Quotes About Sleeps

The yellow bedspread he sleeps upon is slowly changing to the gentle quiet gold of his breath

Pride is an evil dragon; it sleeps underneath your heart and then roars when you need silence.

All power shits. All power sleeps . Strength must be aimed , and so are all things exposed, all things weak. To despise weakness is to loathe existence itself

Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.

Ideas are goddesses who deign at times to make themselves visible to a solitary mortal, at a turning in the road, even in his bedroom while he sleeps, when they, standing framed in the doorway, bring him the annunciation of their tidings.

And what does it matter when light enters the room where a child sleeps and the waking mother, opening her eyes, wishes more than anything to be unwakened by what she cannot name?

A lonely pond in age-old stillness sleeps . . . Apart, unstirred by sound or motion . . . till Suddenly into it a lithe frog leaps. Translated by Curtis Hidden Page

The mind is the master, at the same time it acts as the best slave that never rests or sleeps.

Hugest of living Creatures, on the Deep Stretcht like a Promontorie sleeps or swimmes, And seems a moving Land, and at his Gilles Draws in, and at his Trunck spouts out a Sea. —Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VII

What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.

God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us.