Sleep
Quotes - Sleep is such a luxury, which I can’t afford
“Do
you know what it is like,
to
lie in bed awake;
with
thoughts to haunt
you
every night,
of
all your past mistakes.
Knowing
sleep will set it right -
if
you were not to wake.”
―
Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure
“Wisdom
comes through suffering.
Trouble,
with its memories of pain,
Drips
in our hearts as we try to sleep,
So
men against their will
Learn
to practice moderation.
Favours
come to us from gods.”
―
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
“I
want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily,
in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.”
―
Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
“sleep
is such a luxury, which i cant afford.”
―
Robin Sikarwar
“It
was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that
you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like
reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped.”
―
Kim Stanley Robinson, Icehenge
“Sometimes
at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was
alive then.”
―
Albert Camus
“Daytime
sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and
yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.”
―
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
“Whoever
drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever
does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!”
―
Martin Luther
“Insomnia
is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after
the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to join
the collective nod. The insomniac brain is a sort of conspiracy theorist as
well, believing too much in its own paranoiac importance--as though if it were
to blink, then doze, the world might be overrun by some encroaching calamity,
which its obsessive musings are somehow fending off.”
―
Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn
“You're
always in a rush, or else you're too exhausted to have a proper conversation.
Soon enough, the long hours, the traveling, the broken sleep have all crept
into your being and become part of you, so everyone can see it, in your
posture, your gaze, the way you move and talk.”
―
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
“Moments
before sleep are when she feels most alive, leaping across fragments of the
day, bringing each moment into the bed with her like a child with schoolbooks
and pencils. The day seems to have no order until these times, which are like a
ledger for her, her body full of stories and situations.”
―
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
“I
don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in
bed when I am up, maddens me.”
― Jerome
K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
“Gabe?"
The
newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him.
"There
could be love", Jonas whispered.”
―
Lois Lowry, The Giver
“Am
I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.”
―
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“The
‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are
those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think
of when you first awake.”
―
Roman Payne
“I
make love with a focus and intensity that most people reserve for sleep.”
―
Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
“Good
night - may you fall asleep in the arms of a dream, so beautiful, you'll cry
when you awake.”
―
Michael Faudet
“Asleep,
he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny
looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people
are younger when they are asleep.”
― S.
E. Hinton
“I
had a dream about you last night. The champagne was non-alcoholic. You didn't
notice, and laughed at my jokes anyway.”
―
Michael Summers, I Had a Dream About You
“I
had a dream about you. You were an escalator, and I was a flight of stairs. You
thought I was a Luddite, and I thought I was as ostrich, because I hadn’t
figured out how to put the fly in flight. One day you broke down, and then you
saw that you and I weren’t so different after all.”
―
Dora J. Arod, I Had a Dream About You
“I
had a dream about you. We installed Dr. Robert Jarvik’s artificial heart in a
mannequin and brought it to life, only to later kill it because a creature
that’s all fake heart and no brain is what’s commonly called a “politician,”
and must be destroyed.”
―
Dark Jar Tin Zoo, I Had a Dream About You
