“Tired, but not the kind of tired that sleep fixes.”
“Like a child, the earth's going to sleep,or so the story goes. But I'm not tired, it says.And the mother says, You may not be tired but I'm tired”
“whenever Treadway was emotionally tired, he went to bed even earlier than usual, using sleep like a kind of temporary, convenient death.”
“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.”
“Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.”
“Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.”