Top 100 Quotes About Sleeps
#1. It is apparent that nations cannot exist for us. They are the playthings of children, such toys as children break from boredom and weariness. The branch of a tree is my country. My freedom sleeps in a mulberry bush. My country is in the shivering legs of a little lost dog.
Sherwood Anderson
#2. The ocean sleeps. The ocean wakes. And the waking of the ocean is the waking of the soul. At midnight wakefulness springs from within the ocean.
Wasif Ali Wasif
#3. The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart.
William Wordsworth
#4. Am as clear as the stars that are my brothers. Still I must sleep. They sleep and the moon and the sun sleep and even the ocean sleeps sometimes on certain days when there is no current and a flat calm.
Ernest Hemingway,
#5. When reason sleeps, the monsters of repression will emerge.
Kate Morton
#6. It is the middle and pure height and whole of summer and a summer night, the held breath, of a planet's year; high shored sleeps the crested tide: what day of the month I do not know, which day of the week I am not sure, far less what hour of the night.
James Agee
#7. If I'm not mistaken, Sigmund Freud said that in every idealisation there's an aggression. Depicting the Pope as a sort of Superman, a star, is offensive to me. The pope is a man who laughs, cries, sleeps calmly and has friends like everyone else. A normal person.
Pope Francis
#8. He who wears unclean garments, has dirty teeth, is a glutton, speaks unkindly and sleeps after sunrise - although he may be the greatest personality - will lose the favour of Lakshmi.
Chanakya
#9. If the room to which my bed was removed were a sentient thing that could give evidence, I might appeal to it at this day - who sleeps there now,
Charles Dickens
#10. Call me infidel, call me atheist, call me what you will, I intend so to treat my children, that they can come to my grave and truthfully say: 'He who sleeps here never gave us a moment of pain. From his lips, now dust, never came to us an unkind word.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#12. Back home, he sleeps in Clarence's bed. Then he moves across and arranges the pillows beside the ghost of his wife. All three of them lie down together. The pulse of Louis Armstrong sounds out from the record player, the notes moving tenderly through his torment.
Colum McCann
#13. Tis aye a solemn thing to me
To look upon a babe that sleeps
Wearing in its spirit-deeps
The unrevealed mystery
Of its Adam's taint and woe,
Which, when they revealed lie,
Will not let it slumber so.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#14. Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
Ben Jonson
#15. So ... this is the dark dungeon where the very angry Tristan sleeps?"
"No. This is the dark dungeon where the very dangerous Tristan keeps himself away from the very carless young woman."
Clearly, he was in no mood for small talk.
Chelsea Fine
#16. What is a potto?"
"It is a little furry creature that sleeps all day with its head between its legs and then walks about very, very slowly all night, high in the trees, slowly eating leaves and creeping up on birds as they roost and eating them too.
Patrick O'Brian
#17. She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost - lost in a world of her own. She sleeps so little that most of her nights are spent reading.
E.M. Delafield
#19. A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.
Alan Ayckbourn
#20. He sleeps with you?"
"Robert?"
Stacey rolled her eyes at that.
"No, Ghandi-of course Robert!
S.L. Naeole
#21. I stood at the end of the street, catching snow in my mouth, and laughed softly to myself as I realized that without my insomnia and anxiety and pain I'd never have been awake to see the city that never sleeps asleep and blanketed up for winter. I smiled and felt silly, but in the best possible way.
Jenny Lawson
#22. He sleeps although so much he was denied. He lived and when his dear love left him died. It happened of itself, in the easy way that in the morning night time follows day
Victor Hugo
#23. And what does it matter when light enters the room where a child sleeps and the waking mother, opening her eyes, wishes more than anything to be unwakened by what she cannot name?
Mark Strand
#24. No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
Adrienne Rich
#25. She sleeps like a cocoyam. A thing without senses. She sleeps like his mother, unplugged from the world.
Taiye Selasi
#26. The boy who never sleeps, sleeping. Coming to rest upon the Cassiopeian shore, an island in the middle of a sea of blood. You have your promise, and I have you.
Rick Yancey
#27. The feminist in me, who is small and sleeps a lot but can be scrappy when provoked, took umbrage at this description.
