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Quotes About Sleep

Hey, people who travel with their bed pillow. You look insane.
~ Jim Gaffigan
When I get on the airplane, I put on the eye mask. And I travel a lot so I use it all the time.
~ Jill Stuart
The time is short and the hills is dark and I's got miles to go before I sleeps. Is is no easy road.
~ Ian McDonald, Planesrunner
it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee.
~ Elizabeth Prentiss
I can only sign over everything, the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels, the soul, the family tree, the mailbox. Then I can sleep. Maybe.
~ Anne Sexton
An English homegrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
She fell asleep, leaning on his chest, and he edged her a little off a particularly painful bruise, leaned his head back against the tree he had propped them up against, and closed his own eyes.
~ Robin McKinley
She fell into a long sleep and dreamed the dreams of the Dream Tree.
~ Stephen Cosgrove
Sleep not under a willow tree for she weeps many tears.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
Night by night I will lie down and sleep in the thought of God, and in the thought, too, that my waking may be in the bosom of the Father; and some time it will be, so I trust.
~ William Mountford
Just as good and virtue, sin and evil can only be given in vigil. Who sleeps, sleeps; for the asleep there is no sin, just as there is no good, nor virtue. There is only sleep.
~ Judas Iscariot
I felt the way I feel sometimes right before you go to sleep, when all you want to do is sleep, and then suddenly, when you're almost there, when your mind goes dizzy and it's almost like you don't have a body at all, your remember how long the night is, how you might not wake back up. And like a shock, you're sitting straight up, scared to do the thing you've done every day of your life.
~ Sheri Reynolds
For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighted upon me all day. I felt myself a changed girl. A strange melancholy was stealing over me, a melancholy that I would not have interrupted. Dim thoughts of death began to open, and an idea that I was slowly sinking took gentle, and, somehow, not unwelcome, possession of me. If it was sad, the tone of mind which this induced was also sweet.
~ Sheridan Le Fanu
One took slippery elm and let it lie in milk until it became soft. This applied to the burns enabled to sleep better at night.
~ Sherwood Anderson
Rage was a monster inside me, one that often slept, but certain sights, sounds, scents—that was all it took to awaken that beast.
~ Shiloh Walker
Merricat, said Connie, would you like a cup of tea? Oh no, said Merricat, you'll poison me. Merricat, said Connie, would you like to go to sleep? Down in the boneyard ten feet deep!
~ Shirley Jackson
The early bird gets the worm. I'd rather sleep in and have toaster muffins.
~ Shirley Lipner
Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled, And one arm bent across your sullen cold Exhausted face? It hurts my heart to watch you, Deep-shadow'd from the candle's guttering gold; And you wonder why I shake you by the shoulder; Drowsy, you mumble and sigh and turn your head.... You are too young to fall asleep for ever; And when you sleep you remind me of the dead.
~ Siegfried Sassoon
But death replied: "I choose him." So he went, And there was silence in the summer night; Silence and safety; and the veils of sleep. Then, far away, the thudding of the guns.
~ Siegfried Sassoon
Houses dream they are boats at night.
~ Silvina Ocampo
I remember the bed and the crisp, yellowing sheets. I wondered how many people had slept in it. I marveled at how the pillow, like a small theater, had staged countless dreams.
~ Simon Van Booy
Daddy, where's panda?" Gerard finds her stuffed panda and lays it next to her. She goes back to sleep immediately. In
~ Simon Van Booy