Quotes About Sleep

His blood began to murmur in his veins, murmuring like a sinful city summoned from its sleep to hear its doom.

Hic cubat edilis. Apud libertinam parvulam.

Somehow sleep allows us to see clearly those very things that are obscured by the light of day.

Thinking at night isn't good for anybody.

Did you know that the hum of a car engine through the metal and seats is approximately in B-flat, the same as the hum of blood in the arteries of a pregnant woman? That's why children sleep so easily in the backseat of an automobile.

I wasn't a criminal, but I was genuinely insane. My greatest enemy is sleep. I see the men and boys I killed many years ago in a foreign land, and I'm filled with sorrow. Have you had those experiences, sir? Please tell me that is indeed the case and that you wish to get them out of your life. Can you do that for me, sir?

I feel myself drifting off to sleep. Do you have those moments when you surrender your worries and let go of the earth and float away to a place where the stars look like a highway of crushed ice? It's a safe place, in all probability the womb, surrounded by the humming of your mother's blood, a cloak that is invulnerable. That's where I find myself now.

The gift of Morpheus brought not only sleep but oblivion.

about voices that can cry out for help in our sleep.

Under the stars,I tried to sleep,but for once in my life couldn't.My mutant super power-the ability to nod off at at the drop of a hat,any time,anywhere-had deserted me.

He might be asleep, but even asleep he looked like he knew more than most guys awake

Late at night, when the hour is none, I dream the dreams of the damned.

Sometimes I dream of sleepiness, sometimes I feel like I'm alive.

they could sleep until midnight, when they would be awakened in

The girls can have the bed, Gazzy said. Iggy and I can sleep on the floor. Excuse me, sexist piglet? I said, raising my eyebrows. How about the two smallest people share the bed 'cause they'll fit . That would be you and Angel. Yeah, said Nudge Like, I'm too much of a cream puff to sleep on the floor?

I fell into a deep sleep tucked in that little cocoon, a deeper sleep than I might of had in years. Right up until someone kicked me and said Gotcha!

Time for bed." I held my fist out. One by one, my flock stacked theirs on top, and then we headed up into the trees to sleep the sleep of the innocent. Well, okay, maybe not so innocent. But the sleep of the much less guilty than others, for sure.

It was a pretty complete list. The kind of list one makes when one cannot fall asleep because one's thoughts keep swirling through one's brain like a bunch of sparrows on crack.

We all love each other, Ange, I said impatiently, hating this whole conversation. No, not like this, she went on relentlessly. Fang loves you.......My mouth dropped open. How does she know this stuff? Forget it! No one's getting married! I hissed. Not in New Hampshire or anywhere else! Not in a box, not with a fox! Now go to sleep, before I kill you! Oh yeah, like I got any sleep after that. - pg 35

A Poem By Maximum Ride How does one describe freedom, How can one call themselves free, How does one sleep at night knowing all the troubles that lay ahead, If one had a choice to be free or have freedom what does one pick, How does one even begin to describe the choices of being free, Freedom is choice, Freedom is happiness, Freedom is doing what you want, Freedom is to fly.

The low voice, smooth and full of menace, woke me from sleep that night. My body tightened like a longbow and I tried to jump up, only to be held down by a big booted foot on my throat.

even for a meth addict. She was sleeping

The sleep deprivation doesn't help. My eyes feel heavy these days, my movements lumbering, my brain fueled by adrenaline but unfocused, sloppy.

Mom wouldn't be home until late, and both Georgia and Bear were asleep by nine—Georgia because she's a kid, and Bear because he's always so tired after a long day of NOT working. I'm