Quotes About Asleep

Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep.

If indeed the universe posessed a mind, it was a cluttered one. And if corners such as these thrived in that mind, then the custodian was asleep, or, perhaps, drunk.

Caladan Brood, the menhired one, winter-bearing, barrowed and sorrowless . . ." Calot picked up the next lines.   ". . . in a tomb bereaved of words, and in his hands that have crushed anvils—" Tattersail continued, "the hammer of his song— he lives asleep, so give silent warning to all—wake him not.

Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'

My Love wakes in a puddle of sunlight.Her hands asleep beside her.Her hair draped on the lawnlike a mantle of cloth.I give her my lifefor our love is wholeI sing her beauty in my soul.

I look at the boys, asleep, unconscious to be exact, and plead silently with them to tell me the truth.

Gods, if they're neglected, tend to fall asleep, but they never really go away.

The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.

The private jet was a luxury unknown to Ella. From the discreet flight attendant catering to their every need to the plush seats and room to walk around, she was overwhelmed and out of her element. Add the concussion and events of the last forty-eight hours, and no sooner had she settled into the comfy chair and buckled in than she tipped her head back and fell asleep.

I had one day with him, and he was asleep in the scene, but I told my entire family that I was in a scene with Michael Caine.

Completely disoriented, I look around and realize that I'm at work and that I must have fallen asleep while waiting for the Phoenix status meeting to start. I sneak a peek at my watch. 11:04 a.m.

Michael could hear him yawning. At last he said, 'That cider has made me quite sleepy.' 'Well, go to sleep then,' said Michael. 'Oh, no,' said Toby. 'I'm not as sleepy as all that.' In a few minutes he was asleep.

There was a little smile on his mouth—the mouth that had been kissing hers. Otherwise, he was incommunicado. "Liam?" she said again, more loudly this time. Nada. He was out cold. Down for the count. She straightened abruptly. Face was burning, joints buzzing with adrenaline, chest filled with helium. Liam Murphy had kissed her. And he'd fallen asleep in the middle of it. She didn't know whether to burst into song or kick something.

Maybe he had fallen asleep out in the snows and dreamed himself a safe, warm place.

The opportunity that God sends does not wake up him who is asleep.

America 2020 is a bad dream — with woke citizens and an asleep government

Yeah, I was asleep, but it's okay. I was having my favorite dream. I have it all the time. I was dancing. I was beautiful. I was dancing.

She felt strange. For a moment it seemed to her that the day was already over--she was in bed, asleep, and then it was the next day and now here she was again. 'Oh,' she said.

Evelyn Waugh was in error when he said that in New York there was a neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistook for energy. There was, rather, a tensile excitement in that air which made one think — made me think for many years — that time spent asleep in New York was somehow time wasted. Whether this thought has lengthened or shortened my life I shall never know, but it has certainly colored it.

When many varied sensations have agitated the day, when various matters preoccupy the mind, one falls asleep once, but not a second time.

Attitude is a virtue of those who live reality. For everything else, they would do better to remain asleep, dreaming.

Eventually I fell asleep in the Rabies and Lycanthropy section. Woolsey bites on occasion, and I'm concerned.' - Magnus Bane

Awake is vertical, asleep horizontal, and drunk is dizzyingly diagonal.

History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison Of all they want to keep.