Top 52 The Sleeper Quotes
#2. The early bird catches the worm & the sleeper catches nothing but dreams. Get up & get about your business. Good morning world, rise & grind.
LaNina King
#3. Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.
Frank Herbert
#4. I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about.
Tony Kushner
#5. Fraugh!" cried the sleeper, as though he suddenly understood all.
"Braugh!" he cried, not liking at all what he suddenly understood.
"Sup-foe!" he said, saying in no uncertain terms what he was going to do about it.
"Floof!" he cried.
Kurt Vonnegut
#7. Then too, you're constantly being bumped against by those of poor vision. Or again, you doubt if you really exist. You wonder whether you aren't simply a phantom in other people's minds. Say, a figure in a nightmare which the sleeper tries with all his strength to destroy.
Ralph Ellison
#8. There is a waterfall in every dream. Cool and crystal clear, it falls gently on the sleeper, cleansing the mind and soothing the soul.
Virginia Alison
#9. All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part of them.
Daphne Du Maurier
#11. Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever.
Juliet Marillier
#12. The early bird catches the worm & the sleeper catches nothing but dreams. Get up & get about your business. Good morning world, rise & grind.
LaNina King
#13. I clenched my fist around the railing, finally forcing myself to acknowledge what that meant. I'd always known, of course. It was always there, at the back of my mind; I just didn't want to think about it. But if Ember was the sleeper ... I would have to kill her.
Julie Kagawa
#14. A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
Jessamyn West
#15. Unless you have a very good reason, never wake up anybody or anything! Let the sleeper sleep in peace.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. The dream has sucked the sleeper of his faith
Dylan Thomas
#17. A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing you to grow. Without them, it sleeps- seldom to awaken. The sleeper must awaken.
Frank Herbert
#18. For in the night, unseen, a single warrior, In sombre harness mailed, Dreaded of man, and surnamed the Destroyer, The rampart wall has scaled. He passed into the chamber of the sleeper, The dark and silent room, And as he entered, darker grew, and deeper, The silence and the gloom.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#19. I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
Wislawa Szymborska
#20. Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Frank Herbert
#21. The thief sighs. 'Perhaps. After that, she started talking about this ancient legend they have, about a creature called the Sleeper with a billion hit points, and after it was finally killed by a coalition of a thousand guilds, it dropped a small rusty dagger.
Hannu Rajaniemi
#22. There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was also no one more ferocious when anyone disturbed the sensuality of her thinking she was still asleep when she no longer was.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#23. I am not a great sleeper. I don't think I have ever slept 8 hours straight in the last 20 years.
Scott Kelly
#24. Aragon felt a shudder run through him at the sound, a strange cold thrill; and yet it was not fear or terror that he felt: rather it was like the sudden bite of a keen air, or the slap of a cold rain that wakes an uneasy sleeper.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#25. You're too sympathetic, the General said. You didn't see the danger in the major because he was fat and you took pity on him for that. Now the evidence shows that you've been willfully blind to the fact that Sonny is not only a left-wing radical but potentially a communist sleeper agent.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#26. Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.
Meghan O'Rourke
#27. Twenty-five years now and I still love to watch my wife sleep. I'm fascinated by the way the unconscious self (the deeper self) rises when consciousness falls away and often expresses itself in the face of a sleeper.
David Bottoms
#28. I am a sleeper. When you wake up at 4:30 in the morning to do a workout, you're sleepy at 8 in the evening. By 10 o'clock at the latest, I'm in bed.
Michelle Obama
#29. The morning sleeper Has much undone The quick will catch the prize.
James L. Nelson
#30. When you're on a sleeper at night, take your pocketbook and put it in a sock under your pillow. That way, the next morning you won't forget your pocketbook cause you'll be looking for your sock.
Ping Bodie
#31. The wind shrieks, the wind grieves; It dashes the leaves on walls, it whirls then again; And the enormous sleeper vaguely and stupidly dreams And desires to stir, to resist a ghost of pain.
Conrad Aiken
#33. I'm still pretty sick about what I've lost, but I only admit it to myself late at night, which is probably why I'm not the best sleeper.
Nick Hornby
#34. So the captain came to him, and said to him, "What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God; perhaps your God will consider us, so that we may not perish." (Jonah 1:6) Many
Val Waldeck
#35. I'm a shockingly bad sleeper. In bed very late. Awake at the crack of dawn.
Andy Serkis
#36. I'm signed to a U.S. label, and I didn't enjoy the 3 A.M. phone calls. I'm not a great sleeper, so I didn't enjoy being woken up.
Estelle
#37. A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But a lot of it is imagination. It's not based on real people.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#38. Uneasy sleeper you will live to see the city of your birth pulled down to the last stone.
Cormac McCarthy
#39. I'm the lightest sleeper. I can hear a pin drop. It's been worse since I was ill. I think your inner ear is always half open, listening out for the faintest danger sign.
Sam Taylor-Wood
#40. The infinite is a light sleeper. The moment the self awakens, the force of the infinite begins to stir.
John O'Donohue
#41. fucking prosecutor put a sleeper on the jury." I thought a moment about telling him but decided against it. "At the moment it's better if I don't tell
Michael Connelly
#42. Something like fear chilled me as I sat there in the small hours alone-I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realise.
H.P. Lovecraft
#43. This one whom habit of memory propels to the ground of his making,
sleeper only the mortal sounds can sing awake,
this blessing love gives again into our arms.
Galway Kinnell
#44. In troubled times, one wishes for a sound sleep more than usual, but on the contrary, realizing its amplified importance, sleep smugly impedes all attempts to woo it.
Pawan Mishra
#45. To sit here at the same table with my hero, George W. Bush ... I feel like I'm dreaming. Somebody pinch me. You now what, I'm a pretty sound sleeper, that may not be enough ... Somebody shoot me in the face.
Stephen Colbert
#46. Be thou glad sleeper and thy sorrow offcast. I am the gate to all good adventure.
C.S. Lewis
#47. The wave paused, and then drew out again, sighing like a sleeper whose breath comes and goes unconsciously.
Virginia Woolf
#48. I'm the world's lightest sleeper. On a bad day, I can make Lady Macbeth look like a raging narcoleptic.
Jodi Taylor
#49. Anticipating a boomerang child seems the odds-on thing to do. Think about furnishing - hello, sleeper sofa - with this in mind.
Jean Chatzky
#50. I would love to be a sleeper, but I'm not. I'm usually up pretty early, even if I've been out the night before.
Lily Donaldson
#51. A sleeper just waits and when the time is right, they come out and wow everyone. That's you, kiddo. Don't you worry.
Ronda Rousey
#52. The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
Anthony De Mello
