Sleep Quotes - page 6

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. (René Descartes)

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!

William Collins

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Marc Chagall

Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice isle in Bai's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing them.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

How wonderful is death Death and his brother sleep.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I heard one cry in the night, and I heard one laugh afterwards. If I cannot forget that, I shall not be able to sleep again.

M. R. James

Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.

Mark Strand

I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

Ned Vizzini

I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with someone even if they could have. I need to know these people exist.

Stephen Chbosky

I think the best way to get a good night sleep is to work hard throughout the day. If you work hard and, of course, work out. (William H. McRaven)

Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.

Fran Drescher

No, I don't live in heartache. I don't cry myself to sleep or any of that. I am, I tell myself, over it. But I do feel a void, icky as that sounds. And-like it or not-I still think about her every single day.

Harlan Coben

Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.

David Almond

As a purely mathematical fact, people who sleep less live more.

Amy Chua

I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.

Elizabeth Berg

There are two kinds of people, those who like to sleep next to the wall, and those who like to sleep next to the people who push them off the bed.

Etgar Keret

I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity.

Jerzy Kosinski

Sleep is the best time to repair, but it's hard to get a good night's rest when we don't dial the inner chatter down.

Kris Carr

I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did he rape my head, too?

Laurie Halse Anderson

I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die. (Laurie Halse Anderson)

Sleep is the best meditation.

Dalai Lama

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Earl Nightingale

My bed isn't made, I'm tired, I haven't slept well for two weeks. I haven't been laid in a month. I don't have a girlfriend. I have a warrant for my arrest.

Layne Staley

Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.

Anna Friel

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