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Quotes About Sleep

I'm at the age where I want two girls. In case I fall asleep they will have someone to talk to.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
I don't do anything but sleep, when I'm not working. I have no life. I'm no fun. All I want to do is sleep and get ready for the next day. It's awesome.
~ Maggie Q
The definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep.
~ Paula Poundstone
I get less and less sleep these days, so when I have any down time all I want to do is sleep!
~ Shawn Johnson
Something like Nightmare On Elm Street, to me, was kind of an examination of levels of consciousness and the pain of facing the truth, and how easy it is to fall asleep, or want to fall asleep.
~ Wes Craven
I only want to sleep . . . and never wake.
~ Alan Grant
I always want to sleep on the third date.
~ Blake Butler
You'll paint some nursery and the kid will want to sleep in a drawer.
~ Drew Magary
Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don't want to drag anything in there that doesn't need to be there.
~ Bellamy Young
no matter how happy we are, no matter how much we want our night to stretch out infinitely, sleep is inevitable.
~ David Levithan
I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me.
~ Donald Hall
Even in sleep, guilt makes it`s point
~ Steven Erikson
By the Lady's never-sucked teats!" "Elas Sil!" "Oh shut up! I'm a woman, I can curse about things like that. Wait, it's not as dark up ahead. Come on, and hasn't that baby of yours been asleep a long time? You sure it's not dead?" "Wel, it peed on me halfway down that last corridor, and last I looked it was smiling." "Huh. It ever amazes me women get talked into motherhood.
~ Steven Erikson
knowing his mood was miserable from lack of sleep […], knowing he was unfair […], knowing all these things but unable to stop the dark torrent of his thoughts.
~ Steven Erikson
I think I am dead. Am I? Am I dead?" "I don't know. But... I think so." "The dead, it is said, do not sleep." Coll knew the saying, and knew that it had originally come from Hood's own temple. He knew, as well, the wry observation that closed the quote. "'While the living do not live'. Not that that makes much sense." "It does to me. For I now know that I have lost what I did not know I once possessed.
~ Steven Erikson
Each night, in his dreams, he wept, and would awaken to find that what had plagued his dreams had pushed through the barrier of sleep, and he would lie beneath the furs, shivering with something like a fever. A sickness in truth, born of dread, guilt and shame. Too many failures, too many bad judgements; he had been stumbling, blind, for so long.
~ Steven Erikson
When subjects go to sleep later in their body temperature cycles, they actually sleep less, even though they have been awake longer.
~ Steven H. Strogatz
And I feel like a real Dad when I read to her at night. She won't sleep without one story, at least.
~ Steven Herrick
And she was not beautiful asleep. Her expression slack and not angelic. The very ordinariness of it so beautiful he felt a yearning to be something more than he was or could be. And as good a player as he was, he knew as he turned on the reel to reel and hugged the Fender once again that nothing he composed would ever be as beautiful as her ordinary sleep. Watching her he played the music of her sleeping. And by surrendering made something beautiful.
~ Steven R. Boyett
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'
~ Steven Wright
I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day, because that means it's going to be up all night.
~ Steven Wright
You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.
~ Steven Wright
Did you sleep well?" "No, I made a couple of mistakes.
~ Steven Wright
I hate it when my leg falls asleep. I know that means it's going to be up all night.
~ Steven Wright