Quotes About Dreamless Sleep

#1. ...he'd made friends with the oblivion found in dreamless sleep."
~Aidan

Stephanie Stamm

#2. That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real

Ramana Maharshi

#3. Like the residents of Brigadoon, the people in the church drifted in a long and dreamless sleep, freed of struggle and expectation.

Donald E. Westlake

#4. 0 little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by.

Phillips Brooks

#5. I've dreamed a lot. I'm tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.

Fernando Pessoa

#6. The great longing of an unquiet heart is to possess constantly and consciously the loved one, or, failing that, to be able to plunge the loved one, when a time of absence intervenes, into a dreamless sleep timed to last unbroken until the day they meet again.

Albert Camus

#7. Were the earth smooth, our brains would be smooth as well; we would wake, blink, walk two steps to get the whole picture, and lapse into a dreamless sleep.

Annie Dillard

#8. 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

#9. As a boy, he had been moved by those words of the dying Socrates, suggesting that if death were just one long, unbroken, dreamless sleep, then a greater boon could hardly be bestowed upon mankind.

Colin Dexter

#10. The pain of hunger beneath everything. At the end of all love-making, the dreamless sleep after the orgasm, which is like death.

Christopher Isherwood

#11. Lexy lay curled up in Greys arms on the couch and slept a dreamless sleep free of dragons for she had slain them once again.
The Children of Ankh series

Kim Cormack

#12. The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing
that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. He'd woken me from a dreamless sleep, and I couldn't roll over and close my eyes, because in my wakefulness, I'd started dreaming.

C.D. Reiss

#14. But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

James Thurber

#15. You take a journey into the Unmanifested every night when you enter the phase of deep dreamless sleep. You merge with the Source. You draw from it the vital energy that sustains you for a while when you return to the manifested, the world of separate forms.

Eckhart Tolle

#16. She slept a dreamless sleep free of dragons for she had slain them once again. The Children of Ankh

Kim Cormack

#17. Lying in my bed, I pray for a dreamless sleep ... but if I am to dream, I want to dream of her.

E.L. James

#18. There was the focus of seeking pleasure, and the numbing effect, once they were finished, removing all specific thoughts from her brain. It ushered in the solid, dreamless sleep that otherwise eluded her.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#19. There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean.

Robert Breault

#20. Through meditation one has to achieve a dreamless sleep with full alertness. Once this happens, the drop falls into the ocean and becomes the ocean.

Rajneesh

#21. Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.

John Steinbeck

#22. There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.

Isaac Asimov

#23. She can put her life in Mitch's strong hands and fall at once into a dreamless sleep. In a sense, that is what marriage is about-a good marriage-a total trusting with your heart, your mind, your life.

Dean Koontz

#24. Malacca fascinates me more and more daily. There is, among other things, a mediaevalism about it. The noise of the modern world reaches it only in the faintest echoes; its sleep is almost dreamless. Its sensations seem to come out of books read in childhood.

Isabella Bird

#25. If you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.

Frederick Buechner

#26. Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night; and it is not dreamless. Does not your house dream, and dreaming, leave the city for grove or hilltop?

Khalil Gibran

#27. Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!

Maria Edgeworth

#28. I'm not smart, but I like to observe.
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why,

William Hazlitt

#29. Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;
Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore
Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn
Disturbs the eternal sleep,
But in the stillness far withdrawn
Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#30. I don't use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. The drawing has to be self-explanatory, so I spend a lot of time sketching to find an idea and an angle that is clear.

Siegfried Woldhek

#31. Today people are a hundred times more interested in the personality of the person they are with than the clothes he wears.

Emilio Pucci

#32. I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.

Aaron Eckhart

#33. I only went a year to high school. I should have been in high school, but I was in a band, and when you're successful doing that - well, you aren't too likely to go back.

Peter Noone

#34. As the shape of political geography and the architecture of planetary-scale computation as a whole, The Stack is an accidental megastructure, one that we are building both deliberately and unwittingly and is in turn building us in its own image.

Benjamin H. Bratton