Quotes About Sleep

Sleep hath no enemy like an unrelenting cat.

I could lay here and read all night. I am not able to fall asleep without reading. You have the time when your brain has nothing to do so it rambles. I fool my brain out of that by making it read until it shuts off. I just think it is best to do something right up until you fall asleep.

The bed in which we spend a third of our lives functions as a kind of protective haven for the true self, the subconscious refuge from the assault of the external world. The bed becomes the restorative womb, where the imagination is nurtured while our resting bodies are safe.

Murder? You mean he's dead?" "No. He's resting comfortably," I said. "People always sleep best with their heads at a ninety-degree angle. He looks comfortable, doesn't he?" (Paige & Elena)

We are dreamers, shouting out in our sleep, pilgrims lost in a forest of symbols where no man can say with certainty who he is.

Do AIS dream in electric sleep? He hoped it had nanosecond nightmares.

Conform unui str?vechi obicei oriental, trezirea din somn nu trebuie s? se produc? brusc, deoarece se consider? c?, în timpul somnului, sufletul se plimb? în alte lumi È™i, de aceea, are nevoie de timp pentru a se reîntoarce încet în trup.

In fireworks are released, all the explosive pyrotechnics of a dream. The inflammable desires, dampened by day under the cold water of consciousness, are ignited at night by the libertarian matches of sleep, and burst forth in showers of shimmering incandescence. These imaginary displays provide a temporary relief.

that God "giveth his beloved sleep" (Ps. 127:2).

Everything seems asleep, and yet going on all the time. It is a goodly life that you lead, friend; no doubt the best in the world, if only you are strong enough to lead it!

I tried to lure sleep to me, but she slowly shook her raven tresses and would not come back.

People headed off to bed earlier than usual, no doubt exhausted by watching the crew work all day.

If the truth is inside, And the form is outside, What is the truth of sleep?

Let's go to Brunch. What a great idea! Why would you want to sleep in on a Sunday when you can go pay $18 for eggs?

You make yourself go to sleep. You just tell yourself it's a dream.

Lo que sí, debía de estar soñando como nunca. Uno sueña más en camas ajenas que en la suya, porque tiene más perturbaciones físicas que verosimilizar.

Many things — such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly — are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

It [Joyce's "Ulysses"] plays on the reader's sympathies to his own undoing unless sleep kindly intervenes and puts a stop to this drain of energy. Arrived at page 135, after making several heroic efforts to get at the book, to "do it justice", as the phrase goes, I fell at last into profound slumber.

She lay brooding in the dark for hours. Occasionally, she could hear a whoop or laugh from the direction of the campfire. Danielle's breathing got deeper and she slept the sleep of the dead and Gracie wished she'd gotten that snake from Dakota. She'd never hated her father before.

He knew he wouldn't sleep. Couldn't. The things Larry had told him swirled around the dark ceiling, darting in and out of his consciousness. He hoped strands of what he knew would somehow miraculously connect and he'd sit bolt upright with an epiphany and suddenly know the connections as well as the answers. Didn't happen.

He came to read; two or three books are lying open: history and poetry. But after just ten minutes of reading he lets them drop. There on the sofa he falls asleep. He truly is devoted to reading- but he is twenty-three years old, and very handsome. And just this afternoon, Eros surged within his perfect limbs and on his lips. Into his beautiful flesh came the heat of passion, and there was no foolish embarrassment about the form that pleasure took..

You sure can sleep anywhere," she said. "It's freezing in here." "I was tired. See, I slept in Booboo's doghouse with him last night." "You're kidding! You really slept in a doghouse?...You are a nut cake, Willie." He wanted to ask her if that was better than a goofball, but for once he didn't feel like joking.

Sleep was a bumpy road for Willie that night. In between dozing and leaning out the window to plead with Booboo to be quiet, Willie was kept awake by his dog's howls, yowls, whines, whimpers, barks, yips, and moans. Booboo's range of loud noises was impressive.

Era domingo. Se fumasse, acenderia agora um cigarro para ficar com ar de pessoa distraída. Mas assim tão sem vícios e portanto sem ter sobre o que derramar a distração que desejava, ai - assim ficava tão solta. Perdi até o sono, suspirou, como se o sono fosse a sua última reserva de segurança. E estou compreguiça de trabalhar e tenho vontade de falar uma palavrão, que merda também.