Quotes About Sleep

Sleep felt miles away, and he couldn't shake the despair and hopelessness that coursed through his body and mind—

Dawn seemed to come late the next day, as if the sun had decided to sleep in, the sky wrapped in gray clouds, the threat of rain heavy and imminent.

To fully appreciate the Sleep, you had to embrace the Wake and all its drudgery.

Back in the present, these thoughts tormented Mark for at least another hour—and he knew if he dreamed it would only get worse. He was scared of being scared. He drifted off despite his efforts. Sleep came over him like cold, crashing waves.

they were the same smart-aleck, know-it-all, best-hackers-in-the-Sleep, teenage troublemakers they'd always been.

it seemed like he'd just dozed off. Or passed out was probably more accurate.

I had the feeling that if it were perfectly quiet, if I could hear nothing, I would never wake up. Something in the world had to pull me back, for every night I went down deep, and if I had any sensation during sleep, it was of going deeper and deeper, trying to reach a point, a line or border.

A farmer once told me one of the greatest luxuries of his life was to wake up early only to go back to sleep again.

he devoted a considerable amount of his acute intelligence to the cause of doing as little as possible. Tristan did, in fact, spend much of his time sleeping in a chair.

There are flowers growing upon the hill Like they always have before, And now you slumber and all is still, And your sword will ne'er strike more.

One of the most frequent sins of omission is the failure to get adequate rest.

Anna woke with the wonderful feeling bad sleepers have when they know they have slept well. As if they have stolen something and got away with it. At these times the memories of what led up to such deep sleep keep their distance for a few seconds and those few seconds are perhaps the only time the world can ever be said to show mercy.

Again last night I dreamed the dream called Laundry.

There's a song that they sing when they take to the highway, a song that they sing when they take to the sea, a song that they sing of their home in the sky, maybe you can believe it if it helps you to sleep, but singing works just fine for me.

A pleasing land of drowsyhead it was.

Early to rise and early to bed Makes a man healthy and wealthy and dead.

Besides, I think it's good to change the place where one sleeps from time to time. I believe it gives one more interesting dreams.

Nothing is lonelier or more disorienting than insomnia

But how can you stand to stay asleep so much?" Harriet had once asked her sister curiously. Allison shrugged. "Isn't it boring?" "I only get bored when I'm awake.

No. I am rather curious to see what it is like. Besides, I think it's good to change the place where one sleeps from time to time. I believe it gives one more interesting dreams.

steep taper, seven day timetable, plenty of loperamide; magnesium supplements and free form amino acids to replenish my burnt-out neurotransmitters; protein powder, electrolyte powder, melatonin (and weed) for sleep as well as various herbal tinctures and potions my fashion intern swore by, licorice root and milk thistle, nettles and hops and black cumin seed oil, valerian root and skullcap extract. I had a shopping bag from the health food store with all the stuff

No, he's asleep. Where's my mother? Is

I hadn't slept with anybody in Vermont except a little red-haired girl I met at a party on the first weekend.

It was six o'clock in the morning, and the sun was rising over the mountains, and the birches, and the impossibly green meadows; and to me, dazed with night and no sleep and three days on the highway, it was like a country from a dream.