“Those who wanted to sleep, not from fatigue but because of the nostalgia of dreams…”

“Nostalgia is an illness
for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia.”

Zeena Schreck (1963) Tantric Buddhist/Sethian

“Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.”

Virginia Woolf book Jacob's Room

“The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic

“When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays

“My time I divide as follows: the one half I sleep; the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep; that would be a shame, because to sleep is the height of genius.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”

Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist

“I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

“If you still want to keep dreaming, then go back to sleep. But if you want to succeed then wake up and act.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Maybe what we take to be real is just a dream and the dream is the real reality of life. Who dreams while we sleep?”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author