SLEEP QUOTES III

quotations about sleep

Sleep quote

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

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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


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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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


The brain's sleep cycle -- comprised of deep and light sleep stages -- probably played a role in our survival as a species. Most species have this sleep cycle -- it may have served some vigilance-type function. Every 90 minutes or so, you come into light sleep and you're much more responsive to the environment and just awake for a few minutes to check out that everything's still OK, and that there's no danger. Having that type of sleep pattern across the night may have helped to increase our chances of survival. If the sabre-toothed tiger came into your cave at night and you came out of deep sleep, you would probably respond more slowly. If our whole sleep period were deep sleep, then we would be more vulnerable to any environmental changes that may occur.

LEON LACK

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


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"


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

AUDREY NIFFENEGGER

The Time Traveler's Wife


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"


I'm not a very good sleeper. But you know what? I'm willing to put in a few extra hours every day to get better. That's just the kind of hard worker I am.

JAROD KINTZ

Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You


I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That's why I'm trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.

STEPHEN CHBOSKY

The Perks of Being a Wallflower


How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.

BRAM STOKER

Dracula

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Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

HERMAN MELVILLE

Moby Dick

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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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Sleep delays my life (get up, get up)

R.E.M.

"Get Up"

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Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep;
If I should die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take.

ANONYMOUS


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"


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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I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.

DON DELILLO

Underworld

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A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

CHARLOTTE BRONTË

The Professor

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As you make your bed, so you will sleep.

SWEDISH PROVERB

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