Quotes About Sleep

What was life has crumbled. What was form, now falls away. Mortal chains unbind and the soul s free. May you find your way to the ancestors. May you find your path to the gods. May your bravery and courage be remembers in song and story, May your parents be proud, and ma our children carry your birthright. Sleep, and wander no more.

The darkness drops again but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

The rain is speaking quietly, you can sleep now. Near my bed, the rustle of newspaper wings. There are no other angles. I'll wake up early and bribe the coming day to be kind to us.

no one sleeps more beautifully than you. But i am afraid that you will waken just now, and touch me with an indifferent glance, lightly passing, and commit the murder of beauty.

Shutting my eyes, I dreamed in formulas.

Final things are for children, because infinity scares children, and it is important that children sleep peacefully at night.

And he needed to imagine that someone must love him, within these numberless houses, so that he could sleep, so that he could wake up.

Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.

Night for those sound sleepers was a cocoon against time. For me, I wanted to believe, it was even better. Time, at night, was my possession, not the other way around.

out of any world; each world is rimless. —Amy Leach, Things That Are She had always enjoyed waking people who were asleep; and indeed it is as great an alteration to the state of a fellow-creature that we can make short of killing them or giving birth to them. —Rebecca West, This Real Night

geceleri yata?a uzan?r ama uyuyamazd?m. nefret edecek birsürü ?ey gelirdi akl?ma, ama sonunda yine kendimden nefret ederdim.

This "me" of ten years before lay down amid the leaves and long grass and slept for two whole hours. During this time a few ants crawled up my leg, but even in my deep sleep my finger accurately flicked them off. I felt as if I had come to a shore, and the echoing shouts of an old man poling a bamboo raft seemed to reach my ears from far away. I awakened from my dream, and

If mosquitoes buzzed in our ears and disturbed our sleep, we knew how to kill the mosquitoes; but if a thought buzzed in our mind and kept us awake at night, most of us did not know how to kill the thought.

Unknowing, let us sleep. Chest against chest, Our breathing mingled, hand in hand without dreams.

Sleeping is forgetting and forgetting is peace.

At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night is a criminal offense.

People who go to bed with itchy bums wake up with smelly fingers

Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody mentions it, today. If it happened yesterday, though, you can nod or chuckle, as the case may be. You've crossed through nothingness or dream to another island in Time.

Everything is only a dream.

Some children benefit from an extra hour of sleep when they are going through regressions. Often they need more rest time to help them to cope better. After finding that an earlier bedtime works over a few cycles, children will often volunteer that they need an earlier bedtime when they are going through hard times.

It took Molly a long time to get to sleep. She kept thinking of all the exciting things that had happened. And she had a feeling that the excitement wasn't over. The Randalls weren't sitting on the sidelines of the American Revolution any longer. Now they were part of the war, too!

He glanced drowsily at Laura and Mitchell eating their strawberries in the sunshine and found himself about to fall asleep. It was an odd sensation, 'to find himself' about to fall into sleep. As if he could find himself anywhere at any time.

They are spirits from a dying world knotting our hair in sleep we worked hard to buy.

I nostri rifugi sono meno ambiziosi. Il sonno, giustamente detto riparatore, ne fa parte: ogni sera, spegnendo la luce, riguadagniamo l'utero e cerchiamo di rimediare alla catastrofe che ci ha espulso dal recinto divino.