Sleep Quotes
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...
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The cashier had long since left for home. By now she was probably bustling by an unmade bed that was...
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Groping blindly in the darkness, he sank between the white mounds of cool feathers and slept as he f...
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I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to...
Show MoreI sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thin...
Show MoreMuch more plausible is the computer-based explanation that dreams are a spillover from the unconscio...
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However, in part for reasons of organizationalconvenience, modern societies are structured as if all...
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This looks very much as if the integration of the day's experience into our memory, the forging of n...
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There is another connection between infancy and dreams: both are followed by amnesia. When we emerge...
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Thus, an inhibition center developed below what in humans is the temporal lobe, to turn off much of ...
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What functions do dreams serve today? One view, published in a reputable scientific paper, holds tha...
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There is some evidence that dreaming is necessary. When people or other mammals are deprived of REM ...
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The sleeping style of each organism is exquisitelyadapted to the ecology of the animal. It is concei...
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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...
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In the old days, before I was married, or knew a lot of women, I would just pull down all the shades...
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I decided to stay in bed until noon. Maybe by then half the world would be dead and it would only be...
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Gradually, he fell into that deep tranquil sleep which ease from recent suffering alone imparts; tha...
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But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sl...
Show MoreWaking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at t...
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For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part...
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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...
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Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover ...
Show MoreThey say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake...
Show MoreLastly he looked at the face so caved and drawn among the folds of funeral cloth, the yellowed moust...
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Its hard to stay up. Its been a long long dayAnd you've got the sandman at your door. But hang on, l...
Show MoreBut just as your body needs sleep, your soul needs time to rest in God. To learn more about Him. To ...
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The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can...
Show MoreSleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, t...
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry...
Show MoreEvery part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up to my pores during the day, and at night - in ...
Show MoreHe 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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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...
Show MoreThe 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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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...
Show MoreA 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...
Show MoreWe all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep...
Show MoreAnd in the night you realize, when you wake out of a dream, overcome and captivated by the enchantme...
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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 ...
Show MoreI had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. P...
Show MoreI’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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sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless manthe most guilty.

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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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the nigh...
Show MoreBut I was awake, sitting by the window looking down at the trailer and Mr. Zoltan's truck. I could n...
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Whatever we may say, all of us suffer from disturbed sleep at times.Some in truth hardly sleep, thou...
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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...
Show MoreIt might be asked, 'How much time shall I allow myself for rest?' The answer is that no rule of univ...
Show MoreWe sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who ...
Show MoreSleep had ceased to be a mere physical necessity; it was something voluptuous, and debauch more than...
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Only the innocent know the peace of untroubled sleep. Confess sins, and you will sleep like a newbor...
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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...
Show MoreScience, 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...
Show MoreO 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 ...
Show MoreYea, 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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Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go t...
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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.

I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. Wh...
Show MoreLull me to sleep, ye winds, whose fitful soundSeems from some faint Aeolian harp-string caught;Seal ...
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We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down...
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