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Quotes About Sleep

I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.
~ George R.R. Martin
Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.
~ George R.R. Martin
He found Podrick Payne asleep in a chair outside the door of the solar, and shook him by the shoulder. "Summon Bronn, and then tun down to the stables and have two horses saddled." (Tyrion). The squire's eyes were cloudy with sleep. "Horses". (squire) "Those big brown animals that love apples, I'm sure you've seen them. Four legs and a tail. But Bronn first." (Tyrion)
~ George R.R. Martin
When I sleep I turn into a wolf. Bran turned his face away and looked back out into the night. Do wolves dreams?
~ George R.R. Martin
Ned closed his eyes and opened them; it made no difference. He slept and woke and slept again. He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken promises. When he woke, there was nothing to do but think, and his waking thoughts were worse than nightmares.
~ George R.R. Martin
I need to sleep, but fear to dream.
~ George R.R. Martin
Troubled sleep was no stranger to him. He had lived his lies for fourteen years,
~ George R.R. Martin
It might have been minutes or it might have been hours; time slept when swords woke.
~ George R.R. Martin
The little shards of sleep that they allowed her turned into razors, slicing at her wits.
~ George R.R. Martin
Time slept when swords woke.
~ George R.R. Martin
So go to sleep, my little Brandon, my baby boy. You needn't fear. There are no monsters here.
~ George R.R. Martin
Ned closed his eyes and opened them; it made no difference. He slept and woke and slept again. He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping.
~ George R.R. Martin
A warrior who cannot sleep soon has no strength to fight.
~ George R.R. Martin
Some nights she drowsed, but never for more than an hour. One day, Melisandre prayed, she would not sleep at all. One day she would be free of dreams.
~ George R.R. Martin
In the field, he would sleep in the saddle oft as not, he claimed, so as to be well rested should he come upon a battle. Sun or storm, it made no matter. "A warrior who cannot sleep soon has no strength to fight,
~ George R.R. Martin
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
~ George Santayana
Men and women sleep not with each other but with the memories, the regrets, the hopes of unions yet to come. Our adulteries are internal; they deepen our aloneness.
~ George Steiner
Reality can only be illuminated by a ray of poetry. Everything is sleep around us.
~ Georges Braque
His mouth open, he fell asleep, because a man always falls asleep in the end. One weeps, one shrieks, one rages, one despairs, and then one eats and sleeps as if nothing had happened.
~ Georges Simenon
She decided that her wisest course would be to put him out of her mind. After reaching this conclusion she lay thinking about him until at last she fell asleep.
~ Georgette Heyer
Well," said Larry with dignity, "it may give you pleasure to be woken at half-past three in the morning by a pigeon who seems intent on pushing his rectum into your eye...
~ Gerald Durrell
Perchè? Perchè? Perchè se dormi, quando ti svegli sei cambiato. Sì, i cipressi neri sono pericolosi. Mentre dormi, le loro radici ti crescono nel cervello e te lo rubano, e quando ti svegli sei matto, con la testa vuota come uno zufolo».
~ Gerald Durrell
What a wine … like the blood of a dragon and as smooth as a fish … What a wine! When I came back the air was full of sleep, so here I am.
~ Gerald Durrell
The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
~ William Shakespeare