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Quotes About Sleep

Has your child ever slept through the night? In lots of cases we have to start at Square One. We have to look at emotional history as well, and for demanding behavior: head-banging, pushing, slapping, biting, hair-pulling, kicking, throwing themselves on the floor, going rigid when being held.
~ Tracy Hogg
Because parents tend to allow more TV-watching and computer games in the third year, it's not surprising that nightmares go with the territory.
~ Tracy Hogg
Turn off the computer at least two hours before bedtime. The light of a computer screen right in front of your face late at night is similar enough to sunlight that it tricks your brain, making it difficult to fall asleep and disruptive to the quality of your sleep.
~ Travis Bradberry
And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity.
~ Umberto Eco
I felt dull and somnolent, for daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh: the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time. William
~ Umberto Eco
Ik voelde me verdoofd van de slaap, want de slaap overdag is als de zonde van het vlees: hoe meer je ervan hebt gehad, hoe meer je ervan zou willen hebben, en toch voel je je ongelukkig, voldaan en onvoldaan tegelijkertijd.
~ Umberto Eco
çünkü gündüz uykusu bedenin günah? gibidir. Ne denli çok iÅŸlenirse, o denli çok istenir.
~ Umberto Eco
kendimden geçip uykuya dald?m ve uzun uzun uyudum, çünkü gençlerin uykuya yaÅŸl?lardan daha çok gereksinimi vard?r; onlar bol bol uyudular; sonsuz uykular?na haz?rlan?yorlar ÅŸimdi.
~ Umberto Eco
dienos miegas yra lyg k?no nuod?m?: kuo daugiau jos esi patyr?s, tuo daugiau jos trokšti, bet jautiesi nelaimingas, kartu sotus ir alkanas.
~ Umberto Eco
I felt dull and somnolent, for daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh: the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.
~ Umberto Eco
Lanny had read an item to the effect that the Army was dealing with shell-shock cases by means of suggestion implanted by a phonograph record played while the patient slept. They had a device to make radio records audible under the pillows of airplane pilots in training, and when they woke up in the morning they knew their lessons.
~ Upton Sinclair
Like old men and like the majority of thinkers, he slept little.
~ Victor Hugo
But I thought: That is the sound of war. That sound of a steady, grinding machine made me think of guns; and then I thought of the crazed and half-starved village people against whom the guns were going to be used, people whose rags were already the colour of ashes. This was the anxiety of a moment of wakefulness; I fell asleep again. When
~ V.S. Naipaul
et iam nox umida caelo praecipitat suadentque cadentia sidera somnos
~ Vergil
Midnight The hours glide Like drops of water on a window pane Midnight silence Fear unrolls in the air And the wind hides at the bottom of the well OH It's a leaf We think the earth is going to end Time stirs in the shadow Everyone is asleep A SIGH Inside the house someone has just died
~ Vicente Huidobro
Sleep comes more easily than it returns.
~ Victor Hugo
Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.
~ Victor Hugo
Il dort. Quoique le sort fut pour lui bien étrange, Il vivait. Il mourut quand il n'eut plus son ange. La choise simplement d'elle-même arriva. Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va. He is asleep. Though his mettle was sorely tried, He lived, and when he lost his angel, died. It happened calmly, on its own. The way night comes when day is done.
~ Victor Hugo
Mother's arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies within.
~ Victor Hugo
The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven.
~ Victor Hugo
He sleeps. Although his fate was very strange, he lived. He died when he had no longer his angel. The thing came to pass simply, of itself, as the night comes when day is gone.
~ Victor Hugo
Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
~ Victor Hugo
She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.
~ Victor Hugo
The arms of mothers are made of tenderness; in them children sleep profoundly.
~ Victor Hugo