Quotes About Sleep
J'ai rêvé que je dormais de mon dernier sommeil à côté d'elle, mon cÅ"ur immobile contre le sien, ma joue glacée contre la sienne
~ Emily Bronte
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I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
~ Emily Bronte
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I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: 'T will keep. I woke and chid my honest fingers,— The gem was gone; And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own.
~ Emily Dickinson
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Love can do all but raise the Dead I doubt if even that From such a giant were withheld Were flesh equivalent But love is tired and must sleep, And hungry and must graze And so abets the shining Fleet Till it is out of gaze.
~ Emily Dickinson
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IX. The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die.
~ Emily Dickinson
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The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die.
~ Emily Dickinson
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XXXVII. If I shouldn't be alive When the robins come, Give the one in red cravat A memorial crumb. If I couldn't thank you, Being just asleep, You will know I'm trying With my granite lip!
~ Emily Dickinson
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she uncurls danny's small fists and clasps his hand to hers and notices the way even in his sleep his fingers seem to know their way around hers; their hands together form their own organ, or an x, like on a map that insists you are here.
~ Emily Franklin
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Gonna see if Meg's here," Eddi whispered. "Go back to sleep." "I doubt if I can. But if you prefer it, I can lie here and be still." "Probably a good idea." Eddi grinned and kissed his nose. "She thinks you're full of nonsense." "She's lamentably ignorant of my better qualities." "You mean she hasn't seen you with your clothes off?" Eddi thought he blushed.
~ Emma Bull
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When Jack just rescued her Ma's, just succeeded doing the Great Escape: Want to go to Bed. They'll find us somewhere to sleep in a little while. No. Bed . You mean in Room? Ma's pulled back, she's staring in my eyes. Yeah. I've seen the world and I'm tired now.
~ Emma Donoghue
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I'd love to watch TV all the time, but it rots our brains. Before I came down from Heaven Ma left it on all day long and got turned into a zombie that's like a ghost but walks 'thump thump.' So now she always switches off after one show, then the cells multiply again in the day and we can watch another show after dinner and grow more brains in our sleep.
~ Emma Donoghue
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Want to go to Bed. They'll find us somewhere to sleep in a little while. No. Bed. You mean in Room? Ma's pulled back, she's staring in my eyes. Yeah. I've seen the world and I'm tired now.
~ Emma Donoghue
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She's asleep, she can´t be mad in her sleep, can she?
~ Emma Donoghue
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Sitting watching Anna's eyelids flicker some hours later, Lib found herself longing for the sleep she should have had that afternoon. But this was an old battle, and like any nurse, she knew she could win if she spoke to herself severely enough. The
~ Emma Donoghue
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In my experience of ward nursing, two shifts are more conducive to sleep than three." "But
~ Emma Donoghue
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This boy has negative charisma. He walks into a room and the oxygen starts to evaporate. I guess that's why girls sleep with him. They find his awfulness transfixing. He's like a lousy 1970's disaster movie that they can't bring themselves to turn off, even though it is making their life worse every minute they leave it on.
~ Emma Forrest
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I need to sleep, he thought wearily. But not to dream.
~ Eoin Colfer
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First to those universal principles I have spoken of: these you must keep at command, and without them neither sleep nor rise, drink nor eat nor deal with men: the principle that no one can control another's will, and that the will alone is the sphere of good and evil.
~ Epictetus
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Consciousness is the state of awareness, or sentience. It begins in the morning when we wake up, and it continues all day until we go to sleep again at night, or otherwise become unconscious.
~ Eric R. Kandel
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I love to go to sleep, when bed takes me like a lover
~ Erica Jong
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Je ne me réveille jamais entier ; des parts de moi restent engluées dans le sommeil.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
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We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
~ Erich Fromm
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The paradoxical situation with a vast number of people today is that they are half asleep when awake, and half awake when asleep, or when they want to sleep.
~ Erich Fromm
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her insomnia likely had roots in her fear of losing control.
~ Amanda Eyre Ward
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