Torpor Quotes

“When torpor and hesitancy are crippling us, only love has the power to breathe life into the dead brushwood of our emotions and bring back essence to existence. ("Knowing someone was waiting")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“When the leaden haze of our lives starts cracking and tearing, and the forlornness and torpor in our minds are smoldering into ashes, we can softly hear the sounds of a new dawn and learn to pick up the magic of the words that make us understood among our neighbors.( "Life was a misunderstanding")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Better, perhaps, to dress like a whore around the clock and thus achieve a fully integrated personality.”
― Chris Kraus, Torpor

“How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“She felt all right. Her heart was like a drum hanging from piano wire in her chest, slowly, slowly beaten. Her hands and feet were numb, not with cold but with a sultry torpor. Thoughts moved with a tranquil lethargy, her brain a leisurely machine imbedded in swaths of woolly packing.

She felt all right.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend and Other Stories

“Eu estive sepultado, mumificado, conservado nas catacumbas da linguagem; a esperar o sopro de graça que me devolvesse à vida.”
― Filipe Russo, Caro Jovem Adulto

“Se eu não inventar a alegria eu nunca vou sorrir.”
― Filipe Russo, Caro Jovem Adulto

“Eu queria dormir, dormir, dormir e nunca mais acordar, acordar, a cor da...”
― Filipe Russo, Caro Jovem Adulto

“Durante tanto tempo adormecido, me acumulando no fundo do rio, neste leito de morte eu desperto do torpor.”
― Filipe Russo, Caro Jovem Adulto

“Todo dia sopro e sopro nos teus lábios tentando uma respiração boca-a-boca que te traga à vida, mas nada te acordas, bela adormecida, estancada estais no torpor da matéria bruta.”
― Filipe Russo, Caro Jovem Adulto

“foggy hangover....fending off sloth and torpor....the battle within!!!!!”
― Mukesh Kwatra

“Jerome described her as a waitress-translator, and Sylvie wondered why the women always have these hyphenated jobs? The men are all philosophers, artists, filmmakers."

Kraus, Chris. Torpor (S.182)”
― Chris Kraus, Torpor