Mary Roach
#28. And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.
Francis Quarles
#29. New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.
Patricia Marx
#31. Your friendship with her-it sleeps with the fishes.
John Green
#33. Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day; he sleeps and wakes with it, be it what it may - wealth or self, pleasure or renown.
Martin Luther
#34. Cary Benjamin sleeps dreamily on my stomach as we're both bonding and recuperating. He's phenomenal.
Jennifer Grant
#35. The demon woman is a mythological type, and appears either as the companion of the enemy, or as the seductress of the hero; she sleeps with him-or at least promises to-and kills him.
Wolfgang Lederer
#37. We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep.
Virginia Woolf
#38. It is the great inspector, with a myriad eyes, who never sleeps, and whose daily reports are submitted, not to a functionary or department, but to the whole people.
William Thomas Stead
#39. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
Cormac McCarthy
#40. Hockey wasn't invented but discovered. The game, and the large organizing idea behind Stephen Smith's deeply personal 'Puckstruck,' sleeps in ponds and in the crooked limbs of trees overhead; we merely pluck a stick from the sky and skate over the frozen world to find ourselves and each other.
Michael Winter
#41. In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#42. Look at that. There one family lives, kitchen is in China, bedroom is in Myanmar. In this way, this family eats in one country, sleeps in other. I think this house been standing there for many centuries, yes, long time, before anyone decided where one country stops, the other starts
Amy Tan
#43. Dan slept throughout - but a man who sleeps with his head lying on a phone table can never really sleep with a clean conscience
Will Self
#44. From her perch more than a kilometer aboveground, she surveys the city that never sleeps, glittering and coruscating in the rain like a metaphor for her glamorous life.
Bao Shu
#45. Yet, when the city sleeps;
When all the cries are still:
The stars and heavenly deeps
Work out a perfect will.
Lionel Johnson
#46. I love to watch to him while he sleeps. Besides everything else he is really my best friend now. It's a different kind of friendship ... It makes me wish I could share every day with him.
Judy Blume
#47. He paused to look at Nykyrian. "Wonder if she sleeps naked ... Bet she showers that way. Every day even. Think about it. I'll even bet she's naked underneath her clothes."
-Syn
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#48. What if the hook-up girl is using you just as much as you're using her? What if she's just having fun? This is the problem with society. When a guy sleeps around, he's sowing oats. When a girl does it, she's a hook-up girl.
Penny Reid
#49. I mean, I'm happy to see you, but why aren't you home?"
"Wherever my wife sleeps is my home.
Olivia Parker
#50. What do I say to a man who knows how I think and still sleeps next to me with the lights off?
Gillian Flynn
#51. I wonder how well she sleeps at night, and what kind of dreams she has. I wish I could step into them like she steps into mine.
Isaac Marion
#52. Here sleeps Saon, of Acanthus, son of Dicon, a holy sleep: say not that the good die.
Callimachus
#53. But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
Audre Lorde
#54. Indeed, sir, he that sleeps feels not the toothache; but a man that were to sleep your sleep, and a hangman to help him to bed, I think he would change places with his officer; for look you, sir, you know not which way you shall go.
William Shakespeare
#55. A man who reads at all, reads just as he eats, sleeps, and takes exercise,
because he likes it; and that is probably the best reason that can
be given for the practice.
Arthur Christopher Benson
#56. How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!
Mark Twain
#57. Water sleeps, and the enemy is sleepless.
Bram Stoker
#58. He takes a few dazed steps, the waiters turn out the lights and he slips into unconsciousness: when this man is lonely he sleeps.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#59. My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.
Antonio Machado
#60. A hidden spark of the dream sleeps
In the forest and waits
In the celestial spheres of the brain.
Dejan Stojanovic
#61. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps a-field.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#63. Peace is a rare gift. Peace of mind, peaceful sleeps, and peaceful spirits are all luxuries that few rebels can ever afford.
Assata Shakur
#64. Brendan's chihuahua doesn't do that. During the week it sleeps, eats and trains a little bit. So I have to say his chihuahua is a privileged one.
