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Sleeper Quotes

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“Arlene and I have to get a divorce. She thinks I'm a pervert because I drank our water bed.”
Woody Allen

Hermann Broch
“That year it seemed as if the summer were never coming to an end: days of shimmering golden stillness followed each other in equal radiance, as if by their sweetness and peace they wanted to make the war, now in its bloodiest period, appear doubly insensate. As the sun dipped behind the chain of mountain peaks, as the sky paled into tenderer blue, as the road stretched away more peacefully and all life folded in upon itself like the breathing of a sleeper, that stillness grew more and more accessible and acceptable to the human soul. Surely that Sabbath peace lay over the whole of the German fatherland, and in a sudden uprush of yearning the Major thought of his wife and children whom he saw walking over the sunset fields. "I wish this were all over and done with," and Esch could not find any word of comfort for him. Hopeless and dreary this life seemed to both of them, its sole meagre return a walk in the evening landscape which they were both contemplating. It's like a reprieve, thought Esch. And so they went on in silence.”
Hermann Broch, The Sleepwalkers

Mladen Đorđević
“When the banner of countless colours spreads on the wind, and the Riders of the Desert storm arise, then shall the Sleeper awake beneath his sand shroud and bring the Judgement to the world.”
Mladen Đorđević, Svetioničar - Pritajeno zlo

“No sleeper whom you have wakened,
None downcast whom you have roused,
None whose shut mouth you have opened, None ignorant whom you gave knowledge. None foolish whom you have taught.”
Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“It's not about the how much power under the hood, it's about how you drive behind the wheels that's capable of...”
Manning Maurice McCutchen, JR

Mehmet Murat ildan
“There are only two types of people: Sleepers and awake! And there are only two types of sleepers: Those who sleep happily in deep sleep and those who are tired of sleeping in the dark, who want to wake up now! And the purpose of those who are awake is to shed light on those who want to wake up!”
Mehmet Murat ildan