Thoughts on { Sleep | Homer / Fernando Pessoa / Franz Kafka
Edouard Vuillard, In Bed, 1891
“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”
Homer, The Odyssey
“I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming.
No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does
not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake.
In dreams I have achieved everything.”
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet, 1982
“But sleep? On a night like this? What an idea! Just think of how many thoughts a blanket
smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm. ”
Franz Kafka, Description of a Struggle, 1912