Jose Mourinho
#65. She sleeps well, she's got very good legs and she can stand for a long time. The Queen is as strong as a yak.
Robert Hardman
#66. If they come into a house and there is a son and a mother there, they hold a gun to their heads. They make the son sleeps with his mother. If it is a daughter and a father, they do the same thing.
Edwidge Danticat
#67. Sickness awakens sadness sleeps- Moments of aloneness results into peace.
Santosh Kalwar
#68. Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?
Soren Kierkegaard
#69. Characteristic of sickness to stay awake when everything sleeps, when everything is at rest, even the sick man.
Emil Cioran
#70. Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.
Patricia A. McKillip
#71. Time neither flies nor sleeps. It is flexible, plastic, ever changing. Spend two hours watching a movie curled up with your lover and time ceases to exist. Spend two hours waiting for your lover to come and time is the iron bars of a prison
Chloe Thurlow
#72. After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.
William Shakespeare
#73. When man ventures into the wilderness, climbs the ridges, and sleeps in the forest, he comes in close communion with his Creator. When man pits himself against the mountain, he taps inner springs of his strength. He comes to know himself.
William O. Douglas
#74. When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man ... there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.
Albert Camus
#76. The light that moves is not the light. The light that stays is not the light. The true light rose countless sleeps ago. It rose, even in the mouth of birds.
Andre Alexis
#77. he dislikes "a boy who sleeps around.
Edith Hall
#78. The body sleeps, the heart sleeps, the mind sleeps - but you remain alert because you are nothing else but alertness. Everything else is a false identification. Awareness is your nature. The body is your abode. The mind is your computer. Awareness;s you, is your very being.
Rajneesh
#79. I turned down the lead role in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, because that idiot Oliver Stone didn't think the character should play the alto sax.
Michael Cera
#80. We are all dishonored when a veteran sleeps on the same streets that he or she has defended. We are all dishonored when a veteran's family has to live in a shelter while he or she is out fighting for us. WE NEED TO FIX THAT!
Tammy Duckworth
#81. Daddy said you're a flat-chested old maid who probably sleeps with your legs crossed.
Patricia Watters
#82. Her touch is like doing simple math
When she sleeps in the bed, subtracting clothes
There is a red ink, like a sparkling red wine, adding colors
Dividing body, remembering gods, without multiplying
Santosh Kalwar
#83. Every king sleeps, but not every king wakes up as king! The snakes of the intrigue crawl around during the night! The cleverest king is the least sleeping king!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#84. He sleeps for himself and dreams for others.
Anonymous
#85. Maybe she grew one more in the night and that's why the night sleep was so deep, it was a matching pair of sleeps. -
Helen Oyeyemi
#86. We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner.
Rachael Ray
#87. If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the past.
E. M. Forster
#88. The people who say New York never sleeps must have never visited Las Vegas.
Michelle Madow
#89. What does this mean? It means I get to spend the morning having the hair ripped off my body while Peeta sleeps in.
Suzanne Collins
#90. Six has never been a morning person, and from the looks of it, she's not an afternoon person, either. In all honesty, she's also not a night person. If I had to guess when her most pleasant time of day occurs, it's probably while she sleeps, which may be why she hates to wake up so much.
Colleen Hoover
#91. The mind never sleeps. Though the body can be idle, there shall always be something for the mind to do! Do something with your mind then!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#92. Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth: And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth.
William Wordsworth
#93. It was the dog Abel, who - as animals have been reported to do - had made his way over all England's hills and rivers, to return to that home where he was first kindly treated. The warm fire, by which he sleeps even now, and the fattening dish will be his rewards to the end of his days.
K.W. Jeter
#94. I have trust that we humans can resolve the problems that we have created. There is a Sanskrit saying that I subscribe to and I like very much, that "God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in the animals, and thinks in Man."
Edgar Mitchell
#95. Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh Billings
#96. The one who never repents shall be the one who never sleeps.
Charles Lee
#97. Only the conscious mind sleeps - the unconscious is always aware.
Michael Scott
#98. The fire which seems out often sleeps beneath the cinders.
Pierre Corneille
#99. I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#100. Yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and tenpence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow!
John Stark
