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Quotes About Sleep

The seventeenth-century baby slept, as his nineteenth-century descendant does, in a cradle. Nothing could be prettier than the old cradles that have survived successive years of use with many generations of babies.
~ Alice Morse Earle
I get my best ideas in that state of suspended consciousness just before sleep.
~ Michael Bastian
I don't do much for skin. Just drink water, try to get proper sleep, exercise, sweat it out, keep it moisturised, and most importantly, clean. That's basically what I do.
~ Radhika Apte
To switch off, I will take a sleeping pill if I have to. I also found myself realigning things.
~ Emily Maitlis
During a movie, you lose all ability to focus on your own interests. Your life is in service. After that you just want to disappear, switch off the phone, and sleep and watch movies for a month.
~ Robert Richardson
I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can't switch off.
~ Harriet Walter
I don't really sleep until gone midnight anyway. It takes me a while to calm down before my mind allows me to switch off.
~ Theo Paphitis
Sleeping comes easy to me. As soon as I lay my head down, I fall asleep like flicking a switch.
~ Ricochet
When people think of chronic fatigue syndrome, they imagine someone simply sleeping a lot or who's always tired. The stigma from that name, and the name itself, desperately needs to change. In reality, sleeping doesn't mean rest at all, and it's never enough.
~ Stephanie Land
Sometimes I'm so tired, I look down at what I'm wearing, and if it's comfortable enough to sleep in, I don't even make it into my pajamas. I'm looking down, and I'm like, 'T-shirt and stretchy pants? Yup, that's fine. It's pajama-y, good night.'
~ Rebecca Romijn
L-dopa may account for the classical reports of sleep disturbances, vivid dreaming, and enhanced sexuality associated with fava bean eating.
~ Rebecca Rupp
Life is where you sleep and what you see when you wake up in the morning, and who you tell about your weird dream, and what you eat for breakfast and who you eat it with. Life isn't something that happens to you. It's something you make yourself, all the time.
~ Rebecca Stead
Life is where you sleep and what you see when you wake up in the morning, and who you tell about your weird dream, and what you eat for breakfast and who you eat it with.
~ Rebecca Stead
MISS U MIS U MIS U There's a shortage of S's and only two M's, so the last one is an upside-down W. I fall asleep to the sound of Dad murmuring into the phone behind his bedroom door. In the morning there's a message from Mom: ME TOO PICKLE
~ Rebecca Stead
That's what life is. Life is where you sleep and what you see when you wake up in the morning, and who you tell about your weird dream, and what you eat for breakfast and who you eat it with. Life isn't something that happens to you. It's something you make yourself, all the time." -Celeste
~ Rebecca Stead
She used to say she could taste sleep and that it was as delicious as a BLT on fresh French bread.
~ Rebecca Wells
She relaxed against him. "I need to sleep." "Good idea. Too bad we have to move to get under the covers." "And maybe put on some pants and a bra in case someone comes in." "I don't need a bra." "Funny.
~ Rebecca York
Retired people don't so much die as they let themselves fall asleep a bit at a time. They become passive and inactive and they forget they're alive.
~ Reed Farrel Coleman
It was Night. In most places, Night is a time for sleep, for calm, and for mystery. But not in New York City, where many things conspired every evening to murder the night.
~ Regina Doman
Als suffen werk is, dan ben ik geen harde werker. Als daarentegen slapen werk is, maak ik overuren.
~ Remco Campert
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
~ Rene Descartes
The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
~ Rene Descartes
I fear being shaken out of them because I am afraid that my peaceful sleep may be followed by hard labour when I wake, and that I shall have to struggle not in the light but in the imprisoning darkness of the problems I have raised.
~ Rene Descartes
I knew someone who used to go to sleep counting, not sheep, but people against whom he had grievances—bullies from childhood, kindergarten teachers, back to nannies even, bosses, employees, anybody awful up to the preceding day.
~ Renata Adler