Daytime Sleep Quotes

#1. Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.

Iris Murdoch

#2. I felt dull and somnolent, for daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh: the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time. William

Umberto Eco

#3. Daytime sleep is not deep black; it's shallow and yellow. Our sleep is restless, the sunlight falls on our pillows. But it does make the day a little shorter.

Herta Muller

#4. Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

Umberto Eco

#5. The universe is based on sullen entropy;
It falls apart as it goes on

Robyn Hitchcock

#6. I find it hard to relax. I live in New York.

James Gandolfini

#7. He kissed the handkerchief, inhaled its perfume, put it over his heart, against his flesh in the daytime, and at night went to sleep with it on his lips.
"I feel her whole soul in it!" he exclaimed.
The handkerchief belonged to the old gentleman, who had simply dropped it from his pocket.

Victor Hugo

#8. It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#9. In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.

Stephen King

#10. There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.

George Santayana

#11. I find it so much easier to be creatively free at night. Daytime is for sleeping. Nighttime is the best time for making art. The later at night it gets the further into another world you go.

Mark Ryden

#12. Books are to the mind as the whetstone for the knives.

Aman Jassal

#13. If you aren't you, we don't get you.

Max Lucado

#14. I forgot that San Francisco is not an angry city like New York. Gays have gotten what they wanted there over the years, unlike New York, where we had to fight for everything.

Larry Kramer

#15. Nowadays you can record on your laptop with Pro Tools, which I do quite often.

Ronnie Wood

#16. The real badge of honour at work is not to work longer than anyone else, but to work smarter than anyone else.

David Hieatt

#17. After spending the previous night the way I had, I felt I could afford to lose some of the daytime to sleep.

S.A. Tawks

#18. We're the real estate industry - not the manufacturers.

Joe Murray

#19. It's emotional Morphine," he said finally. "Just go with it." And

Tarryn Fisher

#20. When we sleep the soul is lit up ... by many eyes, and with them, we can see everything that we cannot see in the daytime.

Aeschylus

#21. His philosophy of life had been that we only live once.
Now there had matured in him the sense of another truth about himself and the world: that we have only one conscience - and that a crippled conscience is as irretrievable as a lost life.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#22. It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#23. I am so tired; all I want to do is sleep. I want to sleep all the day, from dawn until twilight that every evening comes a little earlier and a little more drearily. In the daytime, all I can think about is sleeping. But in the night I do is try to stay awake.

Philippa Gregory

#24. At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night is a criminal offense.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#25. My childhood was as heavily gendered as any you would find in a working-class household in Lincolnshire.

Robert Webb

#26. He set Miss Goodnight back on her feet. As he lowered her to the floor, her body slid down his, like a raindrop easing down the surface of a rock.

Tessa Dare

#27. Death in my mind isn't a finality. There's a continuum: It's like at night, you go to sleep and in the daytime you wake up, or whenever you wake up, and it's a new day.

David Lynch

#28. Narcolepsy is a disorder that affects many different areas of life. So in typical patients with narcolepsy, they have something called "excessive daytime sleepiness." So, they're very sleepy during the day. Yet, at night, they're still sleepy, but their sleep is very broken.

Shelby Harris

#29. But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that this last lie might see him through to the grave.

Stephen Fry

#30. Do you want a good advice on your path? Here it is: Don't be sure of your path! Don't ever be sure of it! Do you want more advice? Here it is: Doubt your path! And examine the other paths, know the other paths!

Mehmet Murat Ildan