Sleep Quotes
I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself wa...
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Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and ...
Show MoreAfter sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous pl...
Show MoreIf men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contente...
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Silence: the motor drive of nothingness underneath all rhythm - threatened to last forever, a spell ...
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Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more. All the wealthy, unhappy people...
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If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchest...
Show MoreThe woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
My favorite cure for boredom is sleep. It's very easy to get to sleep when bored and very hard to ge...
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His life was focused on each single day. For him each night meant a void, a grave, extinction. The c...
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Sometimes sleep gets to be a serious and complete thing. You stop going to sleep in order that you m...
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We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everythin...
Show MoreOf all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts bracket...
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Failure to take note of the fact that the character of twentieth-century humanity differs from that ...
Show MoreIf a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You mus...
Show MoreA poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape t...
Show MoreWhat you do in your dreams is never your choice. But it made me happy anyway.
I have very vivid dreams - almost always action-adventure. I'm often on the run. I've always had dre...
Show MoreThe noise of the world is so terrible that we can endure it only by being coated with sleep.

Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible h...
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I liked comedy as a kid. When I was a kid, I'd go to sleep to, like, Bill Cosby albums every night. ...
Show MoreThe alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Phil...
Show MoreOf all the things which make up our Short-Time lives, sleep is surely the best.

The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch.

The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real w...
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When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few m...
Show MoreI buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the poi...
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Slowly I swam up from the bottom of a black sleep.

I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.

I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no m...
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Come, sleep and death; you promise nothing, you hold everything.
Granny Weatherwax had a primal snore. It had never been tamed. No one had ever had to sleep next to ...
Show MoreThen he kept to the back streets, and found a place that did a very reasonable double sausage, egg, ...
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Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should.

There are the people of the day, and the creatures of the night. And it's important to remember that...
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I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going whe...
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I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

He slept like an animal, well and lightly, faced in the opposite direction from that of a man; for a...
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Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
She had not heard him enter, and hardly realized his presence there. She was yawning, and he saw the...
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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Discussions should always be held just before going to bed, your rear protected by sleep. How painfu...
Show MoreFrom plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves...
Show MoreThere now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have alrea...
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In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and ...
Show MoreDo we choose sleep? Hell no and bullshit - we fall. We give ourselves over to possibility, to whim a...
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At what point,” he asked, “does one decide on rafters and a rope? Answer: no points to be had. There...
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…he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered. He wanted her to be a v...
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I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. ...
Show MoreOn their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth w...
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Sleep without the fragrance of her hair next to him was impossible.
I'm afraid we shall waste an awful lot of time.""Don't worry," answered Snufkin, "we shall have wond...
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The only time I have problems is when I sleep.
Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel un...
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The sleeper turns his back on everyone.
Orr slept. He dreamed. There was no rub.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

Stupid. Why do people want to pretendthat death is sleep? It isn’t. It isn’t
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven.

When your day has been teeming with different sensations, when you have things on your mind, you can...
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How can non-existence get sick of itself?Everytime you wake up, you appear again out of nowhere. And...
Show MoreDeath's brother, sleep.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

Hail, happiness, then, and after happiness, hail not those dreams which bloat the sharp image as spo...
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The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; n...
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But one only woke people if one knew what one wanted to say to them. And she wanted to say not one t...
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James was sixteen, Cam seventeen, perhaps. She had looked round for someone who was not there, for M...
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All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of partin...
Show MoreIn this very special self-hypnotic state there can be no question of getting out of touch with on[e]...
Show MoreHe was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those...
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Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.
The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense.
Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brillia...
Show MoreTo all to each a fair goodnight And pleasing dreams and slumbers light.
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
However interesting and lovely my days were, I could get from one day to the next only by passing th...
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What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
Sleep is where we touch what is better left unexamined. There, the whole of life is bundled up, dwin...
Show MoreWith lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea wh...
Show MoreHe doesn't mind if he dies... indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welco...
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True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment an...
Show MoreOur birth is but a sleep and a forgetting...

When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot s...
Show MoreIt seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, [Cloquet thoug...
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When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
Lie you easy, dream you light,And sleep you fast for aye;And luckier may you find the nightThan ever...
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IVREVEILLEWake: the silver dusk returningUp the beach of darkness brims,And the ship of sunrise burn...
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Westward on the high-hilled plainsWhere for me the world began, Still, I think, in newer veinsFrets ...
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Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and...
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I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side ...
Show MoreHe who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the...
Show MoreWisdom comes through suffering.Trouble, with its memories of pain,Drips in our hearts as we try to s...
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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep