Sleep Quotes - Page 3

You talk; I'll sleep. feel free to make up my side of the conversation in case you get bored. I recommend throwing in the occasional 'fuck you' on my behalf, just to keep things true to life.

Douglas Hulick

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death. The higher the interest rate and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

J.R.R. Tolkien

I long for sleep, and for soft English rain. But they do not come.

Michael Cox

THERE'S NO REASON TO SLEEPCURLED UP AND BENT.IT'S NOT COMFORTABLE,IT'S NOT GOOD FOR YOU, AND ITDOESN'T PROTECT YOU FROM DANGER.IF YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT AN ATTACKYOU SHOULD STAY AWAKEOR SLEEP LIGHTLY WITHLIMBS UNFURLED FOR ACTION.

Jenny Holzer

I spread eggshells all over my room, so anyone who tries to get close when I sleep will know what they're walking on

Josh Stern

Hail, happiness, then, and after happiness, hail not those dreams which bloat the sharp image as spotted mirrors do the face in a country-inn parlour; dreams which splinter the whole and tear us asunder and wound us and split us apart in the night when we would sleep; but sleep, sleep, so deep that all shapes are ground to dust of infinite softness, water of dimness inscrutable, and there, folded, shrouded, like a mummy, like a moth, prone let us lie on the sand at the bottom of sleep.

Virginia Woolf

When we are asleep, so it seems to me, we sleep surrounded by all the years. I have imagined, sleeping, that I heard the footsteps of the long-dead; I have held conversations with them, and with the blank-faced people I was yet to meet, conversations that seemed of unbearable poignancy, though when I woke I could remember only a few words, and those not words that possessed, waking, any emotional significance to me. It is said that this is because content is divorced from emotion in sleep, as though the sleeping mind read two books at once, one of tears and lust and laughter, the other words and phrases picked up from old newspapers, from grimy handbills blowing along the street and conversations overheard in barbershops and bars, and the banalities of radio. I think rather that we have forgotten on waking what the words have meant to us, or have not learned as yet what they will mean. But the worst thing is to wake and remember that we have been talking to the dead, having never thought to hear that voice again, having never any expectation of hearing it again before we ourselves are gone.

Gene Wolfe

There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that the greater are impostors, it would be cowardice to disturb the repose of the little ones. Let them sleep, then, in the arms of their nurses, the priests, and both be forgotten together.

Thomas Paine

... sleep deprivation is an illegal torture method outlawed by the Geneva Convention and international courts, but most of us do it to ourselves.

Ryan Hurd

I have never had any difficulty falling asleep. No matter what problems I have. However terrible things are, I can sleep. It's like killing yourself and taking the easy way out. It's waking up that I dread. Every morning, I go through the five stages of death. I wake up in denial that I have to go to work. Then I get angry. Then I bargain with God, or myself, and try to call in sick. Then I feel guilty and go into remission, until finally I accept that the day will suck and I get up.

Ernesto Quiñonez

If I couldn't sleep, I could read.

Gail Carson Levine

Stupid. Why do people want to pretendthat death is sleep? It isn’t. It isn’t

Veronica Roth

Like when people say they slept like a baby. Do they mean they slept well? Or do they mean they woke up every ten minutes, screaming?

Lee Child

That gap between half sleep and half awakening has always been occupied by nostalgia.

Shreya Gupta

It's four A.M.! Who goes to bed this early!?

Jeff Hirsch

He imagined that he was looking for her and couldn't find her anywhere, that the two of them were lost on a vast ship, sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another, the woman is sleeping only a few yards away from him and he cannot reach her, yet it's so very easy to go from port to starboard.

José Saramago

To sleep and being able to. RareTo sleep and deserve it. Rarer.

Saleem Sharma

Sleeping is terrifying.When you close your eyes and surrender your consciousness to the void, you lose yourself—voluntarily—and you're trustingly assuming you'll find yourself back out of the labyrinth again.Usually you do.But sometimes you don't.It's that uncertainty, more than anything, which kills me. That I might not wake up, and wouldn't know it.That I could be dead, dreaming I'm alive.

Nenia Campbell

He tried to think of death as he had done now and then, but that tired him and he dozed off. When he awoke an hour later, he felt fresh and calm as though he had slept for days.

Hermann Hesse

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

Homer

I am so tired; all I want to do is sleep. I want to sleep all the day, from dawn until twilight that every evening comes a little earlier and a little more drearily. In the daytime, all I can think about is sleeping. But in the night I do is try to stay awake.

Philippa Gregory

Forget it, Jonathan, and go back to sleep. And before you go to sleep, pray that no well-meaning god ever makes you immortal.

Peter S Beagle

How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.

Benjamin Franklin

Some like to sleep. Some like to read late into the night without catching a wink. In a world of dreamers, both are essential.

Amanda Joy Bruns

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.

Joan Klempner

Be honest with yourself; set the alarm for the time the Real You will get up, not the Ambitious You, because the Ambitious You doesn't really exist.

Laurie Notaro

I’m still afraid to sleep—too many ghosts peering creeping condemning.

Kiersten White

The body can be a marvel of resiliency, a cactus when it comes to sleep - capable of surviving on mere drops.

Karen Russell

To be precise, there are three gems for healthy life: sufficient workouts, healthy food, and enough sleep.

Girdhar Joshi

Flying in his dreams was an exhilarating, breathtaking experience, sometimes literally, that tended to leave reality wanting, like riding a roller coaster compared to mowing the lawn.

Sol Luckman

When I am awake, I sleep, but when I dream I come to life.

Anna Jae

He kissed her forehead and drifted into an uneasy sleep, listening to the soft snoring of the creature on his chest, one he loved slightly more than he had come to fear.

Thomm Quackenbush

They should be going to sleep, but good company is the enemy of sleep.

David Levithan

Well, I suggest you sleep on it," said Aunt Zelda sensibly. "Things always look better in the morning.

Angie Sage

Go where people sleep and see if they are safe

Jenny Holzer

Slowly I swam up from the bottom of a black sleep.

Sylvia Plath

The best sleep imaginable is sleeping in your dreams

Dean Cavanagh

Seven a.m. on the first day of summer vacation was, to her mind, a dangerous time to be awake. Even God had to be sleeping in.

Victoria Kahler

Sleep: the breakfast of champions

Dean Cavanagh

Sometimes I wake up and think... 'I was asleep.

Rebecca Hurley

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

James MacDonald

For me, sleep equaled death. How was closing your eyes and losing consciousness any different from death? What separated temporary loss of consciousness from permanent obliteration?

Lena Dunham

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

Charles Bukowski

You can’t imagine the white-hot fury someone who can’t sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.

Karen Joy Fowler

Are you always so cynical?' said Angelica.'No,' said Katherine. 'Sometimes I'm asleep.

Sam Byers

You drool in your sleep- Annabeth Chase

Rick Riordan

We both fell asleep wrapped up together with the wolves still lullaby-ing us in the background

April Genevieve Tucholke

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

Henry Miller

We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course of our existence.

Marcel Proust

I’m awake and I can’t sleep. The more I’m awake, the more I see, and the harder to sleep.

Donna Lynn Hope

For some it is harder to wake up to the truth of life than it is to fall into the sleep of death

Dean Cavanagh

In a while, her eyes felt leaden and she felt sleep overpower her, even as she fought to keep her eyes open. In vain, I tried to churn within her, a little nugget of fear, trying desperately to warn her of impending danger.

Deepti Menon

I spent many a charming evening talking and playing with Albertine, but none so sweet as when I was watching her sleep.

Marcel Proust

It's just I'd rather sleep through the days so I'll be awake for the nights, when the boys are out.

Kerry Cohen

Normally, it takes people about 60 to 90 minutes to reach REM sleep, so they wouldn’t enter this stage during a 20 minute nap. People with narcolepsy often enter REM sleep soon after falling asleep. If a person enters REM sleep in two or more of the five naps in eight minutes or less during the study, it’s highly suggestive of narcolepsy.

Julie Flygare

James was sixteen, Cam seventeen, perhaps. She had looked round for someone who was not there, for Mrs. Ramsay, presumably. But there was only kind Mrs. Beckwith turning over her sketches under the lamp. Then, being tired, her mind still rising and falling with the sea, the taste and smell that places have after long absence possessing her, the candles wavering in her eyes, she had lost herself and gone under. It was a wonderful night, starlit; the waves sounded as they went upstairs; the moon surprised them, enormous, pale, as they passed the staircase window. She had slept at once.

Virginia Woolf

At home in bed that first night I had patchy, mundane dreams about normal things. It would be nobler and less uncomfortable to write that I tossed sleeplessly.

Darin Strauss

For there is nothing quite so terror-inducing as the loss of sleep. It creates phantoms and doubts, causes one to questions one's own abilities and judgement, and, over time, dismantles, from within, the body.

Charlie Huston

Emily woke to shadows and their voices. They looked different today, because the entire world hurt. The numbness had worn off sometime between sleep and awake, and she was seeing red. The shadows on the walls were not shadows at all, but red blobs consisting of teeth and claws. Her house reeked of pain.The whole world was fucking bleeding.

Allie Burke

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