Quotes with sleep

  • I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
  • Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
  • What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.
  • I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
  • It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe -you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
  • My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.
  • Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
  • All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
  • A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
  • Rise like lions after slumber in invanquishable number - Shake your chains to earth like dew which in sleep had fallen on you - ye are many - they are few.
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  • Fran Lebowitz Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Aeschylus And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Victor Hugo Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Joel Rosenberg I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.
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  • Anne Tyler I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • William Archer One of the first and most important things for a critic to learn is how to sleep undetected in the theater.
    William Archer
    Scottish writer and theatre critic (1856 - 1924)
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  • Francis Bacon To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • H. Youngman If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.
    H. Youngman
    American comedian and violinist (1906 - 1998)
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  • Andrew Matthews A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.
    Andrew Matthews
    Australian speaker and author of self-help books (1957 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • W. H. Auden A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Alan Jay Lerner A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.
    Alan Jay Lerner
    American film screenwriter (1918 - 1986)
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  • Alan Jay Lerner A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.
    Alan Jay Lerner
    American screenwriter and songwriter (1918 - 1986)
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  • Albert Hofmann After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn.
    Albert Hofmann
     
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Lewis Carroll And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Joan Didion Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it...Somehow the book doesn't leave you when you're asleep right next to it.
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    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Billy Gardell As a comic, I've heard gunshots while I'm trying to get to sleep. I've performed where people wanted to do you harm after the show because of something you said.
    Billy Gardell
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1969 - )
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