Quotes about sleep
sleep insomnia people
I only sleep with people I love, which is why I have insomnia. Emilie Autumn
sleep men evil
In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world. Emile M. Cioran
sleep animal insomnia
The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot.
sleep tragedy sitting
I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.
sleep hard-work bed
I work hard, I work late, I have nothing on my conscience. When I go to bed, I sleep. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
sleep way ifs
If women can sleep their way to the top, how come they aren't there? Ellen Goodman
sleep jewels wind
I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T will keep." I woke and chid my honest fingers,— The gem was gone; And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own. Emily Dickinson
sleep sunshine long
Haven't laughed this hard in a long time. I better stop now before I start crying. Go off to sleep in the sunshine...I don't want to see the day when its dying. Elliott Smith
sleep years fake
I can't get married. I can't fake sleep for 30 years. Elayne Boosler
sleep forever world
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
sleep self hands
What a wonderful sleep it had been! Never had sleep so refreshed him, so renewed him, so rejuvenated him! Perhaps he had really died, perhaps he had been drowned and was reborn in another form. No, he recognized himself, he recognized his hands and feet, the place where he lay and the Self in his breast, Siddhartha, self-willed, individualistic. But this Siddhartha was somewhat changed, renewed. He had slept wonderfully. He was remarkably awake, happy and curious.
sleep past hands
The shadow by my finger cast Divides the future from the past: Before it, sleeps the unborn hour, In darkness, and beyond thy power. Behind its unreturning line, The vanished hour, no longer thine: One hour alone is in thy hands,- The NOW on which the shadow stands. Henry Van Dyke
sleep dust wind
The trees are white with dust, that o'er their sleep Wave their broad curtains in the south-wind's breath, While underneath such leafy tents they keep The long, mysterious Exodus of Death. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
sleep night silent
Be thy sleep Silent as night is, and as deep.
sleep sight delight
All sense of hearing and of sight enfold in the serene delight and quietude of sleep.
sleep night people
I tell myself it's a virtue, my failure to sleep in my own house, or at all. I tell myself that I spend more hours than most people aware that I am alive, and that over a lifetime this adds up to more living, more aliveness. I am more alive than the rest of my family. Which is my greatest night fear. Which is why I hunt. I don't ever want to be more alive than they are. Heidi Julavits
sleep years eight
I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep. Heston Blumenthal
sleep home able
SUCCESS is being able to come home, lay your head on the pillow and SLEEP in PEACE. Herschel Walker
sleep opportunity perspective
As we abide in sleep, intuitively resonating with the sum of all our experiences - this life and beyond - we gain refreshing perspective on our efforts and have an opportunity to remember what we know. Henry Reed
sleep work-out determined
I am basically working 7 days a week. When I am not eating, sleeping, or working out, I am working on one of projects which I am just damned determined to finish. Henry Rollins
sleep born
Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth The best of all were never to be born. Heinrich Heine
sleep thinking night
Thinking of Germany in the night robs me of my sleep.
sleep miracle lovely
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
sleep atheism born
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
sleep waking world
The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own Heraclitus
sleep insomnia goes-on
Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.
sleep soul world
Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.
sleep night men
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil. Henry Ward Beecher
sleep sweat roots
What happens: events interiors, snatch them from the cradle, from the source. I want to watch watching arrive. I want to watch arrivances. I want to find the root of needing to eat. And taste it: work of sweat / sleep. Helene Cixous
sleep auditions euthanasia
Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know? Helena Bonham Carter
sleep writing giving
My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
sleep noble aristocracy
All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
sleep earth ripeness
Even while the Earth sleeps we travel. Khalil Gibran