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Quotes About Sleep

She slept a lot and didn't dream, and on most occasions she was sorry to wake up. Everything disappeared when she was asleep.
~ Markus Zusak
and on most occasions she was sorry to wake up. Everything disappeared when she was asleep.
~ Markus Zusak
All afternoon, I read. I fall asleep once as well, no disrespect to the writers.
~ Markus Zusak
Dormía mucho, sin sueños, y casi siempre se arrepentía de despertarse. Dormida, todo desaparecía.
~ Markus Zusak
What could never be endured, it turned out, was the last swathe of time before sleep came, the path from larger day to huger night, a little death when the mind was still alive and fluttering. Thus
~ Martin Amis
Would Turner have slept through such terrific drama? Absolutely not! Anyone in my business who slept through that would be a fool. I don't keep office hours.
~ Martin Gayford
Angel was snoring softly, curled in the cramped backseat of the car. She chuckled to herself. He could fall asleep at the drop of a hat anytime and anywhere. Unlike herself, who struggled to fall asleep anywhere but in her own bed, and even then she usually awoke in the early hours of the morning—the witching hour—her mind spinning with thoughts, recriminations, and dire warnings.
~ Mary Alice Monroe
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death. The higher the interest rate and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Whatever one may say, the happiest moment of the happy man is the moment ... falling asleep, and the unhappiest moment of the unhappy that of his awaking
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Our life is to be regarded as a loan received from death, with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
There is nothing to suggest that true fasting involves abstaining from sleep. God may call us to do this for very short periods, such as giving up a night's sleep. Paul speaks of "watchings" as distinct from "fastings" (2 Cor. 6:5; 11:27, KJV).
~ Arthur Wallis
Sleep came to them, quick and easy, like money to millionaires.
~ Arundhati Roy
By the time they got back, the lights were all out and everybody was asleep. Everybody, that is, except for Guih Kyom the dung beetle. He was wide awake and on duty, lying on his back with his legs in the air to save the world in case the heavens fell.
~ Arundhati Roy
I go to sleep feeling impressed with the powers of the mind. *
~ Augusten Burroughs
I read The Old Man and the Sea but my eyelids bled from the toothpicks that I used to keep them open.
~ Augusten Burroughs
They lay in bed together that night, and they did not know when they slept, the intervals of exhausted unconsciousness as intense an act of union as the convulsed meetings of their bodies.
~ Ayn Rand
Voglio dormire fino alla morte, magari di qualcun altro
~ Stefano Benni
I'm going to have a nice little nap in this sun. Don't think to wander off-I'll know if you move. A very light sleeper, I am. Heather stared, speechless, at the woman who slept so soundly every night that she'd never heard Heather slip out of their room, or back in. Heather managed not to shake her head in disbelief, just in case Martha was watching through her lashes.
~ Stephanie Laurens
I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't
~ Stephen Chbosky
I can't think again. Not ever again. I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That's why I'm trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning
~ Stephen Chbosky
I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist.
~ Stephen Chbosky