Quotes About Sleep

And as he feels himself falling asleep he has an insight he believes is important, which he hopes he will remember in the morning, although it is one of those thoughts that seldom survive translation to the language of daylight hours

A little tired," Diana admitted. "But mostly I'm frustrated. I've got a million questions, and every time I tried to get Colby to answer them last night he kept changing the subject." Brandon grinned. "He was more interested in making sure you and the baby were all right than in answering your questions. Besides, after we got you two down from that cave, you kept drifting off to sleep every few minutes.

Deep sleep is when you are asleep but not dreaming. Paradoxical sleep is the sleep in which you dream. So, only paradoxical thought is the thought in which you think. Is there, by analogy, a paradoxical state of death - a deep death and a death with dreams? It is evil that speaks evil: evil can ventriloquize.

When I make a film, it is a sleep in which I am dreaming.

My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I'm going to sleep.

I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.

Do you think that too, she said, that I have slept too long in the moonlight?

Rain, forever raining. Drown me in sleep. And soon.

I can't sleep,' he said. 'Let me lie with my head on your silver breast.

Snow is covering us. Close your eyes and sleep. Close your eyes and dream. This is one story. There will be another.

I ate, I drank, I wondered why love is so hard and life is so short. I went to sleep.

She was night-time and words were the dream.

Dreams were so tiring that she wondered how anybody ever dared to go to sleep at night.

So it comes to this; one doesn't need rest. Why bother about sleep if one isn't sleepy? That stands to reason, doesn't it? Wait a minute, there's a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable? …Ah, I see; it's life without a break.

He takes a few dazed steps, the waiters turn out the lights and he slips into unconsciousness: when this man is lonely he sleeps.

Love's a grand solace, isn't it, my friend? Deep and dark as sleep.

I would so like to let myself go, forget myself, sleep. But I can't, I'm suffocating: existence penetrates me everywhere, through the eyes, the nose, the mouth... And suddenly, suddenly, the veil is torn away, I have understood, I have seen.

During an intense period of lab work, the outside world vanishes and the obsession is total. Sleep is when you can curl up on the accelerator floor for an hour.

Being sleep-derived not only hurts you at work, it hurts your health. You need to value yourself enough to have good sleep hygiene.

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.

Maybe if we lie down our brains will work.

Work like an Arminian, sleep like a Calvinist.

In Winter the bare boughs that seem to sleep Work covertly, preparing for their Spring.

Workplace accidents with people who are sleep deprived or people who work shifts and they don't get the right amount of sleep during the day or at night.