Quotes About Sleep

No one wants to give up time with their family or entertainment, so they give up sleep instead.

You dream every night. Every person in the world, even if they don't remember, is dreaming every night.

I give myself a non-negotiable eight-hour sleep opportunity every night.

I sleep three or four hours every night, but I wouldn't change anything.

Step one to preventing PPD is to find time to sleep after giving birth, no matter how euphoric you feel.

the simple task of getting dressed and undressed was a real strain, but nothing could compare with her addiction to deep sleep...

The time between midnight and dawn when most people die, when sleep is deepest, when nightmares are most palatable. It is the hour when the sleepless are pursued by their sharpest anxieties, when ghosts and demons hold sway. The hour of the wolf is also the hour when most children are born.

Sleep, how soon I too shall be sent— For your sake— my dearest, my damnable.

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.

I'm still tired and sleeping all the time and still not enough. My arms are just hanging down at my sides and I don't feel like doing anything at all. And I don't have any desire — for nothing, not money, not my mother, not Therese.

In living this way, we discover new opportunities for comfort and enjoyment. Where the younger person may have tossed and turned throughout a sleepless night, the older man or woman can possibly feel the pleasure that comes from lying on a good mattress, resting one's weary bones and overcharged intellect, whether or not one sleeps throughout the hours of darkness.

'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain,"You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again."

Hush! my dear, lie still and slumber,Holy angels guard thy bed!Heavenly blessings without numberGently falling on thy head.

Bed is the poor man's opera.

In the morning you wake from one bad dream and another begins.

To fall asleep like a bird. To have a wing you could stick your head under, a world of branches suspended above the earthly world, barely glimpsed down below, muffled and remote. Once you begin rejecting your present state, there is no knowing where you can arrive.

Dalle tende a cono si levava il concerto dei pesanti respiri addormentati. Cosa fosse quel poter chiudere gli occhi, perdere coscienza di sé, affondare in un vuoto delle proprie ore, e poi svegliandosi ritrovarsi eguale a prima, a riannodare i fili della propria vita, Agilulfo non lo poteva sapere e la sua invidia per la facoltà di dormire propria delle persone esistenti era un'invidia vaga, come di qualcosa che non si sa nemmeno concepire.

So, with my thoughts following my father's footsteps through the countryside, I fell asleep; and he never knew that he had had me so close to him.

Domani, Lettore e Lettrice, se sarete insieme, se vi coricherete nello stesso letto come una coppia assestata, ognuno accenderà la lampada al suo capezzale e sprofonderà nel suo libro; due letture parallele accompagneranno l'approssimarsi del sonno; prima tu poi tu spegnerete la luce; reduci da universi separati, vi ritroverete fugacemente nel buio dove tutte le lontananze si cancellano, prima che sogni divergenti vi trascinino ancora tu da una parte e tu dall'altra.

What does your sorrow do while you sleep? -It's awake and waiting. And when it loses patience, it wakes me up.

My father always said there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect.

Sleep tight, ya morons!

Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.

Sleep is the best meditation.