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I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.

— Wislawa Szymborska

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.

— Fran Drescher

I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.

— Patrick Swayze

I wrote the song 'Angels Standing By'... to try and soothe myself - rock myself to sleep, basically - because I was so scared and stressed.

— Jewel

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

— Christopher Hitchens

I'm the lightest sleeper. I can hear a pin drop. It's been worse since I was ill. I think your inner ear is always half open, listening out for the faintest danger sign.

— Sam Taylor-Wood

I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.

— Rufus Wainwright

After two kids, I hit the pillow and go straight to sleep.

— Cate Blanchett

✗Opposing Perspectives

One night, I lay awake for hours, just terrified. When the dawn finally came up - the comfortable blue sky, the familiar world returning - I could think of no other way to express my relief than through poetry. I made a decision there and then that it was what I wanted to do. Every time I pulled a wishbone, it was what I asked for.

— Alice Oswald

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.

— Mary Stewart

I've had an angel on my shoulder all my life.

— Barbara Hale