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Quotes About Sleep

Come, Sleep; O Sleep! the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, Th' indifferent judge between the high and low; With shield of proof shield me from out the prease Of those fierce darts Despair at me doth throw.
~ Philip Sidney
A dozen incidents of this kind made everyone realise that the monsters had never left them, that they had simply fallen asleep for a while, and that now their slumbers were over.
~ Philippe Claudel
Maybe it's the fault of our language but dreams are innocent and pictorial. Then let our dreams speak for us side by side, leg over leg, an electroencephalographic kiss flashing blue movies from temple to temple, as we lie gagged in sleep…
~ Phillip Lopate
O little town of Bethlehem!How still we see thee lie;Above thy deep and dreamless sleepThe silent stars go by;Yet in thy dark streets shinethThe everlasting Light;The hopes and fears of all the yearsAre met in thee tonight.
~ Phillips Brooks
When you're there, I sleep lengthwise. And when you're gone, I sleep diagonal in my bed.
~ Phish
How to adjust to a world in which the climax of a scene— and sometimes the central event— is going to sleep? We're going to have to adapt, maybe even invert our sense of priority and our assumptions about what constitutes drama, as most of us foreigners have to do when traveling to Japan.
~ Pico Iyer
Ogni anno l'autunno gli porta di questi sentimenti. Bisogno di silenzi, di solitudine, di ricordi. Bisogno di dormire. Di ricapitolarsi. Bisogno d'interiorità. La terra lo chiama a sé e lo invita a raccogliersi.
~ Pier Vittorio Tondelli
Not sleeping is a problem when you get older. Not only is it linked to weight gain but the whole point of sleep is it allows your body to heal and replenish itself which is vital for good health.
~ Toyah Willcox
Sleep is the Swiss army knife of health. When sleep is deficient, there is sickness and disease. And when sleep is abundant, there is vitality and health.
~ Matthew Walker
Individuals fail to recognise how their perennial state of sleep deficiency has come to compromise their mental aptitude and physical vitality, including the slow accumulation of ill health.
~ Matthew Walker
I take hair growth, natural vitamins and sleep on silk pillow cases.
~ Devon Windsor
We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon it as a vivid and illuminative dream.
~ Annie Besant
I have very vivid dreams - almost always action-adventure. I'm often on the run. I've always had dreams. When I was little, I'd go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies - just drifting off to the movies.
~ Sarah Silverman
Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.
~ Anna Friel
'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.
~ Isaac Watts
I myself have suffered periodically from hearing voices at night when I'm trying to sleep.
~ Elizabeth George
When George W. Bush hit the campaign trail in 2000, the precious possession he brought with him from home was his personal feather pillow. The theme of the Bush years was obliviousness. He was famously unavailable for debate and dialogue. He was deaf to countervailing voices. He hit the sack early and always got a good night's sleep.
~ Tina Brown
When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms.
~ Frank James
Edelman maintains a very conservative balance sheet. We do small acquisitions. This helps me sleep well at night.
~ Richard Edelman
It would be great to run around with the family every day, go shopping, take the children out. At my level, though, I can only afford to do that for one week maximum. Otherwise I have to eat, sleep, train - nothing else.
~ Mo Farah
I can fall asleep in the shower without drowning.
~ Thundercat
I wake up usually quite late, just in time for the lunch, especially if I sleep badly during the night.
~ Tarja Turunen
I don't get much sleep, so I have really bad bags under my eyes.
~ Darcey Bussell
When you get older, you don't have to eat a lot. I get my rest and sleep very well at night. It keeps me very balanced.
~ Tony Bennett