Top 100 Quotes About Asleep
#1. Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.
Samuel R. Delany
#2. That's when the magic happens- when everyone else is asleep and you're awake thinking about the world as it is, and the world as it could be. Make the most of those moments.
Adam Braun
#3. I ruefully admit that if the cat is asleep in my chair - which she regards as hers, of course - I tend to leave her there and take the other one.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#4. I'm on so late I'm definitely the last seconds of anyone's attention. So I just want to give them something dumb to laugh at, so they go, 'That's funny,' then fall asleep.
Jimmy Fallon
#6. If we look on heaven and earth as a single crucible, and on the creator as the founder, would there be any place I could not go? When it is time, I will fall asleep, and when the right time comes, I will wake up again.
Zhuangzi
#7. Never fall asleep in a Dumpster, never underestimate a bee, never drive a convertible behind a flatbed truck, never get old, never get drunk near a train, and never, under any circumstances, cut off your air supply while masturbating.
David Sedaris
#8. It's sad to fall asleep. It separates people. Even when you're sleeping together, you're all alone.
J.L. Merrow
#9. After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy.
J.M. Barrie
#10. The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.
Soren Kierkegaard
#11. I closed my eyes obediently; I felt a light kiss on my lips, on which there was always a little accumulation of blood that wouldn't decrease. And then I fell asleep
Hermann Hesse
#12. Something I'm not ready to name works itself under the grip of Charlies death and loosens it, and keeps the nightmare at bay when I fall back asleep.
Trish Doller
#13. What is it like to fall asleep? What happens? Where do we go? Why don't we remember? Since childhood most of us have wondered about the mystery of sleep.
Henry Reed
#14. The thought of not seeing your eyes when I wake up, or not hearing your heart next to me while you are asleep made me sick. With all of that, I decided no, I can't go another day without you. I don't want to go another day without you
Gail McHugh
#15. Throughout the day I often ask myself, Could I fall asleep right now? and the answer is always a resounding yes.
Lena Dunham
#16. The people who say dreams never come true, must have been asleep when opportunity knocked
Nancy B. Brewer
#17. She fell asleep, leaning on his chest, and he edged her a little off a particularly painful bruise, leaned his head back against the tree he had propped them up against, and closed his own eyes.
Robin McKinley
#18. There are dreams which belong only partly in the unconscious; these are the dreams we remember on waking so vividly that we deliberately continue them, and so fall asleep again and wake and sleep and the dream goes on without interruption, with a thread of logic the pure dream doesn't possess.
Graham Greene
#19. I went to a restaurant, and I saw a guy wearing a leather jacket, eating a hamburger, drinking a glass of milk. I said, "Dude, you are a cow. The metamorphosis is complete. Don't fall asleep or I will tip you over!"
Mitch Hedberg
#20. I fell asleep to the scent of my wolf. Pine needles, cold rain, earthy perfume, coarse bristles on my face.
Maggie Stiefvater
#21. I like shopping from the comfort of my bed whilst my husband is asleep beside me.
Ashley Madekwe
#22. Staring down the reality of war, far from home, asleep among strangers, that familiarity, those memories, those ties kept us going; gave us a reason to persevere; toughened us up.
Carlos Wallace
#23. No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
Karl Lagerfeld
#24. Why is it you tell me the truth only when you've fallen asleep? It's then that you visit me.
Donna Lynn Hope
#25. Pay attention to your dreams - God's angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep.
Eileen Elias Freeman
#26. Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. Sometimes you run over a drunk who's lain down and fallen asleep on the warm pavement. I mean, do you keep going, or what?
E.L. Doctorow
#27. The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
Wilson Mizner
#28. True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.
Leon Jouhaux
#29. Dandelion! You're asleep in the saddle!' 'I'm not asleep. I'm thinking creatively!
Andrzej Sapkowski
#30. The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake up.
Vincent Van Gogh
#31. She'd dropped to her knees and put her head on his chest, and when she'd heard the strong, even heartbeat, she'd cried and then kissed his lips gently, because he was asleep and he would never know. He'd scared her so much.
Stupid wolf. Her stupid, stupid wolf.
Ilona Andrews
#32. Sometimes I fall asleep at night with my clothes on. I'm going to have all my clothes made out of blankets.
Mitch Hedberg
#33. Then his lids closed slowly over his slightly bloodshot eyes, and Mort Rainey, who had yet to discover what true horror was all about, fell asleep.
Stephen King
#34. I don't want to sleep alone, she says gently. And I don't force her to. Sarai falls fast asleep curled up next to me in my bed. Right where I want her.
