Quotes about sleep
sleep entrepreneur waking
Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen. Nathaniel Hawthorne
sleep self deception
Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practise an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments.
sleep angel escaping
The breath of peace was fanning her glorious brow, her head was bowed a very little forward, and a tress, escaping from its bonds, fell by the side of her pure white temple, and close to her just opened lips; it hung there motionless! no breath disturbed its repose! She slept as an angel might sleep, having accomplished the mission of her God.
sleep going-to-sleep awake
Go to sleep in peace. God is awake. Victor Hugo
sleep land borders
Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.
sleep world existence
The world of sleep has an existence of its own.
sleep men six
To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.
sleep light color
All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long time, I remained motionless, letting myself be penetrated gently by this unspeakable ensemble, by the serenity of the sky and the melancholy of the moment. I do not know what was going on in my mind, and I could not express it; it was one of those ineffable moments when one feels something in himself which is going to sleep and something which is awakening.
sleep bed supper
It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep.
sleep august paris
The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is more openly frivolous and idle, no one appears more heedless. But this is misleading. He is given to every kind of listlessness, but when there is glory to be won he may be inspired with every kind of fury. Give him a pike and he will enact the tenth of August, a musket and you have Austerlitz. He was the springboard of Napoleon and the mainstay of Danton. At the cry of "la patrie" he enrols, and at the call of liberty he tears up the pavements. Beware of him!
sleep night sky
It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.
sleep insomnia return
Sleep comes more easily than it returns.
sleep long needs
I take a deep breath. I'm not sure where that swell of desperation came from, but know that I've acknowledge it, it's impossible to ignore, like a living thing has awakened from a long sleep inside me. It writhes in my stomach and throat. I need to leave. I need the truth. Veronica Roth
sleep eye gun
Too bad you didn't just take Max up on his offer, Four. Well, too bad for you, anyway," says Eric quietly as he clicks the bullet into its chamber. My lungs burn; I haven't breathed in almost a minute. I see Tobias's hand twitch in the corner of my eye, but my hand is already on my gun. I press the barrel to Eric's forehead. His eyes widen, and his face goes slack, and for a second he looks like another sleeping Dauntless soldier. My index finger hovers over the trigger. "Get your gun away from his head," I say. "You won't shoot me," Eric replies. "Interesting theory. " I say.
sleep people want
Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.
sleep play symphony
If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not? Robert Fripp
sleep thinking years
It’s harder to talk about, but what I really, really, really want for Christmas is just this: I want to be 5 years old again for an hour. I want to laugh a lot and cry a lot. I want to be picked or rocked to sleep in someone’s arms, and carried up to be just one more time. I know what I really want for Christmas: I want my childhood back. People who think good thoughts give good gifts. Robert Fulghum
sleep miles miles-to-go
I have miles to go before I sleep... Robert Frost
sleep house politics
Trust him to have his bitter politics Against his unacquaintances the rich Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged. Conservatives, they don't know what to save.
sleep discovery long
So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep. Robert Bloch
sleep hammers way
Infants need the most sleep, and, what is more, get it. Stunning them with a soft, padded hammer is the best way to insure their getting it at the right times. Robert Benchley
sleep men gun
All men are afraid of eyelash curlers. They don't understand them, and they don't want to get near them. I sleep with one under my pillow, instead of a gun. Rita Rudner
sleep alive world
I love to sleep. Do you? Isn't it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious.
sleep water routine
My beauty routine is basically plenty of sleep and lots of water. Rebecca Gayheart
sleep eight water
I drink at least five bottles of water a day and always get eight hours of sleep.
sleep littles poor
The poor sleep little. Thomas Otway
sleep trying bed
Sleep is a death, O make me try By sleeping, what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. Thomas Browne
sleep night men
Be deaf unto the suggestions of tale-bearers, calumniators, pick-thank or malevolent detractors, who, while quiet men sleep, sowing the tares of discord and division, distract the tranquillity of charity and all friendly society. These are the tongues that set the world on fire--cankerers of reputation, and, like that of Jonah's gourd, wither a good name in a single night.
sleep arrows evil
To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of our foes, and to resolve to sleep no more.
sleep house waking
We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.
sleep fighting awake
Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight. Thomas R. Marshall
sleep eye noses
I never take any notice of reviews-unless a critic has thought up some new way of describing me. That old one about my lizard eyes and anteater nose and the way I sleep my way through pictures is so hackneyed now. Robert Mitchum
sleep advice problem
Never sleep with anybody who has more problems than you do. Robert McKee