Quotes About Sleep

For though I tried to move his arm— unlock his bridegroom clasp—yet, sleeping as he was, he still hugged me tightly, as though naught but death should part us twain.

No man prefers to sleep two in a bed. In fact, you would a good deal rather not sleep with your own brother. I don't know how it is, but people like to be private when they are sleeping.

It's worth a fellow's while to be born into the world, if only to fall right asleep

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

and then blowing out the light tumbled into bed, and commended myself to the care of heaven.

A sleeping apartment should never be furnished with a fire, which is one of the luxurious discomforts of the rich.

Thinking, thinking—a wheel I cannot stop; pure want of sleep it is that turns it.

We sing; they sleep—aye, lie down there, like ground-tier butts. At 'em again! There, take this copper-pump, and hail 'em through it. Tell 'em to avast dreaming of their lasses. Tell 'em it's the resurrection; they must kiss their last, and come to judgment.

Como la gaviota sin tierra que, al atardecer, pliega las alas y se mece hasta dormirse entre el oleaje, al caer la noche el hombre de Nantucket, lejos de la tierra, recoge las velas y se echa a dormir, mientras bajo su almohada corren morsas y ballenas.

Willie experienced the strange sensations of the first days of a new captain: a shrinking of his personal identiy, and a stretching out of his nerve ends to all the spaces and machinery of the ship. He was less free than before. He developed the apprehensive listening ears of a young mother; the ears listened on in his sleep; he never quite slept, not the way he had before.

Yacían juntos en silencio y miraban el techo de la habitación, donde se dibujaban unas líneas amarillentas que procedían de las rendijas de las persianas: parecían el tórax de un esqueleto. Después Joachim se durmió y, cuando Elisabeth se dio cuenta, no pudo evitar una sonrisa. Y después se durmió también.

But there is some influence in vows or plans that escapes our power of rejudgement. All false calculations must be paid for, and I found, as you will see, that having said I would sleep in the open, I had to keep to it in spite of all my second thoughts.

Le fracas des explosions les faisait à peine ciller et les pressait contre la poitrine des mères, les accrochait au cou des pères. De fatigue, la peur des adultes s'était envolée. Comme il était naïf le proverbe des temps de paix qui affirmait que la peur chassait le sommeil, c'était au contraire le besoin de dormir qui chassait tout le reste, guerres et tremblements de terre.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

an irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself...

When night falls and the world lies lost in sleep, I take to my bed, my heart throbbing, about to break, anxieties swarming, piercing—I may go mad with grief.

Sleep is sweet, whomever it seizes, though he has cares.

So the other gods as well as chariot-fighting men slept through the night;

2.?ILIÁDOS B So the other gods as well as chariot-fighting men slept through the night; but

let not forgetfulness take you, after you are released from the kindly sweet slumber.

Alles wird man ja satt, des schlafes sogar, und der liebe, Auch des süßen gesangs, und bewunderten reigentanzes: Welche doch mehr anreizen die sehnsuchtsvolle begierde, Als der krieg; doch die Troer sind niemals satt des gefechts! (Ilias; 13. Gesang V. 636-640)

Night blanketed weary men who fell asleep where they dropped on the trampled prairie grass, while around them other prostrate men from both armies screamed and groaned in agony from wounds. By the eerie light of torches 'the surgeon's saw was going the livelong night.

20, 51; 1 Thess. 4:13–17). Sleep is an excellent analogy. The

It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.