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Quotes About Sleep

The rush that you get from having a good night's sleep is so exotic: to feel powerful and clean, capable and potent, as opposed to washed up, impotent and mute.
~ Pete Doherty
I fell asleep once while washing dishes. I hallucinated prolifically - like, squirrels knitting whole sweaters! It was like my dreams inserted themselves in my waking life.
~ Emil Ferris
More insomniacs!' cried the doctor. 'Come in, come in".
~ Rachel Hartman
I'd been asking about recreational vehicle. RV. Camping vehicle. "What do you sleep in?" "Our boxer shorts," his friend said. Blue Eyes laughed. "Come on, Zach. That's not what she was asking.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
I love that moment, when you stop struggling to stay awake and your eyelids shut sink down and you slip effortlessly into another realm that's beckoning to you.
~ Rachel Klein
In this little room, tonight, every night, there is so much misery, so much despair, that the walls seem almost too narrow to contain it. … Yet outside there are happy people who sleep the sleep of the so-called just and righteous. When they wake it will be to persecute those who, through no fault of their own, have been set apart from the day of their birth, deprived of all sympathy, all understanding. They are thoughtless, these happy people who sleep.
~ Radclyffe Hall
But presently, huddled beneath the blankets, the child would be soothed by a warm sense of safety, and her nerves would relax, while her body grew limp with the drowsy softness of bed. Then suddently a big and most comforting yawn, and another, and another, until darkness and Collins and tall clocks that menaced, and Stephen herself, were all blended and merged into something quite friendly, a harmonious whole, neither fearful or doubting-the blessed illusion we call sleep.
~ Radclyffe Hall
The grey of a bitter, starved-looking morning. The town like a mortally wounded creature, torn by shells, gashed open by bombs. Dead streets - streets of death - death in streets and their houses; yet people still able to sleep and still sleeping.
~ Radclyffe Hall
A master of spin, Hermes escorted dead souls into the underworld. The ancients worshipped him as the god of travel, speech, roads, boundaries, sleep, dream, and the nameless places that fall between here and there. Two of those in-between spots deserve special recognition: the shadowy realm between wakefulness and sleep, and the transition between life and death.
~ Rae Orion
I also noticed that as you go to sleep the ideas continue, but they become less and less logically interconnected. You don't notice that they're not logically connected until you ask yourself, "What made me think of that?" and you try to work your way back, and often you can't remember what the hell did make you think of that!
~ Ralph Leighton
Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
El agua mineral sabe a pie dormido
~ Ramón Gómez de la Serna
The tags' chain stirs with the wind; and I sleep Paid, dead, and a soldier. Who fights for his own life Loses, loses: I have killed for my world, and am free.
~ Randall Jarrell
Internal medicine doctors know the functions of the kidneys. They don't confuse protective defenses such as cough and pain with diseases such as pneumonia and cancer. Psychiatrists lack a similar framework for the utility of stress, sleep, anxiety, and mood, so psychiatric diagnostic categories remain confusing and crude.
~ Randolph M. Nesse
sleep medication to Lunexor,
~ Randy Singer
I refused to worry about more than one thing at a time, and I would not let useless fretting about a problem, no matter how important, keep me from sleeping. This is easier said than done.
~ Ray Kroc
Hay algo que he aprendido en todos estos años: puedes dormir en cualquier parte pero no puedes despertarte en cualquier parte.
~ Ray Loriga
Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they are born and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.
~ Ray Romano
My schedule is pretty busy, so I've learned to do my makeup quickly because I prefer to sleep.
~ Katie Holmes
It would be nice if they didn't make me get up at 5 A.M. for a 12-hour day. My caravan is never big enough to lie down. There is no little doze. You are knackered by the time you get home. Knackered.
~ Diana Rigg
I used to record 'Futurama' episodes on my cassette player and play it to help me go to sleep.
~ Jermaine Fowler
It's interesting how sleepwalking in a certain way becomes an accumulation of your outside stimuli that's actually there and what's happening in your brain.
~ Mike Birbiglia
I just can't put the pressure on of winning a championship, winning a championship, because then I'd never be able to sleep.
~ Tyronn Lue