Sleep
Quotes - Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life
“Every
time I go to sleep, I know I may never wake up. How could anyone expect to? You
drop your tiny, helpless mind into a bottomless well, crossing your fingers and
hoping when you pull it out on its flimsy fishing wire it hasn't been gnawed to
bones by nameless beasts below.”
―
Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
“The
alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini
conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent
version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly
7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face.”
―
Stephen Fry
“Before
you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.”
―
Desiderius Erasmus
“So
I've started wearing sweatpants to bed because I really don't need Santa seeing
me in my underwear.”
―
Jeff Kinney, Cabin Fever
“The
best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.”
―
W.C. Fields
“It
was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the
work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.”
―
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“To
break free from this vexatious and awful never-ending cycle, this flood of
outrageous thoughts, and to long for nothing more than simply to sleep--how
clean, how pure, the mere thought of it is exhilarating.”
―
Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl
“Its
hard to stay up. Its been a long long day
And
you've got the sandman at your door.
But
hang on, leave the TV on and lets do it anyway.
Its
ok.
You
can always sleep through work tomorrow. Ok?
Hey,
Hey, Tomorrow's just your future yesterday.
Tell
the clock on the wall, "Forget the wake up call."
Cause
the night's not nearly through.
Wipe
the sleep from your eyes. Give yourself a surprise.
Let
your worries wait another day.
And
if you stay too late at the bar,
At
least you made it out this far.
So
make up your mind and say, "Let's do it anyway!"
Its
Ok
You
can always sleep through work tomorrow, ok?
Hey,
Hey, Tomorrow's just your future yesterday.
Life's
too short to worry about
the
things that you can live without
And
I regret to say,
the
morning light is hours away.
The
world can be such a fright,
But
it belongs to us tonight.
What's
the point of going to bed?
You
look so lovely when your eyes are red.
Tomorrow's
just your future yesterday.”
―
Craig Ferguson
“I
was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But
then summer passed and winter came and I fell short for safety. I fell for its
spell, slowly humming me to sleep, because I was tired and small, too weak to
take or handle those opinions and views, attacking me from every angle. Against
my art, against my self, against my very way of living. I collected my
thoughts, my few possessions and built isolated walls around my values and
character. I protected my own definition of beauty and success like a treasure
at the bottom of the sea, for no one saw what I saw, or felt the same as I did,
and so I wanted to keep to myself.
You
hide to protect yourself.”
―
Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving
& Arriving
“Be
ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to
your ordinary life introduce God into your ordinary life. Sleep, eat, love,
pray, meditate, but don’t think that you are making or doing something
special—and then you will be special.”
―
Osho
“I
had a dream about you last night.. you were holding a pine cone and introducing
him as Gerald.”
―
Nicole McKay, I Had a Dream About You
“I
had a dream about you. You were lost in a daydream, when I walked in and you
began screaming. But I know that could never actually happen. In real life I
only enter people’s nightmares.”
―
Bauvard, I Had a Dream About You
“I
had a dream about you. I was sitting on your couch, relating my succession of
ideas on subconscious influence. I asked you what they meant, and you told me
that free associations were a bad way to advance my political career.”
―
Bauvard, I Had a Dream About You
“When
you go,
if
you go,
And
I should want to die,
there's
nothing I'd be saved by
more
than the time
you
fell asleep in my arms
in
a trust so gentle
I
let the darkening room
drink
up the evening, till
rest,
or the new rain
lightly
roused you awake.
I
asked if you heard the rain in your dream
and
half dreaming still you only said, I love you.”
―
Edwin Morgan, New Selected Poems
“Dreaming
permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night.”
―
Charles Fisher
“God's
creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.”
―
Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
“I
love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is
in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate
protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being
awake. What you don't know won't hurt you. Sleep is death without the
responsibility.”
―
Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life/Social Studies
“Evil
in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should.”
―
Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter,
Witch
