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Quotes About Sleep

For three weeks, we slept in the same bed together. We never had sex. We never kissed. We never took off more clothes than our pants. We just dreamed together. The conversations were brief. We didn't go on any dates. We didn't get to know each other. It was just a sleeping arrangement. To her, I was just a stuffed animal with a heartbeat.
~ Carlton Mellick III
Sad people are too sad to do anything but drink brandy and sleep all day.
~ Carlton Mellick III
Yo me quedé despierta viéndole dormir, quería ver qué cosas soñaba...
~ Carmen Laforet
Dormir era precisamente abrir los ojos, desde un paisaje inmóvil.
~ Carmen Martín Gaite
Dormir no es cerrar los ojos. La gente dice dormir y despertar, pero nunca sabe cuándo está dormida y cuándo no.
~ Carmen Martín Gaite
Deep inside me something says don't feel anything, go back to sleep, when you feel, it hurts. When you love, people die." —Ruth Mendenberg
~ Carol Matas
Somnus, god of sleep, please awaken us. While we sleep, ignorance takes over the world.… Take your spell off us. We don't have long before ignorance makes a coup d'état of the world." When
~ Carol S. Dweck
Make yourself sleep? Oh, don't think of it that way." Reed let her pass him. "It's an indulgence, not a duty. 'Nature requires five, custom gives seven, laziness takes nine, and wickedness eleven.' Try to be wicked.
~ Caroline Stevermer
Late into the night, I heard their wild music, music that didn't care who was in bed wanting to sleep. I knew the Gypsies were dancing, so lost in happiness that they forgot they lived in a gloomy Communist state.
~ Carolyn Marsden
It's not the content of out dreams that gives our second heart its dark color; it's the thoughts that go through our heads in those wakeful moments when sleep won't come. And those are the things we never tell anyone at all.
~ Carolyn Parkhurst
I lie on my bed and slip into a troubled, bereft sleep full of falling women and the barking of dogs always out of sight.
~ Carolyn Parkhurst
It's not the content of our dreams that gives our second heart its dark color; it's the thoughts that go through our heads in those wakeful moments when sleep won't come. And those are the things we never tell anyone at all.
~ Carolyn Parkhurst
And sitting here now, with all of Lexy's dreams in my lap, I realize there are things about her I will never know. It's not the content of our dreams that gives our second heart its dark color; it's the thoughts that go through our heads in those wakeful moments when sleep won't come. And those are the things we never tell anyone at all.
~ Carolyn Parkhurst
It is not the content of our dreams that gives our second heart is dark color: it's the thoughts that go through our heads in those wakeful moments when sleep won't come. And those are the things we never tell anyone at all.
~ Carolyn Parkhurst
I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep.
~ Carolyn Parkhurst
I have never been much at nonverbal communication. Additionally, I don't have much of an attention span, and what I lack in patience I make up for in ambivalence and an inability to sleep.
~ Carrie Fisher
No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap.
~ Carrie Snow
When a man can't sleep, he won't let anybody else sleep either. If he doesn't go off to dreamland the moment his head hits the pillow, he gets frightfully annoyed and won't stay in bed.
~ Carter Dickson
My slumbers--if I slumber--are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not: in my heart There is a vigil, and these eyes but close To look within; and yet I live, and bear The aspect and the form of breathing men.
~ George Gordon Byron
One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.
~ George Herbert
During my first few hours in Loja, I had good fortune to run into two young Mormon missionaries who let me sleep one night in their room and three further nights at their temple. My four days in Loja were somber ones, however, not so much because of the Mormons, who didn't try to convert me (at least not very strenuously), but because of the constant rain.
~ George Meegan
his snores sounded like ducks mating.
~ George R. R. Martin
Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.
~ George R.R. Martin
She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream. Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.
~ George R.R. Martin