J.A. Redmerski
#35. It was impossible to have a conversation in a room with a phone. It was like having a conversation in a room with a bat hanging from the ceiling. Even if the bat was asleep, how were you supposed to think about anything else or look at anything else?
Joe Hill
#36. I fell asleep to the faint sounds of the nonsense doggerel Merican Pie.
Mark Lawrence
#37. I only drink coffee in dire emergencies. That is I have to drive at 3am, have fifty miles or more to go, I'm falling asleep and there is no Pepsi Max available.
C.S. Woolley
#38. But here's the sunset of a tedious day,
These two asleep are; I'll but be undrest,
And so to bed. Pray wish us all good rest.
Robert Herrick
#39. If you have an active mind, it always helps. You know, people who don't do crosswords, their minds fall asleep. That's why I do them-my mind is always working. One day my brain is going to explode through the top of my head.
Brett Hull
#40. And who are all these people? There weren't this many when I fell asleep.
Alfie shrugged, indicating that the universe was mysterious and nothing would ever be fully understood.
Cassandra Clare
#41. To avoid congestion, I get up at 5:10, grab a slice of raisin toast, and leave the house at 6 A.M. My husband, Tim Dunn, who works for an environmental agency, is still asleep when I slip out, and I find that rather annoying.
Ellen Stofan
#42. I try to stay far away from all of them. I was tempted to go to my snotty high school reunion, but luckily I resisted the urge
when I received the hand-out that described what everyone is doing now, I fell asleep reading it. Boring!
Princess Superstar
#45. Maggie. When we make love, I want it to be special. Not some quickie in your bedroom before your parents come home. I want more than that for us. I want to be able to hold you all night and feel you against me as I fall asleep. I want us to be perfect together.
A Meredith Walters
#46. The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.
Bear Bryant
#47. It was surprising to him, how quickly she could fall asleep.
Kent Haruf
#48. Some people know they are dreaming when they are asleep. You must also know you are dreaming when you wake-up. When you know you are dreaming when you wake up, then you are really waking up
Mooji
#49. The mind never stops telling stories - not even when we're asleep.
Russ Harris
#50. I heard what you said. I'm not the silly romantic you think. I don't want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don't want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want ... a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.
Shana Abe
#51. Global warming is a deadly threat precisely because it fails to trip the brain's alarm, leaving us soundly asleep in a burning bed ...
Daniel Gilbert
#52. What's more, he could fall asleep with her and wake up with her, spend the day with her, go to bed with her, and begin the wonderful ritual all over again. His
Jennifer Ashley
#53. I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
Heinrich Heine
#54. What's beautiful is to refuse to let yourself stop, sit down, fall asleep, or look back.
Emmanuelle Arsan
#55. is it like this every night, while we're asleep?
Jodi Picoult
#56. When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep, and you're never really awake.
Chuck Palahniuk
#58. In a city like San Francisco, you can throw a rock out your front door and hit someone with a nice ass and pretty brown eyes. But to find someone you want to fall asleep with, someone you want to breathe and dream next to, is terribly rare.
Christopher Baer Will
#59. Something has fallen asleep there, that's all, but it's warm, and it's hers, it's the pain imprinted on her, and his healing powers rise up. It's her with everything she now is.
David Grossman
#60. And Hortensio falls asleep happily and starts snoring, although nobody could hear him snoring, because nobody can hear the noises that snails make, all around the world.
Elena D. Calin
#61. Maddie held her lightly, thinking she would let go when her friend stopped crying. But she cried for so long that Maddie fell asleep first. So she didn't ever let go.
Elizabeth Wein
#62. I believe I am blessed with the ability to fall asleep just about anytime, anywhere. I can sleep on a flight, on a couch, and even on a bus.
Shilpa Shetty
#63. She likes the calm before the day begins, this sensation that everyone she loves is sleeping nearby. It's so much easier to love them when they're asleep, after all. When
Nick Alexander
#64. Shadow brushed his teeth and washed his face in the cold water of the little bathroom, and then walked back down the hall to the sitting room, turned out the light, and was asleep before his head touched the pillow.
Neil Gaiman
#65. Humankind has no idea what existence is, at this stage. They're all dreaming, they're all asleep ... Once in a great while a fully awakened one is here, observes everybody is sleeping and leaves, quietly.
Frederick Lenz
#66. The first time I walked into the room and saw Naya asleep on Lucas's chest while he slept, too, his hand over her naked baby butt ... " Sascha sighed, rubbing a fist over her heart. "I don't think I've recovered.
