Quotes About Sleep

I am jealous of my sleeping lover and cover his induced unconsciousness.

Do you still snore as loudly as you used to?" "I don't know," said Branwise, taking the question too seriously. "When I'm asleep I can't hear myself.

Do you still snore as loudly as you used to?" "I don't know," said Branwise, taking the question too seriously. "When I'm asleep I cain't hear myself.

You aren't the same person after a good night's sleep as you are after a sleepless night. But which person is you?

Don't freak out, I'm getting into the bed," he said.

In the January that I turned thirty-five, sleep became a foreign and hostile country. I had never been more than what one might call a refugee in the country of sleep;

I dreamed about her long, snaky body and about her deep, drawling voice. The voice was the worst. I'd wake up at the ninth or tenth hour of the night, my heart banging in my chest, and I'd lie there holding my breath in case she called my name again.

Go to sleep and have really dirty dreams." "I think the term you're looking for is sweet dreams." "No. Those are boring. Dirty ones are much better.

I can't sleep at night unless I've rescued at least ten trees and five maidens in distress during the course of my working day.

When Ascyltes, loaded down with all these woes, was falling asleep, the maid he had rejected and insulted rubbed the whole of his face with a generous quantity of ash. He felt nothing, and she went on to paint graffiti-style penises on his shoulders and sides.

What do we want from life? We wish the responsibilities, opportunities, and realities of the new day to be more delightful and enticing than the escape of sleep.

The fitful sleeping makes the hours pass slowly; it seems to me the night has many nights in it?has years of nights!?through which, as if through drifts of smoke, I am compelled to stumble.

I sleep, and dream I am moving, swiftly, in a high-prowed boat, upon a dark and silent water.

Last night I fell asleep quickly, into a place beyond sleep, deep and silent, the place I imagine caterpillars go to turn into butterflies.

Insomnia isn't really to do with not being able to sleep; it's about not having given ourselves a chance to think.

Serotonin relays messages related to mood, sexual desire and function, appetite, sleep, memory, learning and social behaviour. The crude theory is that when we don't have enough serotonin, the information doesn't get through.

When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet. (Proverbs 3:24)

I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety. —PSALM 4:7–8

When sleep is not a sanctuary, darkness sometimes is. When the mess of human activity nags at you, the ocean can make you deaf with its rhythmic wash.

Studies have been shown that people with creative minds find it harder to fall asleep at night and prefer to stay up later.

Q: What do you call a sleeping bull? A: A bulldozer.

When you have one of those waking nightmares, when you think bad things in the dark and can't go to sleep, you think happy thoughts. Cartoon dogs, fat clowns, things like that. Except sometimes the cartoon dogs bite and the fat clowns grow sharp smiles. Happy

And over all those sleepy weeks, the dream always ended the same way, with the dragon coming for the princess saying the same words every time.... "Face it, Tally-wa, you're Special.

Instead, in the morning, mangled and sleeping the sleep of the sword, they slopped and floated like the ocean's leavings.