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Quotes About Drowsiness

I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness.
~ Jay London
Maybe you took two pills and forgot and took two more, and forgot again and took two more, and were so dopy you kept right on until you had thirty or forty of them in you.
~ Ray Bradbury
But presently, huddled beneath the blankets, the child would be soothed by a warm sense of safety, and her nerves would relax, while her body grew limp with the drowsy softness of bed. Then suddently a big and most comforting yawn, and another, and another, until darkness and Collins and tall clocks that menaced, and Stephen herself, were all blended and merged into something quite friendly, a harmonious whole, neither fearful or doubting-the blessed illusion we call sleep.
~ Radclyffe Hall
The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I'm tired.
~ Susan Orlean
It says on the back of the Nyquil box, 'May cause drowsiness.' It should say, 'Don't make any plans, OK? Kiss your family and friends good-bye.'
~ Denis Leary
The rain beat softly upon the shingles, inviting them to drowsiness and sleep. But they dared not yield. The rain was over; and the sun was turning the glistening world into a palace of gems.
~ Kate Chopin
We] were just leaning back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing--half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could.
~ Ken Kesey
May cause drowsiness.' - the most beautiful words in the English language. Once it was 'do you have a t-shirt I can borrow?' Now it's 'may cause drowsiness.
~ David Nicholls
As he sat at his desk in his comfortable office armchair, he allowed his body to sink into a creeping state of drowsiness, and for a few moments enjoyed the sensation of dozing off. It was a sensation akin to numbness, as if his hands and feet were melting away.
~ Yasutaka Tsutsui
He glanced drowsily at Laura and Mitchell eating their strawberries in the sunshine and found himself about to fall asleep. It was an odd sensation, 'to find himself' about to fall into sleep. As if he could find himself anywhere at any time.
~ Deborah Levy
The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.
~ Mary Boykin Chesnut
Too much sleep is bad for your health, Matilda. She slipped a freshly made ball of butter into a stone crock. It must be such a grippe, a sleeping sickness.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I think we're delirious from lack of sleep.
~ Jenny Han
I feel so tired, so tired . . . worn out, heavy. I've got indigestion and my tummy's all blown out. I feel sleepy all the time.
~ Eugene Ionesco
Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene with an oblivious embrace. For awhile these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE physically possible for Erin to be awake at one in the morning. The medication she had taken after dinner—a handful of pills in a multitude of shapes and colors—should have put her to sleep a long time ago. Normally they did. But tonight she was still wide awake.
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
It's better to crash into a nap than to nap into a crash.
~ Anonymous
The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
~ Anonymous
The scariest thing I've ever had about a long drive is almost falling asleep a couple of times. Those moments where you maybe should have pulled over and taken a nap, like, a couple of hours ago.
~ Ron Livingston
He slid back into his previous position. 'Getting up so early,' he thought, 'makes one entirely stupid. People must have their sleep.
~ Franz Kafka
Isso de acordar cedo", pensou, "deixa a pessoa completamente idiotizada. O homem precisa do seu sono.
~ Franz Kafka
I fall asleep in theaters, so I try to stay away from them.
~ Joe Maddon
beaver testicles, rubbed on the forehead or dried and dissolved in water, made an effective antidote to drowsiness and idiocy.
~ Edwin G. Burrows
When the workers, whose only pleasure was sleeping, crawled into their beds, they slumbered like cattle.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa