Quotes About Sleep

#1. Everybody's bones are just holy branches cast from trees to cut patterns in the world. And in time we find some shelter, spill our leaves, and then sleep in the earth. And when we're there, we'll belong, 'cause the earth don't give a damn if you're lost.

Radical Face

#2. There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.

D.H. Lawrence

#3. O sleep! O sleep!
Do not forget me. Sometimes come and sweep,
Now I have nothing left, thy healing hand
Over the lids that crave thy visits bland,
Thou kind, thou comforting one.
For I have seen his face, as I desired,
And all my story is done.
O, I am tired.

Jean Ingelow

#4. He hated to be alone, but people bored him. Being alone was like being tired, but unable to sleep.

John Le Carre

#5. Married pixy, I told myself, forcing my eyes back to the shelf of ceramic animals. Fifty-four kids. Beautiful wife, sweet as sugar, who would kill me in my sleep while apologizing for it.

Kim Harrison

#6. When something hurts them, they weep.
By night, they rest, they sleep

Christina Engela

#7. Aaron, we came here to find the Didot, not to spend our money on hotel movies! You're lucky I didn't plan for us to sleep outside or something!

Embee

#8. The night sky alternated between black and bursts of colour. My stomach wanted food. My limbs wanted rest. My brain wanted sleep. My mind wanted oblivion.

Srijita Sarkar

#9. If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill.

Ethel Merman

#10. Every morning you have two choices. Continue to sleep with dreams - or - wake up and chase them.

Jay McLean

#11. That little bird has chosen his shelter. Above it are the stars and the deep heaven of worlds. Yet he is rocking himself to sleep without caring for tomorrow's lodging, calmly clinging to his little twig, and leaving God to think for him.

Martin Luther

#12. I love having a full schedule everyday and always being a little bit sleep deprived and just kind of love that lifestyle.

Lauren Conrad

#13. Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don't know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

Robert Baden-Powell

#14. The mornings themselves were becoming bad now as I wandered
about lethargic, following my synthetic sleep, but afternoons were
still the worst, beginning at about three o'clock, when I'd feel the
horror, like some poisonous fog bank roll in upon my mind, forcing me
into bed.

William Styron

#15. I get maybe four hours of sleep a night. I'm a little bit crazy.

Mayim Bialik

#16. Want more energy? Drink water. Sleep deep. Love passionately. Eat clean. Forgive completely. Create something new.

Toni Sorenson

#17. Creativity is like a snoring husband, it won't let you sleep.

Barbara Alfaro

#18. All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.

D.H. Lawrence

#19. When you hit seventy you sleep sounder, you feel more alive than when you were thirty. Obviously it's healthier to have women on your mind than on your knees.

Maurice Chevalier

#20. Cars and bumper cars are two very different things. NEVER sleep in a bumper car.

Craig Benzine

#21. In sleep things are simpler. No regret over the past. No worry for the future. Only the present. And as bad as a dream gets, at least you get to sleep through it.

Jonathan Goldstein

#22. And that night he couldn't sleep, but lay looking out at the light June night which was full of lonely whisperings and rustlings and the pattering of feet. The air was sweet with the smell of flowers.

Tove Jansson

#23. I don't think I have ever worn more outfits over the course of four days than I did Emmy weekend. You barely sleep. You don't eat.

Allison Tolman

#24. Sleep without the fragrance of her hair next to him was impossible.

Toni Morrison

#25. I can tell the time, though, by speak-ing, and as I nev-er sleep I can wak-en you at an-y hour you wish to get up in the morn-ing.'
'That's nice,' said the little girl; 'only I never wish to get up in the morning.

L. Frank Baum

#26. You ever hope for something so much? So much you can't sleep, so much your skull hurts? But the thing is, you don't even know if the thing you're wishing for is possible? You don't even know if it could happen? And it's all out of your control?

Anthony Doerr

#27. When a man can't sleep, he won't let anybody else sleep either. If he doesn't go off to dreamland the moment his head hits the pillow, he gets frightfully annoyed and won't stay in bed.

Carter Dickson

#28. One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.

George Herbert

#29. It's already long past midnight, but she won't sleep or stop until it's done, because the air is always thicker with magic, faith and possibility at night.

Menna Van Praag

#30. THE SEVEN COMMANDMENTS Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. No animal shall wear clothes. No animal shall sleep in a bed. No animal shall drink alcohol. No animal shall kill any other animal. All animals are equal.

George Orwell

#31. Am I to die?" I asked, and he stopped, raised our joined hands to his mouth and gently kissed my knuckles.
"You are, my love, and in your sleep, you will become Death's bride.

Charlotte Featherstone

#32. Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me.

Edith Sitwell

#33. That you can know what i have in me and still want me as much as i want you. i go to sleep every night afraid i'll wake up and you'll be gone.or that i scared you away ... that i dreamed you-" "no. Gideon." jesus he broke my heart every day. shattered me.

Sylvia Day

#34. I can't help it. All I want to do is sleep, hide under the soft protection of the covers, and I know it isn't healthy. I know this, and yet I can't stop doing it. I've pushed Ethan away, ignoring the pain in his eyes. Ignoring everything, even the thoughts in my head.

Kristen Callihan

#35. PMS? You're damned right I have PMS! It stands for Pass My Shotgun, which means you'd better sleep with one eye open, buster.

Jane Graves

#36. Make your dreams worth more than your sleep.

Eyden I.

#37. Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.

Paul Newman

#38. If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry; I will find you another who will not agree with him.

Michel De Montaigne

#39. This would be the perfect place to sleep: one could see the stars at night without getting rained on.

John Green

#40. He that loves the world, how active is he! He will break his peace and sleep for it. He that loves honour, what hazards will he run! He will swim to the throne in blood ... Love heaven, and you cannot miss it; love breaks through all opposition-it takes heaven by storm.

Thomas Watson

#41. Do your dreams find their way from your sub-conscious self, the part of your brain that's busy while you sleep, to your conscious self? From your night self to your day self? That's the question." She met William's eyes and held on. "Do you know what you want?

Dennis Vickers

#42. I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.

Anonymous

#43. Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian.

Simon Van Booy

#44. Be my bedtime story and the thoughts that won't let me fall asleep. Be the conversation that I always have in my head at 3 AM and that beautiful voice that never lets me sleep.

Akshay Vasu

#45. Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.

Hugh Jackman

#46. Sleep felt miles away, and he couldn't shake the despair and hopelessness that coursed through his body and mind -

James Dashner

#47. I sleep for about four hours a night, or day really. I go to bed at, like, 9 A.M., sleep for four hours, then get up and start the day again. I don't mind if that's not healthy.

Taylor Momsen

#48. If we have a strong and secure knowledge of the sovereign hand of God upon us, it should help us sleep.

Adrian Reynolds

#49. So knowing that you can actually help yourself stay healthy over a long shoot where you get no sleep and what you eat really matters. It really mattered that there was a juice bar. You know?

Elizabeth Banks

#50. Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number-
Shake your chains to earth like
dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many-they are few.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#51. What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? - SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Wayne W. Dyer

#52. Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always; hearts can be well-hidden, and you can betray them with your tongue. (from "Instructions")

Neil Gaiman

#53. Dream, but don't sleep.

Liz Murray

#54. I have trouble sleeping, at the end of the night. There's a lot of stimulus and my brain is processing a lot of different arcs and personalities. I'm always processing things, so I don't sleep.

Tatiana Maslany

#55. The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.

Jacques Maritain

#56. I sleep - laying down, not on the ceiling. Nothing about my life is crazy. I fly a lot, I travel a lot. I eat and sleep like everyone else.

Maksim Chmerkovskiy

#57. When you're on the road a lot, you're in perpetual search of a good night's sleep.

Artie Lange

#58. ...please remember that leaving your baby alone protesting for more fun with you while you get dressed is not the same things as abandonment. Similarly, leaving your baby alone protesting for more fun when she needs to sleep is not neglect.

Marc Weissbluth

#59. Aromatherapy is extremely useful. If you want to go to sleep at night, and you have an aroma that calms your mind, it will help you sleep.

Deepak Chopra

#60. Sweetheart, by the time I'm done with you, sleep will be the last thing on your mind. I guarantee it.

Lauren Layne

#61. Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#62. I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.

Sylvia Plath

#63. Bad dreams are ghosts of our fears and worries, haunting us while we sleep. I doubt Valek is in trouble.

Maria V. Snyder

#64. Commander! Sir! Wake up!
Jack surfaced from sleep, wondering who the commander was and wishing he'd respond so he could go back to sleep - until he remembered that he was the commander.

Cinda Williams Chima

#65. Writing, first thing in the morning, captures the labors of my sleep.

Garry Fitchett

#66. No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep.

Benjamin Disraeli

#67. The older child who has lost or broken some valuable thing will be found when his parents return, not run away, not willing to confess, but in a deep sleep The thief whose case is being tried falls asleep

Margaret Mead

#68. Sleep came slower than a frigid woman.

Kinky Friedman

#69. Your subconscious never sleeps. It is always on the job. It controls all your vital functions.
Forgive yourself and every one else before you go to sleep, and healing will take place much
more rapidly.

Joseph Murphy

#70. I'd rather go to sleep than find a girl.

Niall Horan

#71. Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

George Gordon Byron

#72. Now I get a very nice salary as a member of Congress, but when I'm in Washington, I sleep in my office.

Jason Chaffetz

#73. My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.

Markus Zusak

#74. It's terrifying to think you can remember things you shouldn't possibly be able to. It's like that childhood fear of having your soul slip from your body in your sleep. The darkness, those black sheets of glass sliding over you, upping the pressure, pushing you through the time and space and story.

Tim Winton

#75. Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.

Jack Kerouac

#76. You can't all of a sudden go to sleep one night and wake up Martha Stewart. It's bit by bit by bit.

Jen Lancaster

#77. Kings also sleep; but the clever ones, with one eye open, just like dolphins and whales.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#78. Monstrous, unnatural, colossal, was the thing - too far beyond all the ideas of man to be believed except in the silent damnable small hours of the morning when one cannot sleep.

H.P. Lovecraft

#79. At my age a man discovers regret, Senhor Mouse. I pursued blood instead of beauty. My memories are all of killing. I've forgotten the rest. Sometimes I cannot sleep.

John Speed

#80. I think that sometimes our souls must tell us they are having a hard time trying to keep up with all of our worldly festivities and plans. Quiet moments, such as when we weave, or in times of sleep, are when we hear what our inner selves have to say.

Meghan Nuttall Sayres

#81. Okay, basics. The three S's: shower, shit, and shave - every man could do that in his sleep. So he did. He managed his complete morning routine in a mental and emotional coma.

Amy Lane

#82. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void ...

William Gibson

#83. savor
with me
the lushness
of a lingering sleep...
and last night's
dream.

Sanober Khan

#84. Want to stay over at my place tonight?" "But I don't have anything to sleep in," "Who said we're going to be sleeping?

Codi Gary

#85. Then his head tipped down on his chest and he fell into the instant sleep of the ancient and the very young.

Louise Erdrich

#86. Some go to sleep in an organization and never wake up, and those who do wake up put them selves to sleep again by joining another. This acquisitive movement is called expansion of thought, progress.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#87. I can sleep anywhere. I can fall asleep standing up, literally anywhere.

Jenna Ushkowitz

#88. Everything you do, you'll do better with a good night's sleep,

Arianna Huffington

#89. When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning ... you can't do that when you have two children!

Julie Mehretu

#90. Ghosts do not haunt, they regress. Just as when you need to go to sleep you think of threes or lawns, you are taking instant symbolic refugee in a ready-made iconography of early safety and satisfaction. That exact place is where ghosts go.

Max Porter

#91. Shortly after we were in bed I began my story, but made it so absurd, so long, and so tiresome, that, as my intention was, I sent her to sleep, and should have gone to sleep myself - but dark plots are ever wakeful. ("The Story of Prince Barkiarokh")

William Beckford

#92. I said, I love you
when I meant something much
more specific, I should have said,
Please don't leave me,
I'm afraid to sleep alone.

Clementine Von Radics

#93. I don't get jet lagged that much. I'm so used to traveling and being in different places every day that I can sleep anywhere.

Blake Mycoskie

#94. Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek soft flesh and hot blood.

Jim Butcher

#95. Maybe when I'd dead, he thought. Maybe when I'm dead I'll get some goddamned sleep.

Shalom Auslander

#96. Eat better or work out more, and you'll see the benefits weeks, months or years down the road. Sleep more, and you'll see the benefits tomorrow.

Sendhil Mullainathan

#97. She is so relieved to know that he's better and is finally getting the sleep he needs and she misses him.

Elizabeth Scott

#98. Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Thomas Gray

#99. Murder? You mean he's dead?"
"No. He's resting comfortably," I said. "People always sleep best with their heads at a ninety-degree angle. He looks comfortable, doesn't he?"
(Paige & Elena)

Kelley Armstrong

#100. The female that loves unrequited sleeps,
And the male that loves unrequited sleeps,
The head of the money-maker that plotted all day sleeps,
And the enraged and treacherous dispositions, all, all sleep.

Walt Whitman