Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker Quotes

“There is no standard by which time can be measured, but the succession of our thoughts, and the changes that take place in the external world.”
― Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker

“No one knows the powers that are latent in his constitution. Called forth by imminent dangers, our efforts frequently exceed our most sanguine belief.”
― Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker

“Death was a sweet relief for my present miseries, and I vehemently longed for its arrival.”
― Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker

“How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.”
― Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker

“Passage into new forms, overleaping the bars of time and space, reversal of the laws of inanimate intelligent existence, had been mine to perform and to witness.”
― Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker

“The sleek locks, neat apparel, pacific guise, sobriety and gentleness of aspect by which I was customarily distinguished, would in vain be sought in the apparition which would now present itself before them. My legs, neck, and bosom were bare, and their native hue was exchanged for the livid marks of bruises and scarifications. A horrid scar upon my cheek, and my uncombed locks; hollow eyes, made ghastly by abstinence and cold . . . would prepossess them with the notion of a maniac or ruffian.”
― Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker

“This scene is adapted to my temper. Its mountainous asperities supply me with images of desolation and seclusion, and its headlong streams lull me into temporary forgetfulness of mankind.”
― Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker