Quotes about Sleep

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The man himself lay in the bed. For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin. The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him.

In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep you are not. And when you are filled with sleep you never were.

With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea who live too close to each other and too close thereby to all that is monstrous under the sun and moon.

I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

At this grim hour, the world sleeps in the darkness, and the Church sleeps in the light;

I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.

The young are in great danger. Much evil results from their light and trifling reading. Much time is lost which should be spent in useful employment. Some would even deprive themselves of sleep that they might finish some ridiculous love story.

Work like an Arminian, sleep like a Calvinist.

When you're in bed and unable to sleep, the best thing to do is to go back to your breathing.

Many things — such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly — are done worst when we try hardest to do them.