Joseph Conrad Quotes About Sleep

Quotes about: Sleep

• Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.

  Joseph Conrad

  Life, Tombstone, Sleep

  Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies, Gene M. Moore (2007). “The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

• You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.

  Joseph Conrad

  Sleep, Literature, Waking

  Joseph Conrad (2012). “Heart of Darkness: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.53, Penguin

• Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: "Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please" This also became Conrad's epitaph.

  Joseph Conrad

  Taken, Sleep, Sea

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