Quotes About Sleep

But immobilizing darts don't bring on sleep gently, like a good cup of tea; they knock out like a bottle of hard liquor straight up.

but she sits almost asleep, her head drooping to the left, out toward the sky, as if the sky were some stranger's shoulder to lean upon throughout a trip on a train.

He had thought on the train of sending his head to a laundry, it was true, but he had been drawn not so much to the idea of the laundered head as to that of the sleeping body. A very pleasant sleep, with head detached.

Ella, mientras dormía, pronunciaba palabras de amor con los dedos de los pies.

As old age approached, Eguchi would, on nights when he had difficulty sleeping, sometimes remember the woman's words, and count up numbers of women on his fingers; but he did not stop at anything so simple as picturing those he would not mind kissing. He would travel back over memories of women with whom he had had affairs. An old love had come back tonight because the sleeping beauty had given him the illusion that he smelled milk.

And then you may think of it as promiscuous, but the girl herself is asleep, and doesn't even know who she has slept with. The girl the other time and the girl tonight will never know a thing about you, and to speak of promiscuousness is a little…

But could there be anything uglier than an old man lying the night through beside a girl put to sleep, unwaking? Had he not come to this house seeking the ultimate in the ugliness of old age?

joy that was half a sob she fell upon her knees and clasped the little burro's neck. Noddle wearily flapped his long brown ears, wearily nodded his white nose; then evidently considering the incident closed, he went lazily to sleep.

So is blurred so is blurred in me what white-haired gentleman separated once and for all and said this is the subject this is the object we fall asleep with one hand under our head and with the other in a mound of planets our feet abandon us and taste the earth with their tiny roots which next morning we tear out painfully

In the day, he thought of nothing; at night, he slept heavily and dreamlessly. Face pink and fat, stomach full, brain empty, he was happy.

Moon's too pretty fuh anybody tuh be sleepin' it away.

It looked so quiet and peaceful around. But the stillness was the sleep of swords.

The bed was no longer a daisy-field for her and Joe to play in. It was a place where she went and laid down when she was sleepy and tired.

The sounds lulled Janie to soft slumber and she woke up with Tea Cake combing her hair

But stillness was the sleep of swords.

It's always hard for me to go to sleep after a show, just because you still have adrenaline going.

I wake up sometimes and roll over and sleep until 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

I'm looking for a job where I can sleep late and have my afternoons free with a lot of money. But those jobs seem to all be filled for some reason.

I mostly read on airplanes and right before sleep.

I sleep a lot in the airplanes. That is where I get majority of my sleep.

I'm that person: I will literally do everything to not get out of bed, so I have alarms set for every 15 minutes.

I don't use an alarm. I wake up naturally at 7 A.M.

I'm up around 11am to my alarm. Without it I'd sleep into the afternoon.

I only sleep about four or five hours a night. I read all night long.