Sleep Quotes
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If he wants breakfast in bed, tell him to sleep in the kitchen.
Kathy Lette
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So she won’t sleep better alone, And he won’t sleep better alone, No they won’t feel better alone.
Pete Yorn
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Come, blessed barrier between day and day,
Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!
William Wordsworth
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The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.
Sophocles
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I had a new idea in my head... this time it's just simply my bedroom, only here colour is to do everything, and, giving by its simplification a grander style to things, is to be suggestive here of rest or of sleep in general. In a word, to look at the picture ought to rest the brain or rather the imagination.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Childhood is the sleep of reason.
[Fr., L'enfance est le sommeil de la raison.]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life...And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.
Betty Smith
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When I was growing up, my family was plagued by poverty. My mother, a single parent, worked around the clock to make sure her children - me, my five brothers, and three sisters - could eat and have a safe place to sleep. We hardly saw her.
Patrisse Cullors
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It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling your mind until sleep finally came.
Sarah Dessen
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Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet my axe is restless in my hand. Give me a row of orc-necks and room to swing and all weariness will fall from me!
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination -- aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines our consciousness as the sun dawns on the sleeping earth and bathes it in effulgence.
Pir Vilayat Khan
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It's during dream sleep where we start to actually take the sting out of difficult, even traumatic, emotional experiences that we've been having. And sleep almost divorces that emotional, bitter rind from the memory experiences that we've had during the day.
Matthew Walker
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He says-him as was here just now-'When Tom shut up the house, mate, to go to rack, the beds was left, all made, like as if somebody was a-going to sleep in every bed. And if you was to walk through the bedrooms now, you'd see the ragged mouldy bedclothes a heaving and a heaving like seas. And a heaving and a heaving with what?' he says. 'Why, with the rats under 'em.'
Charles Dickens
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I make a habit of setting aside some time each evening to take out my knitting and work quietly on it, happily relaxing. I believe that it prepares me for sleep and washes away the cares of my day.I will consider that intarsia, or Fair Isle with three or more colors in a row, prepares nobody for sleep and cursing loudly while flinging knitting around the living room is about as far away from soothing as you can get.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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If he could sleep on it. He would make his bed with white sheets And disappear into the white, Like a man diving, If he could be certain That the light Would not keep him awake, The light that reaches To the bottom.
Donald Justice
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Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?
Virginia Woolf
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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
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I just can't put the pressure on of winning a championship, winning a championship, because then I'd never be able to sleep.
Tyronn Lue
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My day, normally speaking, is: I go the gym in the morning, I go and work for 10 or 12 hours, I have dinner, I go to sleep.
Chris Liddell
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Light is a profound degrader of our sleep.
Matthew Walker
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Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember.
Louise Brown
