Sleep Quotes - page 8

What you hope for Is that at some point of the pointless journey, Indoors or out, and when you least expect it, Right in the middle of your stride, like that, So neatly that you never feel a thing, The kind assassin Sleep will draw a bead And blow your brains out. (Richard Wilbur)
There are four basic human needs: food, sleep, sex and revenge. View quote
Banksy
Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep. View quote
Haruki Murakami
It's cold and it's winter and the world has gone to sleep. View quote
James Frey
Sleep is still difficult I sleep for three or four hours a day. Usually sometime in the afternoon. I walk in the cold, keep myself numb. I cry less, and less." (James Frey, pg.88) View quote
James Frey
But think that we Are but turned aside to sleep. View quote
John Donne
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die. View quote
John Donne
Thou'rt slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell; And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well And better than thy stroke. View quote
John Donne
Oh how beautiful to fall to give you flight, To die to give you life, to rest under your sky; And in your enchanted land forever sleep. View quote
José Rizal
We also know that religion, as the Marxists have always insisted, has, too often, like an opiate, tended to put people to sleep to the reality and the need for the present struggle for peace and justice. View quote
Dorothy Day
The trees are white with dust, that o'er their sleep Wave their broad curtains in the south-wind's breath, While underneath such leafy tents they keep The long, mysterious Exodus of Death. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they'll get there - and all the time they'll get there anyway, you see. View quote
Jack Kerouac
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better. View quote
Marlo Thomas
I usually take no notice of reviews unless a critic has thought up some new way of describing me. That old one about the way I sleep my way through pictures is so hackneyed now. View quote
Robert Mitchum
When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back. View quote
Robert Jordan
I sleep well. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence. View quote
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Democracy means that if this man, you, and I will be trapped on an island, we having a majority of votes will decide that you have to sleep with us. That's the Democracy. And with 2/3 votes we can even put that in the constitution. View quote
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small drops of water torturers let fall ceaselessly upon one spot of their victim's body, I loved the irradiate refuge of sleep. In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow, and then I sleep. What I have done, what I am doing, what I am going to do, puzzle and bewilder me. Have you ever been a leaf and fallen from your tree in autumn and been really puzzled about it? That's the feeling. View quote
T. E. Lawrence
The idea of any social obligation [...] just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since the day before that I worry, and don't sleep well, and the real affair, when it happens, is absolutely insignificant and justifies nothing; and the case repeats itself and I never learn to learn. (Fernando Pessoa)
Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day: Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away, To sleep! to sleep! Sleep, mournful heart, and let the past be past: Sleep, happy soul, all life will sleep at last. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul, While the stars burn, the moons increase, And the great ages onward roll. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet Lie still, dry dust, secure of change. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher. View quote
Teresa of Ávila