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Quotes About Sleep

My girlfriend sleeps in a queen-sized bed and I sleep in a court jester-sized bed.
~ Steven Wright, I Have a Pony
The air was hushed and still as if the fog were an enchantment beneath whose spell the whole world slept.
~ Storm Constantine
The landscape slept in peace, while he, as a savior of the dead, walked like a wraith himself beneath the shadows of the trees.
~ Storm Constantine
The Sink looked utterly enchanted, as if everyone was under the spell of a magical sleep.
~ Storm Constantine
For a while, I slept, my dreams coloured by the hectic voices beyond the garden; the crazy songs of the gift of the vine.
~ Storm Constantine
Looking back, I feel that a beast was loosed in me in Lansaal-it was certainly loosed in Beth-an ancient beast from ancient times, which lurks still within the hearts of our people, waiting for the scent of terrified blood to wake it from sleep.
~ Storm Constantine
Shem dozed beside Daniel on the floor of the jeep. Daniel stared at his sleeping face, fighting an urge to reach out and touch it. Not yet. The time wasn't right.
~ Storm Constantine
If you're only using your bed for sleep, then don't bother waking up.
~ Stuart Hazleton
Later, just before she drifted off to sleep, Jess realized the ghastly fact that, just as she had assumed that Edouard smelt disgusting, Edouard's first impression of her would have been that she did. The only difference was that she really had . It was not the greatest start to their relationship.
~ Sue Limb
Kiriwar: "It doesn't matter. Bitro's gonna sew your eyebrows to your eyelids when we get back." Gunzi: "Whaaat?! Then I won't be able to sleep!!" Kiriwar: "That's the idea, dumbass.
~ Suguro Chayamachi
Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
~ Herman Melville
I realized I couldn't raise two kids, coach soccer, be on the PTA, teach full time, and do all the administrative bookkeeping. I do need to sleep four or five hours a day.
~ Kathy Szeliga
I find it is a bad habit to look at social media before bed, so I try to read something on paper - not on my phone - before I go to bed.
~ Katrina Lake
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
~ James Thurber
I use an extremely soft mattress. Hard ones are a complete no-no.
~ Mukul Dev
I will spend anything on the best sheets in the world because I am going to be in them every night. I like them white and crazy soft.
~ Amy Landecker
They're like sleeping in a soft bed. Easy to get into and hard to get out of.
~ Johnny Bench
I use a progressive alarm that makes a soft sound at first and then progressively gets louder. But I usually wake on the first sound, so it doesn't disturb my wife. When I used a loud alarm clock, I was more likely to hit it on the head and go back to sleep.
~ Edwin Catmull
My sole recreations consist in dancing English hornpipes and cutting capers. Italy is a land of sleep; I am always drowsy here.
~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I have to make sure I get eight hours of solid sleep a night.
~ Adam Vinatieri
It's impossible for me to sleep late. I generally wake up around 9, 9:30. I wish I could get a solid nine hours; it's always around six.
~ Scott Rogowsky
Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like.
~ Edward Hirsch
Remember that we can only in our forebrains handle 5-7 items. Our backbrains can handle massive amounts. So when you're given a problem, think about it before you go sleep, and chances are you can solve it by the next morning.
~ Nolan Bushnell
Sometimes the challenge of beating the jet lag and getting a decent sleep can be as hard to solve as finding the right setup for the car!
~ Romain Grosjean