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Quotes About Sleep

Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams.
~ Stephen LaBerge
I heard that Stephen King doesn't sleep well, ... so I gues that he doesn't sleep well from his imagination. If I had the same imagination I won't sleep too!
~ Deyth Banger
To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.
~ Thomas Aquinas
On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.
~ Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
~ Elbert Hubbard
The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
~ Chanakya
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.
~ William Wordsworth
Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Rest, rest, rest, rest, rest. Nutrition is obviously very important, but rest is equally important. At rest is when your body is trying to recover.
~ Misty May-Treanor
Laughing, how can you fall asleep? It brings a state of no-mind and no-thought, and does not allow you to fall asleep.
~ Rajneesh
Hush! my dear, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessing without number Gently falling on thy head.
~ Isaac Watts
My friend says she's smart. She reads a book to fall asleep.
~ Nicholaa Spencer
I am no longer scared to close my eyes and dream
~ Vijay Bagha
When people sleep, others stay awake to effect changes in the world. Every other person wakes up in the morning to a totally different world
~ Gossy Ukanwoke
I love dipping into dreams and sinuously sinking into sleep. It's the freest place to be. The possibilities are limitless and my imagination becomes a weightless wonder.
~ Jaeda DeWalt
I can't stand when a meal is ruined. I have slept with many men, don't ask me their names, but I can't eat anything casually. Don't fuck with my food, I want to say to him.
~ Jami Attenberg
He tucked her in with a quote from Victor Hugo. '"Sleep in peace, God is awake.
~ Jan Karon
All people are children when they sleep. There's no war in them then . . . They . . . open their hands halfway, soldiers and statesmen, servants and masters. . . . If only we could speak to one another then when our hearts are half-open flowers Words like golden bees would drift in.
~ Jan Karon
May our sleep be deep and soft,' " he whispered, " 'so our work be fresh and hard.
~ Jan Karon
The poppy flower: A flower of eternal sleep, a narcotic to the wounded soul, a remembrance of the fallen soldier. —DB
~ Jan Moran
But if you use her psychological trick and view sleep as the beginning of the following day, it can be easier to slip into the sheets.
~ Jancee Dunn
Life is an absolute Dream... then I wake up.
~ Jane