Quotes About Asleep

He's asleep in the harbor, disguised as dog shit.

Like the best wine… that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.

Little boy blue, come blow your horn,The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn;But where is the boy who looks after the sheep?He's under the haystack fast asleep.Will you wake him? No, not I,For if I do, he'll be sure to cry.

I was asleep, of course, and dreaming, but I remember wondering how he had managed to enter my world before the thought occurred to me that maybe it was I who had entered his.

I was asleep, in the upstairs bedroom, in the rear of the house. There was this tremendous crash, there was a terrible wind force hitting my body, and then I blanked out.

There's a goose asleep in the rain!

I am awake but asleep, a ghost floating in a space that has no beginning or end, just an endless hall of grief.

In the darkness, she wound herself into the blanket still more tightly. She was swaddled, confined, protected from herself--as in a very exclusively privately run mental hospital devoted solely to the care of one person: Nola. She fell asleep bothered only by the nagging thought that she would have to start all over in the morning. Existence whined in her head like a mosquito. Then she swatted it. Rode the tide of her comfort down into the earth.

Suddenly he fell asleep in the candlelight. After a while I got up to look at his face. He slept like everybody else. He looked quite ordinary. There ought to be some mark by which to distinguish good from the bad.

am discovering her pretenses. She is always smiling, gay, but underneath she feels unreal, remote, detached from experience. She acts as if she were asleep. She is trying to awaken by falling into bed with anyone who invites her.

You have to understand, it's how we are here. It's like we're all asleep. We grow up, we fall asleep, and then the horrors that scared us before - we're doing them. We're the monsters in the nightmare.

I've encountered my fair share of war reenactors over the years, but I've never seen a reenactment of this banal predicament: a tired woman in a dark house answering a child who is supposed to be asleep that she has no idea when Daddy's coming home.

Life is a waste of woes, And Death a river deep, That ever onward flows, Troubled, yet asleep.

O: Are you asleep, mi amor? C: [no response] O: There is a spider on your face. C: [no response] O: That's a little trick, Juan-George, to make sure someone's really asleep. There's no spider.

But the sower Loves to see a woman Fallen asleep in the daytime Over a half-knitted stocking.

I did have that happen when I was with the Celtics once - I was there late and no one woke me up when I fell asleep in a chair. But at the Celtics they didn't like me as much, so they let me snooze away and made fun of me.

I can't count the number of times I've been sound asleep, woke up, and I was doing my hair.

I fell asleep during the draft, actually. I woke up, and I was picked No. 48. I didn't even know what number I was picked.

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.

Here's a health to our Captain, so gallant and free Whether stuck on a rock or asleep 'neath a tree Or rolled in the arms of some nymph of the sea Which is where we would all like to be, man!

while I . . . napped on the couch, beneath Breccia, who, like all cats, weighed twenty pounds more asleep than awake.

Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep

How can you sleep at a time like this?" she asked, but the only answer was a low snore. She looked at him suspiciously. In the short time she had been with him, she had never before heard him snore. "You're faking," she said. "No. I'm really fast asleep," came his voice from under the cowl.

If enterprise is afoot, wealth accumulates, whatever may be happening to thrift; and if enterprise is asleep, wealth decays, whatever thrift may be doing.