Quotes About Sleep

I slept and dreamt life is beauty, I woke and found life is duty.

What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.

He sat by a gray window in the gray light in an abandoned house in the late afternoon and read old newspapers while the boy slept. The curious news. The quaint concerns.

His mind was betraying him. Phantoms not heard from in a thousand years rousing slowly from their sleep.

We pour water upon the child and name it. Not to fix it in our hearts but in our clutches. The daughters of men sit in half darkened closets inscribing messages upon their arms with razorblades and sleep is no part of their life.

And sleep that night on the cold plains of a foreign land, forty-six men wrapped in their blankets under the selfsame stars, the prairie wolves so like in their yammering, yet all about so changed and strange.

They say that women dream of danger to those in their care and men of danger to themselves. But I dont dream at all.

Es un país estupendo, ¿verdad? Sí que lo es. Duérmete. ¿Compañero? Dime. Así es como era entre los habitantes primitivos, ¿verdad? Sí. ¿Cuánto tiempo crees que te gustaría quedarte aquí? Unos cien años. Duérmete.

You'd be a woreout sumbuck. I'll tell you that. Think how good you'd sleep.

What are you going to do? Go to sleep. I mean long range. I'm talking long range.

He slept little and he slept poorly.

Talih hiç de böyle bir ÅŸey olmayabilirdi. Karanl?kta yatm?? ölülere haset etmediÄŸi geceler nadirdi.

Recurrences of dreams he'd had in the mountains came and went and the second night he woke from uneasy sleep and lay in the world alone.

People are interested in other people. But your unconscious is not. Or only as they might directly affect you. It's been hired to do a very specific job. It never sleeps. It's more faithful than God.

Let's go. You can sleep in the winter.

Sometimes, when you're sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry. But then the tears come back again all the same, and you fall asleep with the salty taste of them on your lips.

Oh, if you're a bird, be an early bird And catch the worm for your breakfast plate. If you're a bird, be an early bird But if you're a worm, sleep late.

Nichts verscheuchte böse Träume schneller als das Rascheln von bedrucktem Papier.

It was the middle of the night, and Bingo couldn't sleep. The ground was hard, but he was used to that… . His blanket was dirty and smelled disgusting, but he was used to that too. A tune kept going through his head, and he couldn't get it out of his mind. It was the Wendels' victory song. Michael de Larrabeiti, The Borribles Go for Broke

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking

Sleep was like wealth, elusive and for other people.

curled up, closed his eyes, and marched himself off, as if sleep were an actual place, like home, like the kitchen—a place a mouse could go to.

He fell into sleep then, as a body weighted with stones and wrapped in winding sheets falls into deep water.

The bright side of the planet moves toward darkness And the cities are falling asleep, each in its hour, And for me, now as then, it is too much. There is too much world.