Sleep Quotes - Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts
“The
Waking
I
wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I
feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I
learn by going where I have to go.
We
think by feeling. What is there to know?
I
hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I
wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of
those so close beside me, which are you?
God
bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And
learn by going where I have to go.
Light
takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The
lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I
wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great
Nature has another thing to do
To
you and me, so take the lively air,
And,
lovely, learn by going where to go.
This
shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What
falls away is always. And is near.
I
wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I
learn by going where I have to go.”
―
Theodore Roethke, The Collected Poems
“Sleep
is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.”
―
Christopher Pike
“No
book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump
out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.”
―
Bohumil Hrabal, Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
“The
main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.”
―
E. M. Forster
“I'm
an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.”
―
Pete Wentz, Gray
“There
is no such thing as a good call at 7 AM. It's been my experience that all calls
between the hours of 11 PM and 9 AM are disaster calls.”
―
Janet Evanovich
“In
the old days, before I was married, or knew a lot of women, I would just pull
down all the shades and go to bed for three or four days. I'd get up to shit.
I'd eat a can of beans, go back to bed, just stay there for three or four days.
Then I'd put on my clothes and I'd walk outside, and the sunlight was
brilliant, and the sounds were great. I felt powerful, like a recharged
battery. But you know the first bring-down? The first human face I saw on the
sidewalk, I lost half my charge right there.”
―
Charles Bukowski, Charles Bukowski: Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and
Encounters 1963-1993
“Insomnia
I
cannot get to sleep tonight.
I
toss and turn and flop.
I
try to count some fluffy sheep
while
o'er a fence they hop.
I
try to think of pleasant dreams
of
places really cool.
I
don't know why I cannot sleep -
I
slept just fine at school.”
―
Kathy Kenney-Marshall
“Put
my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed
to be.”
―
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Sleep
that knits up the raveled sleave of care,
The
death of each day's life, sore labor's bath,
Balm
of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief
nourisher in life's feast.”
―
William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“One
of the Georges - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hours'
sleep each night - I cannot recall at the moment how many - made a man
something which for the time being has slipped my memory.”
―
P.G. Wodehouse, Mike and Psmith
“Also,
I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot
sleep, you cannot get yourself out of the ditch--there's not a chance.”
―
Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
“He
was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left
side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a
third side after trying the two he has.”
―
Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin
“Sonnet
LXXXI
And
now you're mine. Rest with your dream in my dream.
Love
and pain and work should all sleep, now.
The
night turns on its invisible wheels,
and
you are pure beside me as a sleeping ember.
No
one else, Love, will sleep in my dreams. You will go,
we
will go together, over the waters of time.
No
one else will travel through the shadows with me,
only
you, evergreen, ever sun, ever moon.
Your
hands have already opened their delicate fists
and
let their soft drifting signs drop away;
your
eyes closed like two gray wings, and I move
after,
following the folding water you carry, that carries
me
away. The night, the world, the wind spin out their destiny.
Without
you, I am your dream, only that, and that is all.”
―
Pablo Neruda
“If
men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . .
Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should
feel the same about their lives.”
―
Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come
“I
had a dream about you last night... you were a giant slinky and I watched you
fall down the stairs.”
―
Amy Summers, I Had a Dream About You
“Alexander
the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I
cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.”
