the Dog. "Both are in Astrael's Domain."
Source: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Abhorsen (2003), p. 64.
“In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing
About the dark times.”
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director
In den finsteren Zeiten
Wird da auch gesungen werden?
Da wird auch gesungen werden.
Von den finsteren Zeiten.
"Motto to the 'Svendborg Poems' " [Motto der 'Svendborger Gedichte] (1939), trans. John Willett in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 320
Poems, 1913-1956 (1976)
Shirley Jackson book We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
The Rambler, No. 78 (Sat 15 Dec 1750). http://www.yalejohnson.com/frontend/sda_viewer?n=106855 See also The Yale Book of Quotations, Samuel Johnson 2 (2006)
