Iris Murdoch Quotes

When The Sun Was Set I Might Perhaps Go To Sleep. I Never Let Myself Sleep During The Day. Daytime Sleep Is A Cursed Slumber From Which One Wakes In Despair. The Sun Will Not Tolerate It. If He Can He Will Pry Under Your Eyelids And Prise Them Apart; And If You Hang Black Curtains At Your Windows He Will Lay Siege To Your Room Until It Is So Stifling That At Last You Stagger With Staring Eyes To The Window And Tear Back The Curtains To See That Most Terrible Of Sights, The Broad Daylight Outside A Room Where You Have Been Sleeping.

Related Authors

• Alice Greczyn
• Carol M. Roberts
• Ed McCabe
• Eddy Grant
• Jax Hart
• Kaiylah Muhammad
• Kelly Bryson
• Larry Stockstill
• LaToya London
• Lori Stephens
• Paul Griffin
• Shane Koyczan

Related Topics

• Quotes About West Vs East

  One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which — Kathryn Bigelow

• Quotes About Catapults

  The energy of gratitude catapults us into the most profound experiences imaginable. — James F. Twyman

• Quotes About Thinking Too Much About Someone

  The biggest mistake, in general, I've made, is to put too much of a weighting on someone's talent and not enough on their personality. And I've made that mistake several — Elon Musk

• Quotes About Believing Your Own Lies

  When you're believing lies about yourself and God, you're aligning yourself with Satan - with his thoughts and his emotions - and you are increasing his reign over your heart. — Jeanne Nigro

• Famous Grateful Quotes

  The storm was resting. It didn't want to be, but it was. It had spent a fortnight understudying a famous anticyclone over the Circle Sea, turning up every day, hanging — Terry Pratchett