Top 100 Quotes About The Sleep
#1. Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.
Umberto Eco
#3. don't get a Saturday where you can catch up. The sleep
Amy Poehler
#4. If you show patience
If you show patience, I'll rid you of this virtue.
If you fall asleep, I'll rub the sleep from your eyes.
If you become a mountain, I'll melt you in fire.
And if you become an ocean, I'll drink all your water.
Rumi
#5. Even sleep is characteristic. How beautiful are children in their lovely innocence! how angel-like their blooming features! and how painful and anxious is the sleep of the guilty!
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#6. The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.
Christopher Hitchens
#7. Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
Dick Cavett
#8. For some it is harder to wake up to the truth of life than it is to fall into the sleep of death
Dean Cavanagh
#9. Go mortals, sweat, pant, toil, range the lands and seas to pile up riches you cannot keep; glory that will not last. The life we lead is a sleep; whatever we do, dreams. Only death breaks the sleep and wakes us from dreaming. I wish I could have woken before this.
Francesco Petrarca
#10. I used to sleep the sleep of someone who knew she was loved. Now, I didn't.
Kristen Ashley
#11. To fully appreciate the Sleep, you had to embrace the Wake and all its drudgery.
James Dashner
#12. Gen was sleeping the sleep of the heavily drugged.
Ann Patchett
#13. I know I burn for you.Even in my sleep, the sleep of our people where there can be no thought,I burn for you.
Christine Feehan
#14. You're surrounded by people in the waking period, and you feel their eyes and their hopes on you. You can't stand up under it. In the sleep period, you're free.
Isaac Asimov
#16. Some would rather fall into the sleep of death than wake up to the truth of life
Dean Cavanagh
#17. The Sleep lasted six hours. For most of that time John lay beside Miriam watching the shadows.
Whitley Strieber
#18. What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?
Frank Herbert
#19. All our theories of improving the world, while we are still asleep, merely intensify the sleep of humanity.
Maurice Nicoll
#20. How am I suppose to think about Anna Fitzgerald when I'm wondering whether Julia has ever woken up in someone's arms and for just a moment, before the sleep cleared from her mind, thought maybe it was me?
Jodi Picoult
#21. There have been plenty of chances to close my eyes and go back to the sleep of my life as it was, but I hadn't taken any of them. Do I wish now that I had? It's hard to answer that question, as the wraiths move closer.
Lisa Unger
#22. Do not be alarmed if they look paler than the other maidens of Greece. They are scarcely of this Earth, and seem to be shaking off the sleep of a past life.
Charles Nodier
#23. The sleep deprivation after children is so real. I liken it to what it must feel like to walk on the moon and to cry the whole time because you had heard that the moon was supposed to be great but in truth it totally sucks.
Amy Poehler
#25. Your body tells you what it needs, and if you sleep past your alarm on a Saturday morning, it's probably because you need the sleep.
Sophia Bush
#26. When the enemy is awake and around, don't ever shut your eyes even for a single second no matter how sweet and tempting the sleep.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#27. But to dream you first must know the sleep of men. You do not smell of sleep, you do not smell of dreams. You smell of an eternity born of unremembered beginning.
Jon Steele
#28. As if familiar paths traced in summer skies could lead as easily to prison as to the sleep of the innocent.
Albert Camus
#30. Some of us have resolved to escape into drunkenness before the sleep takes us.
Neil Gaiman
#31. The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.
Sophocles
#32. Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing.
D.H. Lawrence
#33. In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping.
Mary Wilson Little
#35. You're not too good for the sleep mask-neck pillow combo! You're not too cool for it!
Nikki Glaser
#37. You don't get something for nothing You can't have freedom for free You won't get wise with the sleep still in your eyes No matter what your dreams might be
Bradley J. Birzer
#38. After which, satisfied with the way he had conducted himself at Meung, free of remorse for the past, confident in the present, and full of hope for the future, he went to bed and slept the sleep of the just.
Alexandre Dumas
#39. It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion.
Edmondo De Amicis
#40. Now, sprawled comfortably in his motel bed, Anson Sharp enjoyed the sleep of the amoral, which is far deeper and more restful than the sleep of the just, the righteous, and the innocent.
Dean Koontz
#41. The silence that is in the starry sky, / The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
William Wordsworth
#42. Sitting watching Anna's eyelids flicker some hours later, Lib found herself longing for the sleep she should have had that afternoon. But this was an old battle, and like any nurse, she knew she could win if she spoke to herself severely enough. The
Emma Donoghue
#43. The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.
Solomon
#44. I kissed someone tonight."
"Good for you. Now go back to sleep."
"It was Wesley...Wesley Rush."
Casey shot straight up in bed. "Whoa!" She shook her head and rubbed the sleep from her wide hazel eyes. "Okay, now I'm awake.
Kody Keplinger
#45. England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?
William Blake
#46. It looked so quiet and peaceful around. But the stillness was the sleep of swords.
Zora Neale Hurston
#47. ... my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.
Luigi Pirandello
#50. Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.
James Freeman Clarke
#51. The sublime signals the limits of rationality - the 'sleep' of reason - and was best communicated by obscurity. So in the same spirit as the recipes 'to make a romance', 'seven types of obscurity' could be proposed for a Gothic novel:
Nick Groom
#52. CHORUS: And so, while the fool slept the sleep of the dead, the beautiful Jewess snipped off the tip of his willy.
Christopher Moore
#53. Night is the sleep of seven wax moths
Dawn is the singing of five mermaids
Noon is the scratching of three field mice
Dusk is the shadow of a crow
Xi Chuan
#54. Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls.
Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre
#55. The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world.
John Strachan
#56. She is so relieved to know that he's better and is finally getting the sleep he needs and she misses him.
