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Quotes About Sleep

Only I thought that the Rip Van Winkle story was all wrong. You went to sleep for a long time, and when you woke up nothing whatsoever had changed. No matter how long you slept, it was the same.
~ Robert Penn Warren
Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have!
~ L.M. Montgomery
In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you
~ L.M. Montgomery
Good night, belovedest. Your sleep will be sweet if there is any influences in the wishes of your own.
~ L.M. Montgomery
One does not sleep well, sometimes, when one is twenty-nine on the morrow, and unmarried, in a community and connection where the unmarried are simply those who have failed to get a man.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Do you know what I think about the new moon, teacher? I think it is a little golden boat full of dreams. And when it tips on a cloud some of them spill out and fall into your sleep.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I came to the conclusion, Marilla, that I wasn't born for city life and that I was glad of it. It's nice to be eating ice cream at brilliant restaurants at eleven o'clock at night once in a while; but as a regular thing I'd rather be in east gable at eleven, sound asleep, but kind of knowing even in my sleep that the stars were shining outside and the wind was blowing in the firs across the brook.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Oh, I don't wonder babies always cry when they wake up in the night. So often I want to do it too.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Anne? said Dacy sitting up in bed and propping his chin on his hands, Anne, where is sleep? People go to sleep every night, and of course I know it's a place where I do things I dream, but I want to know where it is and how to get there and back without knowing anything about it . . . and in my nighty too. Where is it?
~ L.M. Montgomery
And when it tips on a cloud some of them spill out and fall into your sleep.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Listen to the trees talking in their sleep," she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. "What nice dreams they must have!
~ L.M. Montgomery
it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine, don't you think?
~ L.M. Montgomery
No había lágrimas, solo el mismo dolor horrible de pena y tristeza que siguió haciéndole daño hasta que se quedó dormida
~ L.M. Montgomery
When I wake up in the night and cannot go to sleep again, remarked Susan, who was knitting and reading at the same time, I pass the moments by torturing the Kaiser to death. Last night I fried him in boiling oil and a great comfort it was to me, remembering those Belgian babies.
~ L.M. Montgomery
You needn't be a mite afraid to sleep in that bed. I aired the sheets today Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and Marilla didn't know I did it and gave them another airing Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and Millie didn't know either of us did and gave them a third.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Bence ay, rüyalarla dolu alt?ndan küçük bir tekne. Ve teknenin burnu bir buluta deÄŸdiÄŸinde, rüyalardan baz?lar? tekneden dökülüp senin uykular?na girer.
~ L.M. Montgomery
She was too happy to sleep just yet.
~ L.M. Montgomery
It's lovely in the woods now. All the little wood things—the ferns and the satin leaves and the crackerberries—have gone to sleep, just as if somebody had tucked them away until spring under a blanket of leaves. I think it was a little gray fairy with a rainbow scarf that came tiptoeing along the last moonlight night and did it.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Getting up early and feeling awake was the one skill he had never truly perfected - he got up, of course, but it never felt natural.
~ Larry McMurtry
He remembered the cold nights in their Arkansas cabin when he was a boy—how his mother piled quilts on top of him and his brothers, how peaceful it seemed under the quilts. Then it seemed like sleep was one of the most wonderful things in life.
~ Larry McMurtry
A sleeping man would miss the best of the evening, and the moonrise as well.
~ Larry McMurtry
A man that sleeps all night wastes too much of life.
~ Larry McMurtry
As we approached the forty-five-day mark, we heard that it was an ancient tradition at that monastery to spend one week in the middle of the ninety days without any sleep at all.
~ Larry Rosenberg
Back home again, Theodosia had fixed herself a cup of chamomile tea, ideal for jangled nerves or those times when sleep proves elusive. Then she sat down in front of her computer for a quick bit of Internet research.
~ Laura Childs