„sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless manthe most guilty.“

— Franz Kafka

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„Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.“
— Margaret Mead
„Most men are not wicked… They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.“
— Franz Kafka
„Lay your sleeping head, my loveHuman on my faithless arm;Time and fevers burn awayIndividual beauty fromThoughtful children, and the graveProves the child ephemeral;But in my arms till break of dayLet the living creature lie:Mortal, guilty, but to meThe entirely beautiful.“
— W. H. Auden
„Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.“
— Harper Lee
„I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out in the open.“
— Rainer Maria Rilke
„Rest. Heal. Sleep. I shall most likely kill you on the morrow.”“You? A Princess Bride quote?” I croaked.“What is that?” she asked.“
— Jim Butcher