Sleep
Quotes - Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people
sleep
“Sleep
is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.”
―
Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
“Yea,
all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.”
― H.
Rider Haggard, She
“Some
people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep”
―
Albert Camus
“There
is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”
―
Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
“I
am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.”
―
Sylvia Plath , The Collected Poems
“What
would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep
without dreams.”
―
Werner Herzog
“There
is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”
―
Homer, The Odyssey
“I
went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry,
thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry.
Then
I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain,
always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my
dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.”
―
Ray Bradbury, Green Shadows, White Whale
“Sleep
is God. Go worship.”
―
Jim Butcher, Death Masks
“I've
crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never
thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange
place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and then some sleepy,
early-morning talk has led me into considerations of death and annihilation.”
―
Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
“I’ve
dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one
tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh
on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I
have achieved everything.”
―
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
“A
person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance
of leaving the other half undone.”
―
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
“The
monsters were never
under
my bed.
Because
the monsters
were
inside my head.
I
fear no monsters,
for
no monsters I see.
Because
all this time
the
monster has been me.”
―
Nikita Gill
“Even
a soul submerged in sleep
is
hard at work and helps
make
something of the world.”
―
Heraclitus, Fragments
“I
think insomnia is a sign that a person is interesting.”
―
Avery Sawyer, Notes to Self
“I buried
my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't
see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”
―
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“I'd
thought once, actually, of taking your mind, if you asked. I'd thought I could
help you fall asleep at night."
He
opened his mouth to say something. Shut it again. His face closed for a moment,
his unreadable mask falling into place. He spoke softly. "But that
wouldn't be fair; for after I slept you'd be left awake, with no one to help
you sleep.”
―
Kristin Cashore, Fire
“If
a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but
there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he
will not go.”
―
Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
“Why
can I never go back to bed? Who's is the voice ringing in my head? Where is the
sense in these desperate dreams? Why should I wake when I'm half past dead?”
―
Emilie Autumn
“It's
in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're
coming out of sleep but we're not really awake yet. For those few seconds we're
something more primitive than what we are about to become. We have just slept
the sleep of our most distant ancestors, and something of them and their world
still clings to us. For those few moments we are unformed, uncivilized. We are
not the people we know as ourselves, but creatures more in tune with a tree
than a keyboard. We are untitled, unnamed, natural, suspended between was and
will be, the tadpole before the frog, the worm before the butterfly. We are for
a few brief moments, anything and everything we could be. And then...and then
-- ah -- we open our eyes and the day is before us and ... we become
ourselves.”
―
Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl
“When
action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows
unprofitable, sleep.”
―
Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness
“sleep
is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man
the
most guilty.”
―
Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
“After
sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on
a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades
we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending
our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we
have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am
surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.”
―
Richard Dawkins
