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Quotes About Sleep

Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone ugly was in bed by now.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Sleep is a little slice of death.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Sólo Dios sabe cuántas veces me he dormido con el deseo y la esperanza de no despertar jamás. Y al día siguiente abro los ojos, vuelvo a ver la luz del sol y siento de nuevo el peso de mi existencia.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
ak?am, gün do?u?unu izlemeyi tasarl?yorum ve sabah yataktan kalkam?yorum; gün boyunca ay ?????n? bekliyorum, sonra da ak?am, odamdan ç?kam?yorum. ne u?runa uyand???m?, ne u?runa uykuya yatt???m? bilmiyorum.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am but an ordinary Man. The Times alone have destined me to Fame–and even these have not been able to give me, much. . . . Yet some great Events, some cutting Expressions, some mean Hypocrisies, have at Times, thrown this Assemblage of Sloth, Sleep, and littleness into Rage a little like a Lion.
~ John Adams
Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.
~ John Anthony Ciardi
The fact that emotional feeling can be experienced during sleep is a reminder that not all processes having an emotional feeling phase originate in the environment.
~ John Bowlby
My thoughts hovered over all varieties of mortal edible, and finally settled on a porterhouse steak and a quart of bitter with a welsh rabbit to follow. In longing hopelessly for these dainties I fell asleep.
~ John Buchan
Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.
~ John Bunyan
So I awoke, and behold it was a dream.
~ John Bunyan
Sleep's what we need. It produces an emptiness in us into which sooner or later energies flow.
~ John Cage
it is important to mark this circumstance, that at the very   time when the men of Sodom, having dismissed all fear of God, were   indulging themselves, and were promising themselves impunity, however   they might sin, God was taking counsel to destroy them, and was moved,   by the tumultuous cry of their iniquities, to descend to earth, while   they were buried in profound sleep.
~ John Calvin
I do not understand the capricious lewdness of a sleeping mind.
~ John Cheever
If the heart is vigilant (Song 5.2), then sleep is nothing for the body; this is like a person who is almost snoring and, when he hears robbers breaking in, does everything possible to escape them. Thus, if we are able to understand, we shall see that we are exactly like this.
~ John Chryssavgis
I long for scenes where man hath never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator, God, And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, Untroubling and untroubled where I lie The grass below—above the vaulted sky.
~ John Clare
Although it was cold out, he opened the window slightly because the room smelled of sleep. The action dislodged something red and black from the frame
~ John Connolly
he attributed his incredible stamina and strength to (1) the power of God, (2) traveling 4,000 to 5,000 miles yearly, (3) the ability to sleep whenever and wherever he wanted, (4) getting up at a set hour between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m., and (5) constant preaching, particularly in the morning.
~ John D. Woodbridge
But think that weAre but turn'd aside to sleep.
~ John Donne
Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.
~ John Donne
Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.
~ John Donne
But think that we Are but turn'd aside to sleep; They who one another keep Alive, ne'er parted be.
~ John Donne
Night came, but unattended with repose. Alone she came, no sleep their eyes to close. Alone and black she came; no friendly stars arose.
~ John Dryden
you can live a whole life time never being awake.
~ Dan Millman
Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald