Quotes About Sleep

Soft moss a downy pillow makes, and green leaves spread a tent, Where Faerie fold may rest and sleep until their night is spent. The bluebird sings a lullaby, the firefly gives a light, The twinkling stars are candles bright, Sleep, Faeries all, Good Night.

Kate refused to go to bed - for if she slept, she would have to wake up, she said, and that she could not bear to do-to face afresh the grief she was as yet so little used to.

We should leave our love-making till the dead of night,' she thought. 'And bury it secretly in sleep.

La señora Palfrey durmió plácidamente y toda la noche, con los labios ligeramente estirados, como si estuviese a punto de sonreír.

Mrs. Post had lain quietly down and switched off the bedside lamp. Her head was like a magic lantern into which slides were thrust noisily, one after the other.

If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other; and what a mercy it is that once in every twenty-four hours we are too utterly weary to go on being unkind.

In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead

They danced to beat back the fear. They danced after hearing someone else they knew had died in a foreign land or was reported missing in action. They danced to be so exhausted they could sleep. They danced to shut off the voices, the questions, the uncertainty.

Take a nap in a fireplace and you'll sleep like a log.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience, unless they are still up.

I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.I woke—and found that life was duty.

she fell asleep listening to the call of the river as it rushed to the sea.

All life is a dream, my children, but you are not the dreamer; the Dreamer rests on a bed of down plucked from the breast of the swan of eternity. He turns in His sleep sometimes, and a world comes to

Oh, for the pure oblivion of sleep! In those vast waters I would sink me deep Beyond where both desire and dream lie dead, And passion and despair forget to weep.

What's my job, Chief?" Everyone looked at Matt and grinned but Matt frowned instead. "Forget it, Katie." He scowled. "No girls are allowed in the Adventure Club," he said firmly. The little voice answered. "I'm not a girl. I'm a sister." "No, Katie, what you are is a pain. Now be quiet and go to sleep.

If we could sleep twenty-four hours a day, we would soon return to the primordial slime, the beatitude of that perfect torpor before Genesis-the dream of every consciousness sick of itself.

În somn uiÈ›i drama vieÈ›ii tale, uiÈ›i complicaÈ›iile È™i obsesiile aÈ™a încât fiecare deÈ™teptare este un început nou de via??, este o speran?? nou?. ViaÈ›a p?streaz? astfel o discontinuitate pl?cut? care d? impresia unei continue regener?ri a unei renaÈ™teri permanente.

After each night we are emptier: our mysteries and our griefs have leaked away into our dreams. Thus sleep's labor not only diminishes the power of our thought, but even that of our secrets.

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher the poet's equal there.

Ce idee la NuÅ£u s?-ÅŸi cumpere televizor! Asta e iadul. Alt sfat: nu citi în pat. Eu m-am obiÅŸnuit s? fac o plimbare în fiecare sear?, cu un ceas înainte de culcare. In sfîrÅŸit: ia cît mai puÅ£ine somnifere. Eu am abuzat de ele la tinereÅ£e ÅŸi ?sta a fost dezastrul vieÅ£ii mele.

know peace only when my ambitions sleep. Once they waken, anxiety repossesses me.

Why can I never go back to bed? Who's is the voice ringing in my head? Where is the sense in these desperate dreams? Why should I wake when I'm half past dead?

I only sleep with people I love, which is why I have insomnia.

Tanto valeva che non si fossero risvegliati dal loro sonno secolare – mormorò il signor Holker con un lungo sospiro, prendendo posto nello scompartimento del carrozzone.