A Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

that since Cecilia’s suicide, the Lisbon’s could hardly wait for the night to forget themselves in sleep

Jeffrey Eugenides

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Could Forget Hardly Night Since Sleep Suicide Themselves Wait

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Jeffrey Eugenides
American - Novelist
Born: April 13, 1960

I don't sleep. I wait. I sleep in cars and on couches. I sleep when I can, but when I can't sleep, I just don't, so I figure there's a higher calling keeping me on point that night.

Charlie Sheen

I always got very excited about the Masters as a kid. I could hardly wait until the Wednesday when you'd get the BBC's preview. And I'd then be glued to the screen until Sunday night.

Rory McIlroy

I'm a bat. All my greatest, creative ideas come at night. So I hardly ever sleep.

Jessica White

Survivors told me that sleep was a great escape from the nightmare that was Jonestown. I also longed for bedtime each night at Escuela Caribe; sleep allowed me to forget where I was for a few hours.

Julia Scheeres

I think there's a big market in North America [with travelers] going to Lisbon and connecting over Lisbon.

David Neeleman

Ever since that night I've been on the road Travelling and trying to forget That awful night I lost all my friends I see their faces yet.

Phil Coulter

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wilbur Wright

Name your nation-state, or tribe or party - you have to rationalize what you're doing. You have to go to sleep at night. Does Dick Cheney sleep at night? Does he sleep like a baby?

Martin Donovan

Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,Dreaming o'er the joys of night.Sleep, sleep: in thy sleepLittle sorrows sit and weep.

William Blake

Up until about a hundred years ago, the world was dark at night. You got to have a real night so you could sleep.

Linda Ronstadt

They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked higher than the pyramids; they had killed themselves over the failure to find a love none of us could ever be. In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her heart. She could not forget that this was the last night she would ever see the one for whom she had left her home and family, had given up her beautiful voice, and had day by day endured unending torment, of which he knew nothing at all. An eternal night awaited her.

Hans Christian Andersen

I sleep well. In my entire legal career, I have not lost much sleep at night worrying about things, because I've done what I could do in the time I had, and I've got some rest.

Steven Pacey

One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night.

E. Nesbit

I can't sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.