Quotes About Sleep

How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

Dreams were not messengers from the spirit world. They were simply the detritus of the brain's random firings during REM sleep.

She could stay out all night without feeling the least bit tired, but when she first awoke she felt like a slug. And

The need for sleep could be a terrible burden, but she was glad sleep existed. If it didn't, one would never get any real downtime. This way, no matter what happened the night before, you could wake up and feel like you had a new lease on life, a clean slate, that a chapter had ended and a new one had begun.

Our desire for sleep, like our desire for food, obeys a law of satiation. The attempt to circumvent this law will cause impaired mental and physical performance.

The most common complaint heard by primary care physicians today is fatigue, and the most common cause of fatigue is sleep deprivation.

Sleep is an unfortunate biological requirement that both wastes time and leaves one vulnerable.

What is that?" Dad said, looking at the doll. "It's called the Scream," I said. "I know that, but what us it?" Dad said. "Maybe she sleeps with it," I said to Dad as he tucked it under his arm. "Then no wonder it's screaming," he said.

This is not good. This is not right. My feet stick out of bed all night. And when I pull them in, oh dear! My head sticks out of bed out here!

This book is to be read in bed.

There's the yottle in the bottle, whom I do not wish to keep, but the zillow on my pillow always helps me fall asleep.

Emotions in this game run deep so before these haters kill me in my sleep Id like to say, its been a pleasure.

I havent slept in days. And me and my latest girl agreed to go our separate ways.

Waking was the most reliable part of a dream, as built into dreams as death is to life. You dream, you wake: you live, you die.

If you're a bird, be an early bird. But if you're a worm, sleep late.

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

I've never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn't seem very appealing to me.

The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.

A vast black sleep falls over my life sleep, all hope sleep, all desire.

Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side.

He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.