Sleep, where in the waste is the wisdom?
James Joyce, Finnegans Wake.
“He is cured by faith who is sick of fate.”
“For that (the rapt one warns) is what papyr is meed of, made of, hides and hints and misses in prints.”
“Anna was, Livia is, Plurabelle's to be. Northmen's thing made southfolk's place but howmulty plurators made eachone in per-son? Latin me that, my trinity scholard, out of eure sanscreed intooure er...”
“Never back a woman you defend, never get quit of a friend on whom you depend, never make face to a foe till hes rife and never get stuck to another mans pfife.”
“Here's lumbos. Where misties swaddlum, where misches lodge none, where mystries pour kind on, O sleepy! So be yet!”
“And youll miss me more as the narrowing weeks wing by. Someday duly, oneday truly, twosday newly, till whensday.”
“...the souls of none of them were dead, but only sleeping; now and then they would waken, and these were cruel times.”
“If you can't turn off your thoughts, who cares how soft your pillow is?"- David King”
“But lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direct...”
“She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil inside ourselves,so we're able to forgive them.”
“I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.”
“The pause .... where wisdom has space to appear”