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Quotes About Sleep

day sleeper. solicitors will be eaten.
~ Kim Harrison
The sound of his hard-soled shoes on the street faltered. "You live in a church?" My eyes narrowed. "Yeah. But I don't sleep with voodoo dolls." "Huh?" "Never mind.
~ Kim Harrison
Nature wasn't for us to rise above. It was for us to sink into; to sleep upon and go bootless, and in silent protest to walk the finest rugs and fanciest tile and leave our naked, muddy footprints as the signatures of new beginnings.
~ Kim Heacox
Sleep, memory, sleep, body; fall thankfully into the moment, and dream.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Many years before, he had learned you could not trust anything you thought between two and five a.m.; in those dark hours the brain was deprived of certain fuels or functions necessary for right mentation. One's thoughts and moods darkened to a sometimes fugilin black. Better to sleep or, failing that, to discount in advance any thought or mood from those hours and see what a new day brought in the way of a fresh perspective.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Fall has arrived and has already begun to put everything into a deep sleep; flies and other insects have suffered their first setback, and up in the trees and down on the ground you can hear the sounds of struggling life, puttering , ceaselessly rustling, laboring not to perish.
~ Knut Hamsun
Mens gryten koker lægger jeg mig litt og ser på bålet og sovner. Jeg tar min middagssøvn før maten. Og når jeg våkner er gryten kokt, det lukter kjøt og tyri i gammen.
~ Knut Hamsun
His tone dripping condescension, Lothaire crooned, "Ah children, it's not yet story time." He closed his eyes and turned away, saying over his shoulder, "To anyone who contemplates even nearing me while I sleep: I will garrote you with your own viscera.
~ Kresley Cole
I still don't see why we couldn't sleep in that cave," Mari said as MacRieve led her out into the night. "Because my cave's better than their cave.
~ Kresley Cole
As he slept, his heartbeat returned to slow and steady, lulling her. Before she joined him, she decided that she never wanted to sleep without that sound again.
~ Kresley Cole
Crow, are you awake?" "Why do kids ask that when they know you're not?" She cracked open her bleary eyes. "No. Really.
~ Kresley Cole
Sleep is not, with me, a mere switching off: it is a very positive pleasure to be supped and savoured with expertise. It was a good night; sleep pampered me like a familiar, salty mistress who yet always has a new delight with which to surprise her jaded lover.
~ Kyril Bonfiglioli
It must be inconvenient to be made of flesh,' said the Scarecrow thoughtfully, 'for you must sleep, and eat, and drink. However, you have brains, and it is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly.
~ L. Frank Baum
I can tell the time, though, by speak-ing, and as I nev-er sleep I can wak-en you at an-y hour you wish to get up in the morn-ing.' 'That's nice,' said the little girl; 'only I never wish to get up in the morning.
~ L. Frank Baum
Dear Diary, Oh, it's all too much to explain and you wouldn't believe it anyway. I'm going to bed. Bonnie
~ L.J. Smith
I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
Day and NightThe night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
No man is greater than his respect for sleep.
~ Ogden Nash
I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.
~ Val Kilmer
I'm a cat. I respect the sanctity of sleep.
~ Rick Riordan
Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.
~ Conor Oberst
She press'd his hand in slumber; so once more He could not help but kiss her and adore.
~ John Keats
There are definite advantages to single beds." He sat up abruptly and arranged her legs around his waist. "Makes cuddling mandatory.
~ Cindy Gerard, To the Brink
As I lay me down to sleep, this I pray. That you will hold me, dear. Though I'm far away, I whisper your name into the sky. And I will wake up happy.
~ Sophie B. Hawkins