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Quotes About Sleep

As a senior warrior, I sleep in the center of the group, where it's warmest.
~ Erin Hunter
Crookedjaw hopped over Rippleclaw, who was fast asleep, and landed beside Graypaw. The gray apprentice was huddled in the shade of the fallen tree. "Where's Willowpaw?
~ Erin Hunter
I think I'd better take some of Gramps' sleeping pills, I'm never going to be able to sleep without them. In fact I think I'd better take a supply of them. He's got plenty, and I'm sure I'll have a few bad nights at home before I get straightened out. Oh, I hope it's just a few.
~ Beatrice Sparks
It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
~ Beatrix Potter
La crueldad de las escenas que ha vivido no la dejan dormir tranquila. Nadie puede salir inmune de las brutalidades que se llevan a cabo en los campos de batalla, de la infinita tristeza reflejada en los rostros de los huérfanos que acaba de retratar en algún hospicio de Madrid.
~ Beatriz Rivas
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.
~ beecher henry ward ii
Sam had a child's faith in the healing power of the morning, she thought later, as she lay sleepless at his side; he believed that a good night's sleep could iron out all the accumulated wrinkles of the day. She resented his ability to fall asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow while she tossed restlessly in bed; his even breathing was an affront to her wakefulness.
~ Bel Kaufman
I woke in the hour before dawn, stuck in that strange state where the memory of your dreams is still powerful enough to motivate your actions.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
I only remember the end of my dreams, like waking up at a steering wheel, or falling.
~ Ben Barnes
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could'st make the time to do so too; I'll wind thee up no more.
~ Ben Jonson
Montagu and Cholmondeley took turns lying in the back and trying to sleep, as if that were possible when being driven at high speed by a myopic Grand Prix driver with no headlights. This was the closest either came to death in action during the war
~ Ben Macintyre
In the evening I spray my eyes with plant milk before retiring; this lubricates my blinking apparatus during sleep, throwing more light into my dreams, though I'm not much of a believer in the imagination.
~ Ben Marcus
Her sigh was full of despair, but at the bottom of her lungs, at the depth of her breath's expulsion, there was also hope, waiting like sleep at the end of even the most torrid day.
~ Ben Okri
Sleep no more!' I cried. 'Montgomery doth murder sleep.
~ Ben Schott
When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.
~ Ben Stein
Close your eyes and try to sleep now Close your eyes and try to dream Clear your mind and do your best to try and wash the palette clean
~ benatar pat iii
Go play with the towns you have built of blocks, The towns where you would have bound me! I sleep in my earth like a tired fox, And my buffalo have found me.
~ benet stephen vincent iii
Phoebe lay rigid, staring into the darkness. It was often like this; she would go to sleep and then after an hour or two would start awake from a nightmare not a single detail of which had stayed with her.
~ Benjamin Black
There is ample time to sleep; after death.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Rather go to bed supperless, than in debt.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Fatigue is the best pillow.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Your baby doesn't need a pillow for her head, and you should not use one. Likewise, it's best to keep stuffed animals out of your baby's crib or cradle; little babies don't care much about them, and they may pose a suffocation
~ Benjamin Spock
When I have been compell'd to sit up all Night about some extraordinary Business, I needed to do no more than to take some of this Tea, when I perceiv'd my self beginning to sleep, and I could easily watch all Night without winking; and in the Morning I was as fresh as if I had slept my ordinary time; this I could do once a week without any trouble. [Quoting Dr. William Chamberlayne (1619–89), English physician and poet, in his Treatise of Tea.]
~ Bennett Alan Weinberg
I regard bed as my best friend.
~ Diana Rigg