Quotes About Sleep

Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.

Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it's time for me to go to bed.

Get over jet-lag quickly. I think a lot of people waste the first few days sleeping in the wrong time zone. Sometimes I take melatonin but at other times a glass of wine will do it.

For a long time I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.]

Time and death sleep side by side.

My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.

I love L.A. I always have such a great time in L.A. The way I kind of define me and L.A. is the noise of the factory doesn't let me sleep well.

Shadows are falling and I've been here all day/It's too hot to sleep, time is running away/Feel like my soul has turned into steel/I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal.

Temperament, you'll find, is highly dependent on time of day, weather, frequency of naps, and whether one has had enough to eat.

I have insomnia, and it's hard for me to sit still for a long time. My mind is always "tick, tick, tick."

The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of "comfort food" we expect to lull us to sleep.

No," I said finally. "Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?" "1940" I said promptly, which is the problem with Quickness in Answering.

I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time.

Uncontrolled or covert napping, however, is still probably very common. One need only move through a building surreptitiously and peek at people to find some subset of sleep at any given time.

The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.

Hasn't it been a long time since you had a flying dream?

I'm so used to changing time zones that I can sleep at any time. I'm rarely ever tossing and turning - if I am, it's really a big deal.

A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.

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.

We haven't really - it's harder for us to set those rhythms. So it's really important to keep a steady bedtime and wake time to really lock in those rhythms.

And you cycle throughout so that you do about five to six cycles throughout the night. And we spend more time in REM later on in the night than we do earlier on.

We actually don't know the function of sleep all that well yet, but sleep is a time of quiescence in the brain.

We dream every night, all the time.

The more sleep you get in before the clock turns midnight, the more rested you feel no matter what time your alarm goes off.