Adrienne Rich Quotes

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

To sleep perchance to dream

For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.

I'm usually alone or asleep, at home.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

In sleep, we leave behind the sensory stimulation of the outside world.

I love sleep; it's my favorite.

It is not night when I do see your face, Therefore I think I am not in the night; Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company, For you in my respect are all the world: Then how can it be said I am alone, When all the world is here to look on me?

There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

If I didn't wake up I'd still be sleeping

In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her whole song of sorrow just for me. I helped her put me to sleep, so to speak, and succeeded pretty well... I wasn't entirely alone... It's not possible to sleep alone.

Face to face, just you and me, with no rules. Just like you, I get lonely too.

I love to sleep. Do you? Isn't it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious.

When you turn out the light, I've got to hand it to me. Looks like it's you and me again tonight Rosie.

More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if i wasn't alone.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

Sleep is the best meditation.

How we need another soul to cling to.

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

If you have a friend, things are better than if you didn't have a friend.

If he could sleep on it. He would make his bed with white sheets And disappear into the white, Like a man diving, If he could be certain That the light Would not keep him awake, The light that reaches To the bottom.

You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself. Even if it's people you love.