Quotes About Sleep

A conscience at ease is a pillow on which we may sleep soundly even in a dungeon.

Le silence est aux bruits ce que l'ombre est a la lumière, ou le sommeil a la veille: une autre face indispensable.

Peace wasn't what I found when I did finally fall into sleep, though. A strange dream came instead. It wasn't one of mine, though, I could tell immediately. Maybe it belonged to someone in my family, or maybe to someone nearby. I had no idea. But wherever the dream came from, it swooped into my room on dark feathers, plucked me up like a baby, and carried me away to another world, where the peace of sleep did not exist.

I then fell asleep fast. Fell being the key word. Fell into the place called sleep, where we rest. Where we find peace for a little while.

dawn was thinking about breaking, at the stage where it was rolling about under the sheets after its alarm had gone off, weighing up the pros and cons of getting out of bed.

Not only won't she get hooked from a day or two of pacifier use, but as long as your little sucker is also getting her full share of feeds, enjoying a little between-meal soothing from a soothie is no problem at all. In fact, there are benefits to pacifier use—the AAP suggests that parents consider offering one during sleep to protect against SIDS

Getting your little one used to longer daytime naps may increase the chances for a better night's sleep for you.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth The best of all were never to be born.

I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

I didn't want to go to sleep knowing I would just wake up in the morning.

The little pilgrims lay down side by side and slept quietly until the morning.

Streets are like children, David thought; the small ones go to bed first.

maybe she grew one more in the night and that's why the night sleep was so deep, it was a matching pair of sleeps. —

White-flowered shrubs thickened around her and so did sleep; it directed her limbs. Lie down now, sleep said sweetly. Lie down. These are the secret hours of the day, the time that owls and bats take to themselves. The stars change places now; let them. You lie down.

To you who eat a lot of rice because you are lonely To you who sleep a lot because you are bored To you who cry a lot because you are sad I write this down. Chew on your feelings that are cornered Like you would chew on rice. Anyway life is something that you need to digest. From 'Rice' by Chun Yang Hee

Since neither of us needs sleep we take night buses, sharing earphones and listening to knitting podcasts. If anyone else on the bus notices anything about us they assume it's because they're drunk. I've

How dare people sleep, how dare they lie so blankly in the dark?

Then let the Son of God awaken from his sleep, and opening his holy eyes return again to bless the world he made. In error it began. But it will end in the reflection of his holiness. And he will sleep no more and dream of death.

Time is only an illusion produced by the succession of our states of consciousness as we travel through eternal duration, and it does not exist where no consciousness exists in which the illusion can be produced; but "lies asleep."

There's no animal that sleep-deprives itself like the human.

Though Duty's face is stern, her path is best: they sweetly sleep who die upon her breast.

Genetic variability evolves over many millennia, yet we know that the rates of anxiety disorders have skyrocketed in just the last century, not to mention the last decade. I believe this has to do partly with changes in lifestyle, diet, sleep and work patterns, and especially our relationship with stress. Our world is unquestionably complex