Quotes About Sleep

Twenty meters away, Pasquale Tursi watched the arrival of the woman as if in a dream. Or rather, he would think later, a dream's opposite: a burst of clarity after a lifetime of sleep.

Then she tried to bore herself to sleep by thinking about things like yogurt and the structure of a gas pedal.

College students don't go to bed until at least three. It's a college requirement. You sign a contract when you're accepted.

I don't kill people. Perhaps it's just another inhibition to do away with it. Perhaps not. There's really no way of telling. It's possible I've just never been able to well up enough interest in any person to care long enough to end their life. I'd much rather avoid them altogether. Most of them. It's 4 A.M. and the sky is beautiful up and away from this room and this bed and the oppressive inevitability of sleep. I HATE SLEEP. But sleep always comes (that, or madness).

He longed for sleep, but it would not immerse him; that night the waters he sought for his repose were deep enough to wade in, but not to swim.

There was the focus of seeking pleasure, and the numbing effect, once they were finished, removing all specific thoughts from her brain. It ushered in the solid, dreamless sleep that otherwise eluded her.

It's a joy to work where I live, and come home and sleep in my own bed.

For me, work is so satisfying and it's giving me so much, it's nurturing me so much, that I think it sort of makes up for the sleep depravation.

I used to write in bed, starting when I woke up. I believe that creative work comes from our subconscious mind, so I try to keep the gap between sleep and writing as minimal as possible.

It is such an abundance of idiocy that you lose courage. That you lose hope. I don't want to lose hope. I get through every day. I'm pretty good. I work. I sleep. I sing. I walk.

You can't force your child to go to bed. Well, you can, but it doesn't work.

Quiet night, that brings Best to the labourer, is the outlaw's day, In which he rises early to do wrong, And when his work is ended dares not sleep.

But work a year and sleep an hour, and sleep a night and sing a day, And take a little wine and love, and when you feel religious—pray.

I'm old, and so busy with work, that I like to just stay home and get my sleep now. I try not to burn both ends of the candle.

At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night is a criminal offense.

The traditional techniques used in getting sleep aren't much effective any longer and our sleep techniques need to evolve as rapidly as our life style has, in order to cope with it.

If the world leaders can afford a 7 hours sleep, most of us probably can too.

Tonight is going to be a big night, like any other night, because certain 10 million Americans will not be able to sleep well tonight.

Our current bittersweet relationship with our sleep hasn't had a long history.

Our faster than ever evolution has resulted in our undermining certain incredibly important aspects of humanity—like our sleep.

Early to bed and early to work might get you a success, but late to bed and early to work will get you a glory.

I don't really like coffee, she said, but I don't really like it when my head hits my desk when I fall asleep either.

Very high altitude extreme night shift work is a class 2A carcinogen that may result in lifelong disabling sleep disorders, high cholesterol, radiation sickness and heart, lung and brain damage.

Research suggests that sea level adapted humans that work at the very high altitude 13, 796 feet summit of Mauna Kea may eventually develop sleep apnea and fatigue from the low oxygen environment.