Elizabeth Scott
#57. Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking.
Walter Scott
#58. The sea will grant each man new hope
The sleep brings dreams of home.
Cristoforo Colombo
#59. I should have listened to Hunslett. Again I should have listened to Hunslett. And again for Hunslett's sake. But I didn't know then that Hunslett was to have time for all the sleep in the world.
Alistair MacLean
#60. Sleeping here is harder here in space than on a bed because the sleep position here is the same position throughout the day. You don't ever get that sense of gratifying relaxation here that you do on Earth after a long day at work.
Scott Kelly
#61. You came suddenly and stole three things from me. The patience from my heart, the colour from my face and the sleep from my eyes.
Rumi
#62. Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light: Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound or sight: Nor wintry leaves nor vernal; Nor days nor things diurnal; Only the sleep eternal In an eternal night.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#63. The sleep he went back to was never the one he left.
Ann Patchett
#64. This is the sleep: being absent, being not present to the present moment, being somewhere else.
Rajneesh
#65. I thought of a remark ... that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.
Winston S. Churchill
#66. I wished I could shut it in a locket to wear aroung my neck. I wish a thousand-year sleep would find us, at this absolute second, like the sleep over the castle of Sleeping Beauty.
Janet Fitch
#67. They slept profoundly, desperately, greedily, as though for the last time, as though they had been condemned to stay awake forever and had to drink in all the sleep in the world during these last hours.
Hermann Hesse
#68. A dream isn't worth the sleep, unless you are wide awake when dreaming it.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#69. Omally, as ever, slept the sleep of the just, which was quite unjust of him, considering he had no right to do it.
Robert Rankin
#70. Thieves slept the sleep of the just, their fingers still in someone else's till.
Jeff VanderMeer
#71. I awake. I don't mean to but clearly I have not appeased the Sleep Gods with enough offerings.
Marian Keyes
#72. After the sleep of death we are to gather up our forces again with the incalculable results of this life, a crown of shame or glory upon our heads, and begin again on a new level of progress.
Hugh Reginald Haweis
#73. He tucks me in and says good night but I catch his hand and hold him there. A side effect of the sleep syrup is that it makes people less inhibited, like white liquor, and I know I have to control my tongue.
Suzanne Collins
#74. Time for bed. I held my fist out. One by one, my flock stacked theirs on top, and then we headed up into the trees to sleep the sleep of the innocent. Well, okay, maybe not so innocent. But the sleep of the much less guilty than others, for sure.
James Patterson
#75. I was trained in the Society of the Inner Light. Now that requires that you spend a certain amount of time in meditation, it also requires that you spend this time in early morning, because they say you're closer to the sleep state at that point.
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki
#77. The passions of the titanic struggle will finally enter upon the sleep of oblivion, and only its splendid accomplishments for the cause of human freedom and a united nation, stronger and richer in patriotism because of the great strife, will be remembered.
James Longstreet
#78. Everybody always talks about it, about how you don't know love until you meet your baby, and you really feel that. There are no words. It was a really wonderful surprise. And there is no way to prepare yourself for the sleep deprivation and what comes with it.
Hilary Duff
#79. Women never wake then, do they? They sleep the sleep of babes and children.
Ray Bradbury
#80. The sleep you didn't get one night sometimes came to you on the next, and then it came like a lover.
Stephen King
#81. Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking.
Walter Scott
#83. The sleep which lay heavy upon the furniture, the room, the whole surroundings of which I formed but an insignificant pat and whose unconsciousness I should very soon return to share.
Marcel Proust
#85. El Sueno de la razon produce monstrous. (The sleep of reason breeds monsters)
Francisco De Goya
#86. An irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself ...
Homer
#87. The moral world has no greater spectacle than this: a troubled and restless conscience on the verge of committing an evil deed, contemplating the sleep of a good man.
Victor Hugo
#88. Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.
Georges Duhamel
#89. I blinked the sleep out of my eyes and realized my head was in Khufu's lap. The baboon was foraging my scalp for munchies. "Dude." I sat up groggily. "Not cool." "But he gave you a lovely hairdo," Sadie said. "Agh-agh!" Khufu agreed.
Rick Riordan
#90. Sleep deeply, the sleep of our people, chosen one of my sister,that you will heal completely and wake refreshed and in full strength.
Christine Feehan
#91. 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
#92. I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before - the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.
Karl Lagerfeld
#93. Sleep sparks a series of pulses across the webs of neurons, pulses like waves; it washes out what is unnecessary and leaves only what's important behind.
Lauren Groff
#94. The nearer you approach to God, the less you reason and argue. When you attain Him, then all sounds - all reasoning and disputing - come to an end. Then you go into samadhi - sleep - , into communion with God in silence.
Ramakrishna
#95. You can't go to sleep without a cup of tea and maybe thats the reason that you talk in your sleep ...
Louis Tomlinson
#96. Ank froze. The moaning became more stressful and a little bit louder. "I think its coming from the basement."
Without warning, Ank grabs a pool stick and starts banging on the floorboards. "Would you shut up! It four o'clock in the morning and people are trying to get their beauty sleep!
Khalia Hades
#97. Together a brick and a blanket create the perfect metaphor for life. Will you be a brick and make something of your life, or be a blanket and sleep your life away?
Amy Summers
#98. Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just aware of sounds, conscious of his own breathing, and sensitive to his own heartbeats. Lying beside him is his wife, lying on her right side and enjoying her sleep.
John O'Hara
#99. Spare time is like spare change. It's hard to quantify, the definition of that phrase. What do I do when I'm not onstage singing, or sleeping, with or without someone else? I watch movies.
Marilyn Manson
#100. Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from heaven.
Charles Caleb Colton
