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Quotes About Sleep

Não consigo dormir esta noite. Encontro-me perante algo novo, algo pleno de expectativas. O futuro imediato é demasiado tentador para poder dormir.
~ Charlie Chaplin
For there is nothing quite so terror-inducing as the loss of sleep. It creates phantoms and doubts, causes one to questions one's own abilities and judgement, and, over time, dismantles, from within, the body.
~ Charlie Huston
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
~ Charlotte Bronte
Am I to die?" I asked, and he stopped, raised our joined hands to his mouth and gently kissed my knuckles. "You are, my love, and in your sleep, you will become Death's bride.
~ Charlotte Featherstone
If in a relationship there is no tension [meaning no deepening of knowledge of self and others], it ceases to be a relationship and merely becomes a comfortable sleep state, an opiate - which most people want and prefer.
~ Charlotte Kasl
Als Edward, der Earl of Warwick, tief schlafend in seinem dunklen Schlafzimmer lag, nahm er unterbewusst das Geräusch schwätzender Frauen wahr. Aber sein Unterbewusstsein versicherte ihm gleichzeitig, dass so etwas völlig unwahrscheinlich wäre.
~ Cheryl Bolen
Avoid ending a scene with your character going to bed. Your reader will shut off the light and go to sleep, too.
~ Cheryl St.John
Some people are good at taking decisions. I am not one of them. Some people fall asleep quickly at night. I am not one of them either. It is 3 in the morning. I have tossed and turned in bed for two hours. I am to get married in fifteen hours. We have over 200 guests in the hotel, here to attend my grand destination
~ Chetan Bhagat
Bedtime stories are a doorway to dreams.
~ Terri Guillemets
You ever take a nap so good that you thought you missed the school bus. But it's Sunday… and you're 32.
~ @JazminsThoughts, tweet, 2019
Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.
~ Yiddish Proverb
In this pocket you will find A teensy, tiny tooth of mine. So while I sleep where dreams are made, Let's see if you can make a trade.
~ Author Unknown
But there was never child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1837
WEEKEND. — Light at the end of the tunnel. Extra sleep. Extra fun. Sanity break!
~ Terri Guillemets
In Winter, Mother Nature dims the lights, sleeps late, hides from the world, and regenerates. Winter is the hangover of seasons.
~ Terri Guillemets
The traditional sacrifices of a writer are soul and sleep.
~ Terri Guillemets
No sooner do I get interested than bang! goes my sleep, and I have to stop a week or ten days, during which my ideas get all cold again.
~ William James, 1886
If I'm trying to sleep, the ideas won't stop. If I'm trying to write, there appears a barren nothingness.
~ Terri Guillemets
If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don't remove it — I may be writing in my dreams.
~ Terri Guillemets
A Taurus works hard… and sleeps harder.
~ Jim Davis
Every shut-eye ain't sleep and every good-bye ain't gone.
~ African-American proverb
When sleep forsook my open eye, Who was it sung sweet lullaby, And rock'd me that I should not cry? My Mother.
~ Ann Taylor (1782–1866)
These were voted as the three sweetest words in the English language: 1. I love you. 2. Dinner is served. 3. All is forgiven. 4. Sleep 'til noon. 5. Keep the change. 6. Here's that five.
~ Pelican, 1939
People who snore always fall asleep first.
~ Author Unknown