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Quotes About Sleep

I dreamed and woke up to a gray dawn, saw it, sniffed (because I had seen all the horizon shift as if a sceneshifter had hurried to put it back in place and make me believe in its reality), and went back to sleep, turning over. It's all the same thing, I heard my voice say in the void that's highly embraceable during sleep.
~ Jack Kerouac
Goodnight gentle readers, sleep; sweet music to your dreams.
~ Jack Kerouac
It was sad to see his tall figure receding in the dark as we drove away, just like the other figures in New York and New Orleans: they stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned. Where go? what do? what for?—sleep. But this foolish gang was bending onward.
~ Jack Kerouac
He was very lonely, he wanted to get back to New York. It was sad to see his tall figure receding in the dark as we drove away, just like the other figures in New York and New Orleans: they stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned. Where go? what do? what for?—sleep. But this foolish gang was bending onward.
~ Jack Kerouac
Bem, mais um dia e mais um dólar, boa noite.
~ Jack Kerouac
You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?" —Tom Waits
~ Jack Ketchum
I never liked sleeping in the dark. I have, like, twinkle stars around my bed, so it's not so bad.
~ Millie Bobby Brown
I was 16. I went, auditioned, and then they called me and they were like 'can you fly to Korea within two months?' And then my whole life changed. In Australia, I dropped out of school. I had never even imagined myself living apart from my family. I hadn't even slept more than two weeks out of home.
~ Rose
Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.
~ Dean Rusk
I have a two-year-old at home, and my whole life is - besides revolved around keeping this little person alive, just watching them on the stairs and eating food and everything of every minute of every day - you plan what time you're going to bed so that you can be your best self first thing in the morning.
~ Rosemarie DeWitt
Sleep is probably the most important biological function. If you don't get enough sleep, you can get psychiatric illnesses and all types of different illnesses.
~ Carl Hart
I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.
~ Rodney King
I take books on learning to bed - music theory, colour theory - and usually my brain thinks, 'Um, I think I'd rather turn off,' than learn something.
~ Toyah Willcox
My biggest hobby is playing golf, which I really enjoy. Now when I am lying in bed at night, unable to sleep, I find myself thinking about my golf swing. I'm also involved in the Tampa Bay chapter of First Tee.
~ Vinny Testaverde
I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days, and I was unable to sleep most nights.
~ April Winchell
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.
~ Homer
Men grow tired of sleep love singing and dancing sooner than of war.
~ Homer
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
~ Francis Bacon
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
~ Aeschylus
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem
~ Khalil Gibran
Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.
~ Heraclitus, Fragments
Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against their will Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.
~ Aeschylus
Sleep is a mirror of life in which can be seen the reflection of death.
~ Wasif Ali Wasif
Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
~ Jack Kerouac