Sleep Quotes

On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth w...

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...

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...

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...

How can non-existence get sick of itself?Everytime you wake up, you appear again out of nowhere. And...

Death'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...

The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; n...

But one only woke people if one knew what one wanted to say to them. And she wanted to say not one t...

James was sixteen, Cam seventeen, perhaps. She had looked round for someone who was not there, for M...

All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of partin...

In this very special self-hypnotic state there can be no question of getting out of touch with on[e]...

He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those...

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...

To 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...

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...

With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea wh...

He doesn't mind if he dies... indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welco...

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment an...

Our 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...

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, [Cloquet thoug...

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...

IVREVEILLEWake: the silver dusk returningUp the beach of darkness brims,And the ship of sunrise burn...

Westward on the high-hilled plainsWhere for me the world began, Still, I think, in newer veinsFrets ...

Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and...

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side ...

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the...

Wisdom comes through suffering.Trouble, with its memories of pain,Drips in our hearts as we try to s...

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

In all well-organised brains, the predominating idea—and there always is one—is sure to be the last ...

Bedtime is fraught with fear and disappointment. When it is just me alone with my restless body and ...

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as w...

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to b...

She sleeps. And now she wakes each day a little less. And, each day, takes less and less nourishment...

Like honey is the sleep of the just.

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain...

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. ...

And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep...

By helping us keep the world in perspective, sleep gives us a chance to refocus on the essence of wh...

When we shrink our whole reality down to pending projects, when our life becomes our endless to-do l...

With regard to sleep and waking, we must consider what they are: whether they are peculiar to soul o...

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to ...

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the ...

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death. The higher the inte...

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little yout...

I breathe slowly and deeply. I make my eyes still under eyelids, I make my mind still, and soon, Sle...

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a ...

When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'J...

Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and ...

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the mo...

How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poult...

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for ce...

When I finally lie down, I find sleep elusive. The same thoughts that trouble me during the day are ...

The cashier had long since left for home. By now she was probably bustling by an unmade bed that was...

Groping blindly in the darkness, he sank between the white mounds of cool feathers and slept as he f...

I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to...

I sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thin...

Much more plausible is the computer-based explanation that dreams are a spillover from the unconscio...

However, in part for reasons of organizationalconvenience, modern societies are structured as if all...

This looks very much as if the integration of the day's experience into our memory, the forging of n...

There is another connection between infancy and dreams: both are followed by amnesia. When we emerge...

Thus, an inhibition center developed below what in humans is the temporal lobe, to turn off much of ...

What functions do dreams serve today? One view, published in a reputable scientific paper, holds tha...

There is some evidence that dreaming is necessary. When people or other mammals are deprived of REM ...

The sleeping style of each organism is exquisitelyadapted to the ecology of the animal. It is concei...

He could sleep in the ruins of cities lost for centuries.

Aaron was wearing a T-shirt that was practically transparent with washing and sweatpants with a hole...

In the old days, before I was married, or knew a lot of women, I would just pull down all the shades...

I decided to stay in bed until noon. Maybe by then half the world would be dead and it would only be...

Gradually, he fell into that deep tranquil sleep which ease from recent suffering alone imparts; tha...

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sl...

Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at t...

For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part...

Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.

And if I do fall asleep, Marla has to keep track of Tyler. Where he goes. What he does. So maybe dur...