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Quotes About Sleep

Kath asleep (and snoring with her mouth open!) in the tack room.
~ Jane Ayres
Drei Drachen kriechen in meinen Schlaf, die Seele woll'n sie lebendig zum Fraß. Feurigen Atems, gespaltener Zunge genießen sie jeden Mahl. Three dragons creep into my sleep, the spirit wanting life in its repast. Fiery breaths, flicking tongues relishing every meal.
~ Jane Jensen
A mist. A great mist. It covered the entire kingdom. And everyone in it - the good people and the not so good, the young people and the not-so-young, and even Briar Rose's mother and father fell asleep. Everyone slept: lords and ladies, teacher and tummlers, dogs and doves, rabbits and rabbitzen and all kinds of citizens. So fast asleep they were, they were not able to wake up for a hundred years.
~ Jane Yolen
Get some sleep." He gestured toward the bed. "Take the right side. It's less lumpy." She didn't budge. "That doesn't mean I'm sleeping on the left side," he added quickly. "You can have the bed all to yourself." "Don't be so noble.
~ Janet Dailey
I hate mornings. They start so early.
~ Janet Evanovich
There is no such thing as a good call at 7 AM. It's been my experience that all calls between the hours of 11 PM and 9 AM are disaster calls.
~ Janet Evanovich
we are herded to bed and the day's thin scenery topples revealing, for those who sleep, the painted props of sleep. The rest lie in the dark and wait for morning and hope, against certain belief, that what the voices tell them is not true.
~ Janet Frame
Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.
~ Janet Street-Porter
Now I lay me down to sleep. I pay the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pay the Lord my soul to take.
~ Janisse Ray
I'm not a very good sleeper. But you know what? I'm willing to put in a few extra hours every day to get better. That's just the kind of hard worker I am.
~ Jarod Kintz
I want to go to sleep in my time machine and wake up eight hours in the future.
~ Jarod Kintz
I find out a lot about myself by sleeping. Dreams, they are who I am when I'm too tired to be me.
~ Jarod Kintz
This morning my girlfriend was so loud in bed that we woke up the neighbors. So I told them to roll over and go back to sleep.
~ Jarod Kintz
In bed, I can go for hours. Oh yes, I love naps.
~ Jarod Kintz
Sleep is when the brain processes everything. It's when we delve deepest into that well.
~ Jason Arnopp
What's worse is that long hours, excessive busyness, and lack of sleep have become a badge of honor for many people these days. Sustained exhaustion is not a badge of honor, it's a mark of stupidity.
~ Jason Fried
Sleep is for the weak! Real A players only need four to five hours! Great accomplishments require great sacrifice! Bull. Shit.
~ Jason Fried
cómo se puede dormir tras la muerte de un ser querido y sin embargo se acaba durmiendo siempre—.
~ Javier Marías
es egoísta el insomnio.
~ Javier Marías
Awake,chaos:we have napped.
~ E.E. Cummings
You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I. But I come with a dream in my eyes tonight, And knock with a rose at the hopeless gate of your heart— Open to me! For I will show you the places Nobody knows, And, if you like, The perfect places of Sleep.
~ E.E. Cummings
Child of our time, our times have robbed your cradle. Sleep in a world your final sleep has woken.
~ Eavan Boland
The longed-for ships come empty home, founder on the deep And eyes first lose their tears and then their sleep.
~ Edith Wharton
four of us slept in the one bed, two at the bottom and two at the top. All of us tossed and turned and raved in our sleep.
~ Edna O'Brien