Logo
Quote by Gaston Bachelard
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the so

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. – Gaston Bachelard

Other quotes by Gaston Bachelard

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. – Gaston Bachelard

Category:
Poetry
Author
Gaston Bachelard
Read Quote

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid. – Gaston Bachelard

Category:
Ideas
Author
Gaston Bachelard
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Sleep
category

Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds. – JoJo Jensen, Dirt Farmer Wisdom, 2002

Category:
Sleep

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night. – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal

Category:
Sleep

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself. – E. M. Cioran

Category:
Sleep

Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations. – Djuna Barnes

Category:
Sleep

Random Quotes

I once sang Summer Nights, from Grease, at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, whos a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny – sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar – while I got stuck playing Sandy. – Hugh Jackman

Category:
cool

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car. – Lawrence Summers

Category:
car

That arc of light, born of the shower and colored by the sun, which spans the heavens! – Jean Charles Prince #rainbow

Category:
Rainbows

Monday is the key day of the week. – Scottish Proverb

Category:
Time