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Quotes About Sleep

It's only a matter of time, Indianyou can't sleep with the river forever.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
Sleep is harder to reach and thinner, and sleeping is no longer the Drop into the black pit all oblivion until the alarm clock, no, sleep is thin and fitful and full of memories and reminders and the dark is never dark enough.
~ lessing doris
When she looked back the whole thing had a queer, unreal feeling to it, but then again you often get a queer, unreal feeling when you stay up till four and get up at seven.
~ Lev Grossman
The bus was thick with resignation, like a prison bus. Some kids slept. Others—the boys mostly—seemed to actually be stimulated by the atmosphere of despair; they ran feral, like being on a school bus meant they were in international waters.
~ Lev Grossman
We have our whole lives ahead of us and all I want to do is take a nap.
~ Lev Grossman
I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.
~ Lewis Carroll
I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.
~ Lewis Grizzard
I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married.
~ Lewis Grizzard
The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.
~ Donald Knuth
I balance my hormones with bioidentical hormones, I eat organic, I take supplements as determined by lab work, I sleep eight hours nightly, I use organic cosmetics and green household cleaners, and I avoid toxins as best I can.
~ Suzanne Somers
I used to sleep nude - until the earthquake.
~ Alyssa Milano
People are impressed with me - because I can sleep for just 45 minutes - I'm used to it.
~ Miley Cyrus
New parents will feel that euphoric high where they feel like their mind is racing and they can't sleep. But its important to take quiet moments when you can. Even if you can t get a full sleep, just resting and calming yourself can be so useful.
~ Jo Frost
I believe the reason we sleep is not just to allow our body to rest but that it is to allow this inner wisdom to speak to us through symbols. This includes the body or somatic problems as well as psychological ones. Dreams and drawings are useful in diagnosing physical conditions.
~ Bernie Siegel
The fact that we don't have that biologic pressure to have highly polyphasic sleep, I think, probably tells us something in terms of, truly, whether it's useful or not.
~ Matthew Walker
The young are in great danger. Much evil results from their light and trifling reading. Much time is lost which should be spent in useful employment. Some would even deprive themselves of sleep that they might finish some ridiculous love story.
~ Ellen G. White
In my Scandinavian-American family, we were conditioned never to sit, at least not comfortably. I was endlessly going back to work. We longed for the fleeting respite of being useful and regarded sleep as a reward for exhaustion, always to be deferred until after the sun goes down.
~ Hope Jahren
Shorter daylight hours can affect sleep, productivity and state of mind. Light therapy, also known as phototherapy, may help. It uses light boxes emitting full-spectrum light to simulate sunlight.
~ Andrew Weil
You hear so much awful stuff before you have a kid, like you'll never sleep again, we always knew it would be utter garbage. We're pretty relaxed people, the less stressed you are the more easy you'll find parenting.
~ Spencer Matthews
Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go.
~ Sylvia Plath
I know how valuable relaxation is for us all, especially in trying times, so I couldn't be more glad to lend my voice to a sleep story.
~ Rege-Jean Page
Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?
~ Christine Baranski
You'll also be pleased to know that no resident has been eaten in their sleep here for almost thirty-seven years.
~ Jasper Fforde
Constance sent me a reply,' I said. 'Your poem went down really well.' 'That's a huge weight off my shoulders, Red. I hardly slept a wink last night worrying whether you two would fins the unhappiness you deserve.
~ Jasper Fforde