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Quotes About Sleep

Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of 'I could have, I should have.' We can sleep in a storm. "And when it's time, our good-byes will be complete.
~ Mitch Albom
You're the icing on the cake on the table at my wake, You're the extra ton of cash on my sinking life raft, You're the loud sound of fun when I'm trying to sleep, You're the flowers in my house when my allergies come out.
~ Modest Mouse
What happens is my mind starts to go in circles, thinking and thinking, and then I can't sleep. And once a couple of days go by, if you haven't slept, you start to get sick. You can't eat. You start to cry. It just feeds on itself.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Basta così. Non tutti sono al corrente di ciò che è accaduto, – la fermò egli, e la Prima Signora che era al suo fianco intervenne: – Non è il caso di preoccuparsi, e comunque ho tanto sonno che non avrei sentito nulla, – disse, coprendosi le orecchie con le maniche.
~ Murasaki Shikibu
Once it is set in motion in a certain direction, the kinetic action of the subconscious mind continues throughout your sleep. That is why it is so critical to give the subconscious mind something beneficial to work on as you drop off into slumber.
~ Murphy Joseph
Dopo un po' chiuse gli occhi e stava quasi per precipitare nelle oscurità del sonno, quando lui disse: «Nulla è reale, eccetto i sogni e l'amore.»
~ N. M. Kelby
A red backless slipper slowly slid off her foot...and Franz, bending down after it, plunged softly into dark slumber.
~ Nabokov Vladimir
Soon the house shook with Celia's snores. To Matt, the sound was as normal as the thunder that sometimes echoed over the hills. It in no way kept him from sleep.
~ Nancy Farmer
I [Miryem] went staggering to all the shelves in the room, looking for anything left to change, and when I didn't find anything after going round three times, I just stood there stupidly for a few more moments, and then I lay down on my mountain of gold like an improbable dragon and fell asleep without meaning to do so.
~ Naomi Novik
you know perfectly well you ought to stop reading and go to bed and you'll feel hideously groggy in the morning if you don't
~ Naomi Novik
I love having existential crises at bedtime, it's so restful.
~ Naomi Novik
in the same way you know perfectly well you ought to stop reading and go to bed and you'll feel hideously groggy in the morning if you don't, and yet you keep going.
~ Naomi Novik
I have slept so many times you might think I would really be awake by now
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
Kid, if you never remember your dreams you lose out on half of your life
~ Carla Speed McNeil
Cuando llovía con fuerza, Max sentía que el tiempo se detenía. Era como una tregua en la cual uno podía dejar de hacer cualquier cosa que le ocupase en aquel momento y sencillamente acercarse a contemplar el espectáculo de aquella infinita cortina de lágrimas del cielo desde una ventana, durante horas. Dejó de nuevo el libro sobre la mesita y apagó la luz. Lentamente, envuelto en el sonido hipnótico de la lluvia, se rindió al sueño.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I've never been one for naps. What I go for is insomnia elevated to an art form. I'll catch up on sleep when I die.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It is a scientifically acknowledged fact that any infant a few months old has an unerring instinct for sensing the exact moment in the early hours when his parents have managed to nod off, so he can raise the tone of his cries, thereby ensuring they don't get more than thirty minutes' sleep at a time.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Miért nevezik inszomniának, mikor valójában a lelkiismeretrÅ'l beszelnek?
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Why call it insomnia, when what they mean is conscience?
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
got up to fetch a glass of water and, assuming I'd missed the train to sleep, I went up to the study, opened the drawer in my desk and pulled out the book I had rescued from the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Es un hecho científicamente comprobado que cualquier infante de pocos meses de vida sabe detectar con instinto infalible ese momento exacto de la madrugada en que sus padres han conseguido conciliar el sueño para elevar el lanto y evitar así que puedan descansar más de treinta minutos seguidos.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I lie on my belly and embrace the fleshy ground, to get closer to my love. My cheeks become wet with tears, or maybe it's just sweat rising out of the skin below me. I drift into sleep, absorbing the sound of Stacy's heartbeat vibrating through my entire body.
~ Carlton Mellick III
Brian was only thirteen. He was asleep by one A.M.
~ Caroline B. Cooney
Leaving the Connecticut River March 8, 1704 Temperature 40 degrees They marched until the captives could not take another step. Eben dragged Eliza half the way and Sarah dragged her the rest. Mercy and Joseph took turns hauling Ruth. That night they slept like rocks, and in the morning Mercy understood why bears spent the whole winter sleeping. It sounded good to Mercy.
~ Caroline B. Cooney