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Quotes About Sleep

Silenzio. O i bei silenzi delle nostre notti sveglie.. Quante placide insonnie ci siamo goduti, tua madre e io, da quando ci conosciamo. Il sonno è una separazione.
~ Daniel Pennac
Un bel sonno dal respiro regolare. No, no, non svegliatelo, non c'è niente di meglio di una bella dormita dopo una ninnananna, anzi, è il primo piacere nell'ordine della lettura.
~ Daniel Pennac
La quantità di sé che viene eliminata con le lacrime! Piangendo si fa molta più acqua che pisciando, ci si pulisce infinitamente meglio che tuffandosi nel lago più puro, si posa il fardello dello spirito sul marciapiede del binario d'arrivo. Una volta che l'anima si è liquefatta, si può celebrare il ricongiungimento con il corpo. Stanotte il mio dormirà bene.
~ Daniel Pennac
La première qualité d'un professeur, c'est le sommeil. Le bon professeur est celui qui se couche tôt
~ Daniel Pennac
I slept for over a full day, as you know, but I won't say I rested.
~ Daniel Woodrell
I would have liked to catch hold of sleep at least once, just as I had been resolved to catch hold of death one day, to catch hold of the wings of the angel of sleep when it came for me, to grab it with two fingers like a butterfly after sneaking up on it from behind. [...] My sleep game was practice for the grand struggle with death.
~ Danilo Kiš
But here's the good news: 70 percent is in your control! That 70 percent is called your lifestyle, and it makes a much bigger impact on your future than you may think. How you choose to eat, exercise, sleep, relax, and deal with stress adds up in big ways. Don't rely on "good genes" to get you by long term.
~ Danna Demetre
One of the best ways to supersize this lifestyle strategy is to take your last bite of food or sip of caloric beverage three hours before you go to bed.
~ Danna Demetre
Making love to a Negro isn't frightening; sleeping with him is. Sleep is complete surrender. It's more than nude; it's naked. Anything can happen during the night, when reason sleeps.
~ Dany Laferrière
What I want to write is that I lay there until morning, with tear-stained eyes, a tear-stained pillow, a tear-stained life. What can one do with levels of gloom and guilt, fear and disbelief, of bewilderment above one's capacity to register? I slept soundly.
~ Darin Strauss
Il sonno è una piccola morte
~ Dario Bellezza
Nick: "Don't you think maybe a drink would help you to sleep?" Nora: "No, thanks." Nick: "Maybe it would if I took one.
~ Dashiell Hammett
not all your brain goes to sleep when you do. It leaves a night watch on duty, and often the night watch can find answers that your waking brain missed.
~ Dave Duncan
Exxon Valdese, Chernobyl and Three Mile Island had one thing in common: They were all industrial accidents that occurred in the middle of the night involving people with sleep management problems. Insufficient sleep is responsible for billions of dollars of industrial accidents.
~ Dave Grossman
Is it the shadow itself that looks out through our eyes at midday? Small wonder that so many traditional peoples give themselves over to siesta, and sleep, for an hour or two at this time, letting their tissues and organs respond to this interior visitation by the night, allowing the many cells or souls within them to be tutored by the darkness that has taken temporary refuge within their flesh.
~ David Abram
I sleep lightly and tread to keep my head out of the sea of dreams.
~ David Anthony Durham
he was looking at Isla Fawcett, who was looking at her brother Morris, who had his eyes shut because he was asleep.
~ David Baddiel
I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion.
~ David Benioff
Once you awaken, you will have no interest in judging those who sleep.
~ James Blanchard Cisneros
Such groundless fears will arise in the mind, before it has resumed its vigour after sleep!
~ James Boswell
I love it when I have a nightmare to me that means I got my money's worth out of that eight hours
~ James Cameron
Jace: Feels like I just woke up from a bad dream. Max Guevara: I know. One of the reasons why I don't sleep. Let me know if it's a boy or a girl. Jace: Either way, name's gonna be Max.
~ James Cameron
Nothing more peaceful to me then falling asleep in a peaceful church or falling asleep next to a Beautiful woman as both are beautiful things as I feel safe and at peace
~ James D Wilson
Nothing more peaceful to me then falling asleep in a peaceful church or falling asleep next to a Beautiful woman as both as beautiful things as I feel safe and at peace
~ James D Wilson