Quote by Thomas Wolfe

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united

Summary

This quote emphasizes the power and beauty of sleep. It suggests that during sleep, we transcend our physical existence and connect with the depths of darkness and night. In this state, we become a curious amalgamation of vulnerability and mystery, as we confront the inevitable experience of death without the fear or understanding of it. Sleep is portrayed as a unifying force that allows us to strip away our externalities and experience a profound sense of tranquility and serenity.

Topics

Alone

By Thomas Wolfe

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehe

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Albert Einstein

World Mystery

I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ign

I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.

Orson Scott Card

Time Weakness Thetimes Wrongs

Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess

Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.

Age

I have a woman's instinct and it's always a good one.

I have a woman's instinct and it's always a good one.

Princess of Wales Diana

Intuition

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fear

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

Fear

Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the f

Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.

Fear

Truth is the trial of itself And needs no other touch, And p

Truth is the trial of itself And needs no other touch, And purer than the purest gold, Refine it ne'er so much.

Truth Trials

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electri

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

Work

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of i

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Mind

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

Margaret Sanger

Business

Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of lookin

Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

Science

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Ni

Men & Women