SLEEP QUOTES II

quotations about sleep

Sleep quote

Thee are the spells that to kind sleep invite,
And nothing does within resistance make,
Which yet we moderately take;
Who would not choose to be awake.

ABRAHAM COWLEY

The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley


Close your eyes and you will see
Microflashing neon lights
Open your eyes and you will see
It still looks like the same thing
Lie and wait for sleep and listen
To your heart beat too fast for sleep
Close your eyes and you will see
The sound-a-sleep

BLONDIE

"Sound Asleep"


The great modification which the act of awakening effects in us is not so much that of ushering us into the clear life of consciousness, as that of making us lose all memory of the slightly more diffused light in which our mind had been resting, as in the opaline depths of the sea. The tide of thought, half veiled from our perception, on which we were still drifting a moment ago, kept us in a state of motion perfectly sufficient to enable us to refer to it by the name of wakefulness. But then our actual awakenings produce an interruption of memory. A little later we describe these states as sleep because we no longer remember them.

MARCEL PROUST

The Guermantes Way

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Even sleep is characteristic. How charming are children in their lovely innocence! How angel-like their blooming hue! How painful and anxious is the sleep and expression in the countenance of the guilty!

KARL WILHELM HUMBOLDT

attributed, Day's Collacon


Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

AUDREY NIFFENEGGER

The Time Traveler's Wife


Sleep comes like a drug in God's country
Sad eyes, crooked crosses, in God's country
Set me alight, we'll punch a hole right through the night.
Every day the dreamers die to see what's on the other side.

U2

"In God's Country"

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Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.

BIBLE

Ephesians 5:14

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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

JOHN STEINBECK

Sweet Thursday

Tags: John Steinbeck


Loved Sleep! methinks I feel thee o'er me hover,
Thy seraph wings expanding to descend:
They fan me now, their balmy wavings blend
Along my brow; strange elf-light things come over
My fancied sight: now thought's unmeaning train
Runs through my mind; and, like a spell-bound lover,
I am enslaved with a bewitching chain--
Loved Sleep!

ROBERT LEIGHTON

"To Sleep"


Sleep is so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.

THOMAS BROWNE

Religio Medici

Tags: Sir Thomas Browne


Blessed sleep, kindest minister to man,
Sure and silent distiller of the balm of rest,
Having alone the power, when naught else can,
To soothe the torn and sorrow-ridden breast.

JAMES WELDON JOHNSON

"Blessed Sleep"


Our sleep is like a rollercoaster going through 90 minutes of sleep cycles, starting in deep sleep and then light sleep ... going across the night. That deep sleep stage is the period where the conscious part of the brain -- the upper part of the brain -- is least activated. If you wake up and are quite confused as to what time it is, where you are, or who your friend is that just woke you up, you're likely to have woken up out of the deeper stages of sleep.

LEON LACK

"Sleep is like a rollercoaster which may contribute to waking up confused", ABC News, August 11, 2017


My bones wish to escape
And run along an alien expanse
To collapse from the heat
In a cartoonish heap
To sleep oh to sleep

SPARKLEHORSE

"Box of Stars"


To sleep! perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Hamlet

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Sleep delays my life (get up, get up)

R.E.M.

"Get Up"

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Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied with intervals of insensibility; and some late philosophers have extended the empire of sleep over the vegetable world.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

The Idler, November 25, 1758

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There, in the depths of sleep, is the communion of the living and the dead.

GENNADY AYGI

Veronica's Book


A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

CHARLOTTE BRONTË

The Professor

Tags: Charlotte Brontë


Sleep of seven lights upon you
Sleep of seven joys
Sleep of seven slumbers on you
In your easy poise
You are home this night
Home of stillness
Your home of spirit
Being and bliss

DONOVAN

"Sleep"


Far from a passive state of being dead-to-the-world, sleep is part of a complex neurological rhythm that we can condition ourselves to. Much as an exercise regime conditions the muscles, establishing a sleep routine trains the brain to undo the stresses of the day.

RICHARD E. CYTOWIC

"Four Ways to More Restful Sleep", Psychology Today, August 24, 2017