Sleep Quotes
-
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.
-
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.
-
I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.
-
Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his sight whose breath touches my sleep?
-
People have written about 'Sleep' as if it were some kind of record attempt, but I could just put repeat marks at the end, and it would be 16 hours. It's not about that.
-
Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!
-
The Egyptians saw the sun and called him Ra, the Sun God. He rode across the sky in his chariot until it was time to sleep. Copernicus and Galileo proved otherwise, and poor Ra lost his divinity.
-
The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.
-
I tend to sleep a lot.
-
I'd like to be a dog. Dogs are nice. They can sleep any time, they wag their tails and on top of that they can get stroked all the time.
-
Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
-
... As to sleep, you know, I never sleep now. I might be a Watchman, except that I don't get any pay, and he's got nothing on his mind.
-
If we sleep more than is needful for the refreshment of the body, it is wasting the time with which the Lord has entrusted us as a talent, to be used for his glory, for our own benefit, and the benefit of the saints and the unbelievers around us.
-
When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, suddenly I meet your face.
-
I can sleep anywhere. I'm like an infant.
-
Childhood is the sleep of reason. [Fr., L'enfance est le sommeil de la raison.]
-
I once went a whole summer without seeing the sun. I would play all night, then sleep all day.
-
But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away. I understood those mermaids. I didn't care if they sang to me. All I wanted was to block out all the human voices as they called me name again and again, pulling me upward into light, to drown.
-
I may be a sleeping politician. But one should know that a sleeping politician is always awake about national politics. I am not like politicians who sleep on national issues though they may be awake physically.
-
Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight.
-
I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose.
-
I'm in bed by 10, but I may not actually go to sleep until 11. It doesn't take long. I just breathe in and out maybe 10 times, and that does it.
-
People are impressed with me - because I can sleep for just 45 minutes - I'm used to it.
-
The man was allergic to sleep.
