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Quotes About Sleep

I've slept through a mild earthquake in Italy. And also a very tight hockey game where people were screaming their heads off.
~ Carl Kasell
Eating and drinking late at night tells the liver that it needs to keep working. Therefore we sleep poorly and wake up sluggish.
~ Sakyong Mipham
I am told that sleep is a rehearsal for death. It is waking that kills us.
~ Sally Gardner
Exhausted and feverishly hot, I would burrow into bed, my body aching. I dreamt strange dreams and punched in my sleep.
~ Sam Sheridan
If I could sleep I might make love. I'd go into the woods. My eyes would see the sky, the earth. I'd run, run, they wouldn't catch me.
~ Samuel Beckett
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,Brother to Death, in silent darkness born.
~ Samuel Daniel
Declamation roar'd, while Passion slept.
~ Samuel Johnson
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
~ Samuel Johnson
And so to bed.
~ Samuel Pepys
Ma reggel álmomból hirtelen felriadva, könyökömmel úgy arcon és nyakon találtam ütni a feleségemet, hogy a fájdalomra felébredt, amit nagyon sajnáltam; aztán ismét elaludtam.
~ Samuel Pepys
Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What if you slept And what if In your sleep You dreamed And what if In your dream You went to heaven And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower And what if When you awoke You had that flower in you hand Ah, what then?
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
BE A FOOLISHNESS OF LIFE, HOW WE FORGET OUR HURTS IN sleep—like they unmade there, taken back into the time before. We wake in stupid innocence. Then all pains flash to memory, and every cruelty be fresh.
~ Sandra Newman
And suddenly you can't sleep, because your heart trusts your vision more than you.
~ Sanita Belgrave
Scientists discovered these "forgetting" neurons in 2019, which helps us further understand the importance of sleep—and the merits of forgetting. It's a beautiful paradox: In order to remember, we have to forget to some degree.
~ Sanjay Gupta
The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
~ Sappho
The moon has set And the Pleiades. Midnight. I lie in bed alone.
~ Sappho
When they were tired Night rained her thick dark sleep upon their eyes.
~ Sappho
May you sleep on your tender girlfriend's breasts
~ Sappho
Kuu laskenut ja Seulaset On keskiyö, minun aikani on ohi Nukun yksin
~ Sappho
O dream on black wings you stray here when sleep sweet god, I am in agony to split all its power for I expect not to share. Nothing of the blessed gods I would rather not be like this with trinkets but may I have them all
~ Sappho
When it came to napping, Winston Churchill insisted that there should be "no halfway measures." "Take off your clothes," he said, "and get into bed.
~ Sara C. Mednick
No one ever does anything out of charity," Anna went on. "Every choice we make benefits ourselves directly or indirectly. Even if it looks like a sacrifice, the alternative would be unbearable in some way. If I hadn't helped I wouldn't sleep well, and I need my sleep.
~ Sara Donati