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But just as your body needs sleep, your soul needs time to rest in God. To learn more about Him. To ...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can...

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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, t...

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D. H. LawrenceSons and Lovers

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry...

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Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up to my pores during the day, and at night - in ...

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He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhap...

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Shergahn and friend lay like poleaxed steers, and the Daranfelian's greasy hair was thick with potat...

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Sleep is a kind of peace, and I have not yet earned peace.

Then perhaps you shouldn't sleep. The imagination has terrifying power.

I am amazed that there are still nights when I sleep well.

Now, sprawled comfortably in his motel bed, Anson Sharp enjoyed the sleep of the amoral, which is fa...

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Dean KoontzShadow Fires

For several days, I slept. Whether this was a necessary part of physical recovery, or a stubborn ret...

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During his time with the French army, years before, one of the sergeants had explained to the younge...

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You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dream...

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The night seemed long. Wilbur's stomach was empty and his mind was full. And when your stomach is em...

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Every night, before he turned in, he would write in the book. He wrote about things he had done, thi...

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E. B. WhiteThe Trumpet of the Swan

Tonight I heard Louis's horn. My father heard it, too. The wind was right, and I could hear the note...

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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.

Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot g...

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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other...

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The paradoxical situation with a vast number of people today is that they are half asleep when awake...

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We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep...

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And in the night you realize, when you wake out of a dream, overcome and captivated by the enchantme...

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Erich Maria RemarqueAll Quiet on the Western Front

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

Nick drank the coffee, the coffee according to Hopkins. The coffee was bitter. Nick laughed. It made...

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I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.

I wish I could wear 10 dresses to my wedding. It's so sad that you put it in storage and then never ...

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I had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. P...

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I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming,...

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possib...

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Fran LebowitzMetropolitan Life/Social Studies

sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless manthe most guilty.

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Franz KafkaLetters to Milena

I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.

In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep

No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.

Sleep knocks on my eyes: they grow heavy. Sleep touches my mouth: it stays open.Truly, he comes to m...

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There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand acro...

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Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the nigh...

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But I was awake, sitting by the window looking down at the trailer and Mr. Zoltan's truck. I could n...

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Gene WolfeAmerican Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

Whatever we may say, all of us suffer from disturbed sleep at times.Some in truth hardly sleep, thou...

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Gene WolfeThe Claw of the Conciliator

When we are asleep, so it seems to me, we sleep surrounded by all the years. I have imagined, sleepi...

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People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity. 'Fo...

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One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.

It was not a bed with curtains, but a bed with doors like shutters. This may not seem like a nice wa...

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It might be asked, 'How much time shall I allow myself for rest?' The answer is that no rule of univ...

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We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who ...

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Sleep had ceased to be a mere physical necessity; it was something voluptuous, and debauch more than...

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George OrwellDown and Out in Paris and London & the Road to Wigan Pier

Only the innocent know the peace of untroubled sleep. Confess sins, and you will sleep like a newbor...

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George R. R. MartinA Dance with Dragons

Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the other who would drag us all into the eternal ...

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Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a l...

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TO WHOM LIFE IS AN EXPERIENCE TO BE CARRIED AS FAR AS POSSIBLE... I have not meant to express my tho...

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Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

Le spectacle est le mauvais rêve de la société moderne enchaînée, qui n'exprime finalement que son d...

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O sleep! ridiculous mystery which makes faces appear so grotesque, you are the revealer of human ugl...

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He buried his nose in his pillow and went to sleep—to dream of anything rather than getting on in th...

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You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel—a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my...

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May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug ...

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Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

Asta Sollilja slept on, her head in the corner, mouth open, chin up, and head back, with one hand un...

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I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.

I willed myself to stay awake, but the rain was so soft and the room was so warm and his voice was s...

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She tried to think about what lay ahead, but soon gave up. 'Words turn into stone,' Nimit had told h...

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He calmed himself, shut his eyes, and fell asleep. The rear light of consciousness, like the last ex...

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Haruki MurakamiColorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go t...

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Haruki MurakamiHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

A beautiful nap this afternoon that put velvet between my vertebrae.

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Henry MillerTropic of Cancer

I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. Wh...

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Lull me to sleep, ye winds, whose fitful soundSeems from some faint Aeolian harp-string caught;Seal ...

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Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down...

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Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.

He tried to think of death as he had done now and then, but that tired him and he dozed off. When he...

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They slept profoundly, desperately, greedily, as though for the last time, as though they had been c...

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Hermann HesseNarcissus and Goldmund

Ich werde stehen und warten.Ich werde müde werden.Ich werde nicht einschlafen.Ich werde sterben.

Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.

In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not de...

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...an irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the slee...

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HomerThe Odyssey

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

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HomerThe Odyssey

Economics is not a science; it is a quasi-religion: part superstition, part mystique, part sentiment...

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Then all was quiet save only for the low voices of those that talked together, ... , and saving, als...

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Howard PyleThe Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Bright morning comes; the bloody-fingered dawn with zealous light sets seas of air ablaze and bends ...

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When I get home I take some sleeping pills and within what seemed like half an hour of unconsciousne...

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Hush my dear lie still and slumber! Holy angels guard they bed! Heavenly blessings without number ...

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Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush ...

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J. M. CoetzeeWaiting for the Barbarians

Sleepiness seemed to be creeping out of the ground and up their legs, and falling softly out of the ...

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At length the Lady Galadriel released them from her eyes, and she smiled. ‘Do not let your hearts be...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring

Hobbits always so polite, yes! O nice hobbits! Smeagol brings them up secret ways that nobody else c...

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Hullo!” said Merry. “So that’s what is bothering you? Now, Pippin my lad, don’t forget Gildor’s sayi...

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The sound of his sleep, the snores and sighs and small noices, is company.

The attorney general called and asked me if I was willing to be interviewed for FBI director. And th...

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Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expec...

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Sleep, where in the waste is the wisdom?

Here's lumbos. Where misties swaddlum, where misches lodge none, where mystries pour kind on, O slee...

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One of the most frequent sins of omission is the failure to get adequate rest.

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James MacDonaldChrist-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, ...

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Before he could lose courage he flung himself back and slammed his sleep-inducer to full theta.

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James Tiptree, JrHer Smoke Rose Up Forever

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.