Oscar Wilde:

"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

T. S. Eliot:

"If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?"

"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."

Helena invoking sleep in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM:

“Steal me awhile from mine own company.”