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Quotes About Sleep

I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me.
~ Donald Hall
I slept all day, face down in the pillow, a comfortable dead-man's float only remotely disturbed by a chill undertow of reality—talk, footsteps, slamming doors—which threaded fitfully through the dark, blood-warm waters of dream.
~ Donna Tartt
Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica.
~ J.G. Ballard
Most common health improvements after the 10-Day Green Smoothie Cleanse: • Weight loss (most lose 10–15 pounds when they stick to the regimen) • Increased energy • Mental clarity • Better sleep • Reduced cravings • Better digestion • Less bloating
~ Unknown
In possibly one of the cutest facts you will ever read, sea otters hold each other's paws whilst they are asleep so they don't drift apart from each other.
~ Jack Goldstein
one of the cutest facts you will ever read, sea otters hold each other's paws whilst they are asleep so they don't drift apart from each other. Elephant shrews are more closely related to elephants than they are shrews.
~ Jack Goldstein
In possibly one of the cutest facts you will ever read, sea otters hold each other's paws whilst they are asleep so they don't drift apart from each
~ Jack Goldstein
possibly one of the cutest facts you will ever read, sea otters hold each other's paws whilst they are asleep so they don't drift apart from each other.
~ Jack Goldstein
How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on? —Tom Waits
~ Jack Ketchum
Up here, if they found them, they were helpless. People don't look up, she thought. Melissa was sleeping now, but what if she woke and cried?
~ Jack Ketchum
A good idea, he thought, to sleep off to death. It was like taking an anaesthetic. Freezing was not so bad as people thought. There were lots worse ways to die…. Then the man drowsed off into what seemed to him the most comfortable and satisfying sleep he had ever known.
~ Jack London
Morning: Slept. Afternoon: Slept. Evening: Ate grass. Night: Ate grass. Decided grass is boring. Scratched. Hard to reach the itchy bits. Slept.
~ Jackie French
The sound of his sleep, the snores and sighs and small noices, is company.
~ Jackie Kay
They danced. For three long winter nights. They slept through the short times of light, curled in each other's company. She gave him gifts: a lapwing wrapped in feathers, beaded with frost, a bowl of bright rosehips.
~ Unknown
Emily said ... Well, I read that it's important to sleep. While you sleep, the hippopotamus in your brain replays things that happend during the day, e.g. what you studied. So therefore it remembers it for you.
~ Jaclyn Moriarty
Elsa's joke Where do baby apes sleep? In apricots!
~ Jacqueline Wilson
No one stops to think, though—that maybe there is a reason for the darkness. Maybe people have to be reminded of it—of its power. At night, we go to sleep against the darkness. And if we wake up before morning, a lot of times we're afraid. We need it all though—the darkness and the light.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
Each day, her sore and swollen body pressed against a hard wind blowing her own eyes closed. At night she went in and out of fitful sleeps, woke in the dark, sweaty and struggling for air. Where had the air gone?
~ Jacqueline Woodson
Who will wake up at the end of my dream?
~ Unknown
If you can bring some quality to the last moment of transition from wakefulness to sleep, that quality will continue through sleep, always. That's exactly what will happen with death also. If at the final moment a certain quality is brought in, that quality will continue.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
Ojalá te encuentre por aquí, en alguna calle del sueño. Es una gran alegría ésta de aprisionarte con mis párpados al dormir.
~ Unknown
Te besaría lentamente, apenas rozándote mis labios, y te diría cualquier cosa en voz baja, y me quedaría dormido a tu lado.
~ Unknown
in his frozen sleep, no one could hear his screams.
~ James A. Moore
Sleep, soft smiling, draws me unto her: and those receive me, who quietly treat me, as one familiar and well-beloved in that home: but will not, oh, will not, not now, not ever, but will not ever tell me who I am.
~ James Agee