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Quotes About Sleep

They slept that deep sleep reserved for babies and consenting adults who have worn their bodies out with hot sex.
~ Carolyn Brown
Is he asleep? Finn whispered. Out like a light. He thinks he's too big to crawl into bed with me so when he as the nightmares, we sleep on the sofa the rest of the night. So you are the nightmare whisperer, he chuckled. What? Like the horse whisperer. Only you banish nightmares with your presence. Damn, Callie! I wish I'd have known that two years ago. I would have looked you up and slept on the sofa with you, he said.
~ Carolyn Brown
Everyone said good-night and went to his room.
~ Carolyn Keene
soles occidere et redire possunt: nobis cum semel occidit breuis lux, nox est perpetua una dormienda.
~ Catullus
Close your eyes and stare into the dark. My father's advice when I couldn't sleep as a little girl.
~ Cecelia Ahern
Go to sleep, Asher. You've had a difficult day." "A difficult day? I didn't do a thing all day!" "For you, my husband, that is the most difficult kind of day you can have.
~ Chaim Potok
I walked back to the living room and found my father asleep on the sofa, his round mouth pursed and tightly shut, his breath filtering softly through his nose. A single fly, its armored back an oily, metallic green, was dancing a circle on his chin. What he'd brought home from work.
~ Chang-Rae Lee
The worst thing about sleepless nights was the feeling of running in a hamster cage, at least mentally. The same thoughts, over and over . . .
~ Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris
~ And I slept.
Now I get a very nice salary as a member of Congress, but when I'm in Washington, I sleep in my office.
~ Jason Chaffetz
I have to have eight hours a night. I feel that everything falls apart if you don't sleep. If I spend four hours memorizing dialogue but don't sleep, then the next day I will not be able to stand in front of the camera and say my lines. For me, sleep is the number one thing.
~ Cote de Pablo
Life isn't a 24/7 merry go round. If it were, you wouldn't get the 7 hours of sleep necessary to keep you fit and sane.
~ Jacqueline Leo
I have to fight the impulse to use my phone as an alarm clock rather than leaving it in another room. If I don't, I will wake up in the middle of the night and think, 'I'll check my messages. Or the number of my book on Amazon.'
~ Sherry Turkle
I tend not to eat lunch because a midday meal makes me want to sleep in the afternoon.
~ Leo Sayer
You don't face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight.
~ Reggie Jackson
I'm a night person. My best times are midnight to six, actually.
~ Rita Dove
I'm usually in bed by midnight.
~ Brad Goreski
I'm always late to bed - usually after midnight - but then I sleep for around ten hours.
~ Bonnie Tyler
Usually, I'm asleep by midnight.
~ Anita Dobson
This is my life! I'm not getting a lot of sleep, but I am getting a lot of frequent-flyer miles.
~ Lucas Hedges
But even before I was in the military, I was extremely jumpy when asleep.
~ Chris Kyle
When you're in bed and unable to sleep, the best thing to do is to go back to your breathing. Resting is almost as beneficial as sleeping, and you'll know that you're doing the best that you can. Bring peace to your breathing and your body so you can rest.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
When you're in bed and unable to sleep, the best thing to do is to go back to your breathing.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
He knelt and bent lower, till her breath warmed his face, and in a moment his cheek was in contact with hers. She was sleeping soundly, and upon her eyelashes there lingered tears...
~ Thomas Hardy