# Quote — Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity

> We sleep when we fall. We only sleep when we can’t move anymore. That’s juvenile. But it means everything. It’s the illusion of progress. Staying awake isn’t progress. The illusion is enough.

- Author: [Dave Eggers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers.md)
- Book: [You Shall Know Our Velocity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers/you-shall-know-our-velocity.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dave_Eggers#You_Shall_Know_Our_Velocity!_(2002)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers/you-shall-know-our-velocity/we-sleep-when

## More from this book

> What did we want? We want the world smaller and bigger and just the same but advancing. We don’t know what we want.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers/you-shall-know-our-velocity/what-did-we-want.md)

> I was feeling everything too much. Everything was pulling at my eyes.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers/you-shall-know-our-velocity/i-was-feeling.md)

> Hand took a breath and opened his palms, as if accepting the gift of rain. "YOU SHALL KNOW OUR VELOCITY!" he bellowed into the cold exhausted city.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers/you-shall-know-our-velocity/hand-took-a-breath.md)