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Quotes About Sleep

But whenever I take to my restless dreamless dewdrenched bed I cannot close my eyes – fear stands over me instead of sleep. And whenever I think to sing or hum a tune to stay awake then my tears fall. This house is in trouble. The good days are gone. How I pray for a change! A happy change! A light in darkness.
~ Anne Carson
May god favour you with dreams
~ Anne Carson
Isaiah go home and get some sleep, said God. Isaiah went home, slept, woke again. Isaiah felt a sensation below the neck, it was a silk and bitter sensation. Isaiah looked down. It was milk forcing the nipples open. Isaiah was more than whole. I am not with you am in you, said the muffled white voice of God.
~ Anne Carson
I cannot close my eyes, fear stands over me instead of sleep.
~ Anne Carson
I wait for the kind of sense that dawn makes, when you have not slept.
~ Anne Enright
He slept like a shout.
~ Anne Enright
Hearing is one of the first senses to develop in a foetus-the ear has already begun to be formed in an eight-week-old foetus, and three months later is structurally complete. When we go to sleep, our perception of sound is the last sense to close off, and when we awake the first to start up again. And hearing, it's claimed, is the last sense to die at the end of life.
~ Anne Karpf
For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
She married the prince and all went well except for the fear — the fear of sleep. Briar Rose was an insomniac... She could not nap or lie in sleep without the court chemist mixing her some knock-out drops and never in the prince's presence.
~ Anne Sexton
I want to sleep all day and night (i.e., not live but not quite die) …
~ Anne Sexton
He was sound asleep, his long legs stretched out in front of him, the blessed fire blazing, an empty bottle of wine by his side. He hadn't been shaved recently, and he looked rumpled, dissolute and beautiful. Like a fallen angel. She moved to stand in front of him and pointed the pistol directly at his heart. "I wouldn't do that if I were you," he murmured, and then he opened his extraordinary eyes. "It's always unwise to shoot the man you're in love with.
~ Anne Stuart
There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.
~ Anne Tyler
Keep the dream alive; hit the snooze button!
~ Anonymous
Well, I didn't grow up with that word 'retirement' as part of my consciousness. I didn't grow up with professionals that retired. I thought retiring was when you are tired and go to bed.
~ Ruby Dee
When your product solves a problem that costs customers sleep, revenue, or profits, things are definitely looking up.
~ Steve Blank
Light is a profound degrader of our sleep.
~ Matthew Walker
I did theater as a kid, more of an after-school program. But every night I would put on a movie and fall asleep to it.
~ Scoot McNairy
I've never been one of those programmers that works effectively on short amounts of sleep. I've always needed eight hours.
~ John Carmack
The ads that podcasts manage to sell tell you a lot about who they think is listening. They include services that promise to make your investment portfolio ethical, deliver exotic, ready meals to your home, or guarantee better sleep thanks to luxury bed linen.
~ David Hepworth
We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night's sleep.
~ Richard Branson
If you don't get a good night's sleep, the events of the day are not properly encoded in memory.
~ Daniel Levitin