Quotes About Sleep

Get at least eight hours of beauty sleep. Nine if you're ugly.

Somebody start talking about politics so I can fall back asleep...

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... without the satisfaction.

Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better . . . while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, "Did you sleep good?" I said "No, I made a few mistakes."

Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation.

Se facea ca ma faceam ca traiesc, Intr-o vale adanca, de somn intretaiata. Trezindu-ma, doar atat imi amintesc. Ochiul continua sa mi se bata.

y cuando te dormís y yo sigo leyendo entre cuatro paredes algo ocurre estás aquí dormida y sin embargo me siento acompañado como nunca.

I hated high school. Ugh. I couldn't wait until it was over so I could sleep in. In college, I made sure all my classes were in the afternoon. I hated getting up in the morning.

GWGs [girls with glasses] aren't happy being nomads; they need a safe place to put their glasses while they sleep.

In the beginning of his sleep, he cried out, "Flag!" It was not his own voice that called. It was a boy's voice. Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.

I know I could love you because at the end of the night I do not want to sleep and risk not meeting you in dreams. Open-eyed, I lie in bed and pretend to see you step toward me to end what has become too quiet, too dark, ever after dawn. from "I Know I Could Love You

Why is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies wake up like every two hours?

After the first week, I found I could trick my troubled mind into much-needed sleep. My method was to ask a question that had haunted my loneliness since I was a child: Why does God allow suffering? Isaiah supplied the answer: "I am the Lord, and there is no other; I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create evil; I the Lord do all these things.

41: SLEEP WHEN YOU'RE SLEEPY. CATS TAKE NAPS SO THEY'RE ALWAYS READY FOR ANYTHING.

Guess that's thirty-one pieces of silver you've got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas.

When caffeine gets to the receptors first, however, it doesn't let adenosine do its job. Caffeine doesn't actively keep us awake—it just blocks the natural mental brake.

I lay in bed that night, a first-time drunkard at seven years of age, pondering the punishment I knew would arrive on callused palms. In the forest, as if sensing my plight, wolves howled nocturnal laments. The magnificent lunar lullabies of my lupine brethren wooed me into a deep and cleansing sleep.

And into the close and mirrored catacombs of sleep We'll fall, and there in the faded light discover the bones, The dust, the bitter remains of someone who might have been                     Had we not taken his place.

Snowfall" Watching snow cover the ground, cover itself, cover everything that is not you, you see it is the downward drift of light upon the sound of air sweeping away the air, it is the fall of moments into moments, the burial of sleep, the down of winter, the negative of night.