Nalini Singh
#67. Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money.
If you approach them, they are not asleep; If you seek them, they do not hide;
If you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.
Richard De Bury
#70. That's my credo - My work is play. I don't complain about work. I enjoy it. I like the feeling of being able to lay down at night and you're so doggone tired, you're just hoping to get undressed before you fall asleep.
Buck Brannaman
#71. You would not believe your eyes, if ten million fireflies lit up the world as I fell asleep. 'Cause they'd fill the open air and leave teardrops everywhere. You'd think me rude but I would just stand and stare.
Owl City
#72. How could you sleep, knowing that any second your insides might begin to rot, your skin decay to slime, your brain shrivel to dust?"
"I fell asleep with my throat cut. I am a professional.
A.E. Marling
#73. Asleep you don't feel pain or hunger, or loneliness, or bitterness. In sleep you can drown in false euphoria, and when you awaken, you just don't care about anything.
V.C. Andrews
#74. You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Karsten Andersen
#75. Stand in the evening light until you become transparent or until you fall asleep.
Yoko Ono
#76. And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.
Yanni
#77. Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep.
H.M. Tomlinson
#78. There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, where the sea's asleep and the rivers dream, people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice and somewhere else the tea is getting cold. Come on, Ace, we've got work to do.
Sylvester McCoy
#79. Remember, you must not sleep at the Seder. If you do, Elijah the Prophet will come with a bag on his shoulders. On the two first nights of Passover, Elijah the Prophet goes about looking for those who have fallen asleep at the Seder, and takes them away in his bag.
Sholom Aleichem
#80. In our lives, on average, we will be asleep for a total of 8,477 days. If we're lucky, some of that time will be sleeping next to someone we love.
Ze Frank
#81. Men always look so innocent when they're asleep.
M.L. Buchman
#82. The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#83. I thought that might have been the worst thing about losing someone, that moment between asleep and awake, when you had to remember and accept the loss again, relive that moment when your life changed, and you lost something dear.
R.K. Lilley
#84. Gods, if they're neglected, tend to fall asleep, but they never really go away.
Nancy Farmer
#85. We cannot look to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.
Carl Von Ossietzky
#86. If you have a child, you'll notice they have two states: asleep or online.
Eric Schmidt
#87. Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.
Albert Claude
#88. The delicious, semiconscious, edge-of-wonderland kind of sleep, where I'm awake enough to control my dreams but asleep enough to forget that I'm doing it.
Lauren Miller
#89. I watch him for a moment, waiting for him to expose those brilliant eyes to the world again. But he doesn't. After a while, I hear his breathing grow steady and see his head droop, and I know he's fallen asleep. I
Marie Lu
#90. When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.
Patti Smith
#91. Some of my fellow academics are very hostile, but I sympathize with them. They've been asleep for 500 years and they don't like anybody who comes along and stirs them up.
Marshall McLuhan
#92. We walk and walk through the gray ashy dusk and the forest starts to fall asleep: The trees lie down side by side by side, the creek halts, the plants sink back into the earth, the animals switch places with their shadows, and then, so do we.
Jandy Nelson
#93. I'll go anywhere and do anything with you. You're my home. My family.'
'I love you,' she said, kissing me once.
We fell asleep, still in our clothes, her head on my heart.
Chelsea M. Cameron
#94. Falling asleep in your arms again reminded me that I was only half a person in your absence. You make me whole.
Sylvain Reynard
#95. Or future, experiencing the music with her, that unexpected prayer, and feeling grateful that I had set off in search of my kingdom. I lay down on the bed, and she continued to play. I fell asleep to the sound of her violin. I WOKE AT FIRST LIGHT, went to her room, and saw
Paulo Coelho
#96. She had the the most extraordinary capacity for falling asleep at a moments notice. Any kind of pause in the routine was an excuse for a nap. I swear she was more cat than human.
Chris Priestley
#97. Go to sleep, he says softly. His hand brushes the lose strands of my hair off my forehead. Unlike the staged kisses and caresses so far, this gesture seems natural and comforting. I don't want him to stop and he doesn't. He's still stroking my hair when I fall asleep.
Suzanne Collins
#98. There are times I'm on the subway and it's so packed I can't escape the legs on my left and right. New Yorkers rage about this forced physical contact, but I secretly savor it, so soothed by the heat generated between bodies I could fall asleep on the shoulder of a stranger.
Jessica Knoll
#99. We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
W.S. Merwin
#100. She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep.
Gustave Flaubert
