Quotes About Sleep

All the people I ever admired and respected led balanced lives—studying hard, partying hard, as well as being involved in activities and getting a decent amount of sleep each night. I really think this is the only logically defensible way of doing things." Chris, a straight-A college student

A reinar, fortuna, vamos; no me despiertes, si duermo, y si es verdad, no me duermas.

Segismundo; que aun en sueños no se pierde el hacer bien.

I try to sleep myself, but my occupied mind is holding my tired body hostage.

In his parochial school, the nuns had advised him and his classmates that they should sleep each night on their backs with their arms crossed on their chests, hands on opposite shoulders- a presumably holy posture that, not incidentally, made masturbation impossible.

Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind. If that's what dying is like, I wouldn't mind that at all.

Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams.

sleeping late, like unconsciousness, happened for a reason. Because your body knew you couldn't handle being awake.

Dormir sin soñar. He oído hablar sobre el sueño de los muertos. ¿Será así la muerte? ¿Como el sueñecito más agradable, cálido y profundo del mundo, un sueño sin fin? En ese caso, no me importaría. Si morir es así, de verdad que no me preocuparía en absoluto.

With that, Adam was placed into a deep sleep, his side wounded, and from that open wound was brought forth a soft-glowing bone.

I hope you haven't packed those ratty flannel pajamas of yours," she said. "You probably won't need anything to sleep in, anyhow." Elle stood up, picked up a pad of Post-it notes from the desk, and threw it. "He's broken all to bits. Give it up. He's an invalid! " Carlie laughed as the note pad bounced off the door frame. "He's a cowboy, honey. Nothin' ever keeps them down for long.

Lord, this is an huge rayn!This were a weder for to slepen inne!

And smale foweles maken melodye,That slepen al the nyght with open yë,(So priketh hem nature in hit corages);Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages.

Under ancient cypress trees, weeping dreams are harvested from sleep.

The dark eagles, sleep and death, Rustle all night around my head: The golden statue of man Is swallowed by the icy comber Of eternity. On the frightening reef The purple remains go to pieces, And the dark voice mourns Over the sea. Sister in my wild despair Look, a precarious skiff is sinking Under the stars, The face of night whose voice is fading.

Not your dark poisons again, White sleep! This fantastically strange garden Of trees in deepening twilight Fills up with serpents, nightmoths, Spiders, bats. Approaching stranger! Your abandoned shadow In the red of evening Is a dark pirate ship Of the salty oceans of confusion. White birds from the outskirts of the night Flutter out over the shuddering cities Of steel.

Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty I woke and found that life was duty.

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

Do you want the truth or the politically correct version? The truth is that I go plastic, it's so much easier. And I like to put the bags over my head at night when I sleep, which I think all the kids at home should try. Kidding!!

The whole cosmos is in a man's brains—as much of it, at least, as a man's brains will hold; perhaps it is nowhere else. And when sleep relaxes the will, and there are no earthly surroundings to distract attention—no duty, pain, or pleasure to compel it—riderless Fancy takes the bit in its teeth, and the whole cosmos goes mad and has its wild will of us.

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.