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Quotes About Sleep

For a while, I had a rule of no smartphone in bed, but now I've upgraded to no smartphone in the bedroom. The fact that we need rules shows how much these things have invaded our lives.
~ John Lanchester
At any given time, I have to be looking at different things constantly, and it involves a lot of flying, and it doesn't involve much sleep.
~ Tony Khan
I was watching Johnny Carson when I was way too young to be awake that late.
~ Sallie Patrick
I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.
~ Jack Valenti
I'd rather stay asleep than have to learn all those frightening secrets.
~ Francesca Marciano
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
~ Francis Bacon
Çok gözetleyen kimse eninde sonunda uyuyakal?r.
~ Francis Bacon
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
~ Francis Beaumont
My wife will look after you, madam," he said. "I hope you'll be comfortable. Sleep well — pleasant dreams!" he added, with daring familiarity; then climbed the stairs slowly, feeling more like a slapped child than the hero of romance which he had imagined himself an hour before.
~ Francis Brett Young
The slumber of reason breeds monsters.
~ Francisco de Goya y Lucientes
you know we've all sinned a lot against science so we really ought to be as available as an apple on a bough pleasant thought fresh air free love cross-pollenization oh oh god how I'd love to dream let alone sleep
~ Frank O'Hara
Therefore remember: Always fall asleep with peaceful and harmonious thoughts or with thoughts of success, health and inner peacefulness.
~ Franz Bardon
Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
~ Franz Kafka
He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.
~ Fred Allen
Sólo hay dos cosas que relajan de verdad. Reír y hacer el amor. No estamos haciendo ni lo uno ni lo otro. –Lo sospechaba. –¿Y dormir? –preguntó Veyrenc–. ¿No relaja? –No, teniente, dormir descansa. No es lo mismo.
~ Fred Vargas
But work a year and sleep an hour, and sleep a night and sing a day, And take a little wine and love, and when you feel religious—pray.
~ Frederic Ridgely Torrence
We sleep and nap in bed--my two piled up mattresses on the bare wooden floor. We are silent, dreamy. She surveys my photographs crowded on the wall. I have no particular subject, no special theme. The Brooklyn Bridge at dawn will do, tugs and their milky wake, elms fading in the fading light, my postman and his green mailbag. It's the shooting the excites me. Printing is the fatiguing task after the action, the dressing of the game after the hunt.
~ Frederic Tuten
The Central Nervous System is like a cup of tea that you must never let overflow." -Charlie Francis, Sprint Coach Every stressor, whether it be personal problems, internal training, weight training, or lack of sleep, adds tea (in this case, fatigue) to your cup. If the cup of tea (fatigue) does not overflow but is adequately stressed, supercompensation (fitness) takes place.
~ Frederick C. Hatfield
I'm terrified of bugs and I travel with sprays, lotions, potions the lot. I have to check the room before I go to sleep and if I come across a bug and fail to remove it I have to sleep in a separate room as I'm paranoid that I'll be taken advantage of as I sleep.
~ Freema Agyeman
ungewaschen an der Maschine halb 4 Ur morgens später seitlich den Kopf an dem sprachlosen Lamm das mich schläferte endlich eigentlich Schaafes Locken dessen Schäfer ich war im Traum
~ Friederike Mayröcker
Wir lagen beisammen unter der Erde, eingehüllt in ihre warme Dunkelheit, uns nicht mehr fürchtend, und von der Ecke her, wo der Mann auf seiner Matratze schlief, lautlos wie ein Toter, starrten uns die gelben Augen des Hundes an, runde Scheiben zweier schwefligen Monde, die unsere Liebe belauerten.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
One thing for sure is that most working athletes would go faster if they managed to get an extra hour of sleep every night. Sleep is a natural performance enhancer, and a lack of it is probably the single greatest challenge facing most working athletes.
~ Friel Joe
Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
~ Bram Stoker
Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
~ Bram Stoker