Sleep Quotes

Hasn't it dawned on your twilight mind,even in the seconds span of a falling star, that you might be missing something more than your sleep?

~ Heather Johann

It is at night when sleep like the outgoing sea leaves you dry and cold and the morning light arrives like a small punishment.

~ Chloe Thurlow

I got to bed later than mostPeople to see the moon in the night sky.And wake up earlier than most people to watch the Sunrise.

~ Bed

I devised a test.I turned off the TV and instantly the snoring stopped. She began to move. When I felt her eyes about to open, I turned the TV back on and back to sleep she went. Then I'd turn it off and on - sometimes for millisecond - and she never failed me. Each time it was off, she's move and mutter - each time it was on, she'd sleep.By the time the headlights from Amy's Nova turned into our driveway, my suspicion had been confirmed. My mother has a more intimate, connected relationship with this television than she has ever had with me.

~ Peter Hedges

Sleep is a shallow death we practice every night.

~ Lydia Netzer

He calmed himself, shut his eyes, and fell asleep. The rear light of consciousness, like the last express train of the night, began to fade into the distance, gradually speeding up, growing smaller until it was, finally, sucked into the depths of night, where it disappeared. All that remained was the sound of the wind slipping through a stand of white birch trees.

~ Haruki Murakami

In all well-organised brains, the predominating idea—and there always is one—is sure to be the last thought before sleeping, and the first upon waking in the morning. Andrea had scarcely opened his eyes when his predominating idea presented itself, and whispered in his ear that he had slept too long.

~ Alexandre Dumas

Sleep is a kind of peace, and I have not yet earned peace.

~ Dean Koontz

I only wake to fall asleepAnd sleep, to awake without end.

~ Konstantin Batyushkov

It was not a bed with curtains, but a bed with doors like shutters. This may not seem like a nice way of having a bed, but we would all be glad of the wooden curtains about us at night if we lived in such a cottage, on the side of a hill along which the wind swept like a wild river. Through the cottage it would be streaming all night long. And a poor woman with a cough, or a man who has been out in the cold all day, is very glad of such a place to lie in, and leave the the rest of the house to the wind and the fairies.

~ George Macdonald

Jim looks out the car window with his nose pressed to the glass. Sometimes he pretends to be asleep. Not because he is tired, but because he needs to be quiet.

~ Rachel Joyce

Bedtime is fraught with fear and disappointment. When it is just me alone with my restless body and mind, I feel like the whole world is asleep and gone. It's very lonely. I am tired of being tired and talking about how tired I am.

~ Amy Poehler

Long ago you were a dream in your mother's sleep, and then she awoke to give you birth.

~ Kahlil Gibran

His impatience for sleep often frightened that very sleep away.

~ Hugh Howey

May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man devises, can keep me from the chasm of sleep. Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but with him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore.

~ H.p. Lovecraft

Man's inability to get out of bed in the morning is a curious thing. One may reason with oneself clearly and forcibly without the slightest effect. One knows that delay means inconvenience. Perhaps it may spoil one's whole day. And one also knows that a single resolute heave will do the trick. But logic is of no use. One simply lies there.

~ P.g. Wodehouse

Shake off this downy sleep, death’s counterfeit,And look on death itself!

~ William Shakespeare

In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Ironically, just when she needed to get as much sleep as possible to prepare her for the next few days, her excited anticipation kept her awake long into the night.

~ Emily Arden

Asta Sollilja slept on, her head in the corner, mouth open, chin up, and head back, with one hand under her ear and the other half-open on the coverlet as if she thought in her sleep that someone would come and lay happiness in her palm.

~ Halldór Laxness

My WHY is always greater than my SLEEP.

~ Sivaprakash Sidhu

I have thought the difference might be that my Mary knows she will live forever, that she will step from the living into another life as easily as she slips from sleep to wakefulness. She knows this with her whole body, so completely that she does not think of it any more than she thinks to breathe. Thus she has time to sleep, time to rest, time to cease to exist for a little.

~ John Steinbeck

The last thing she remembered before finally drifting off was how nice Steffi's hair smelled.

~ Kim Baldwin

I am a fading phantasmagoria. Time has left me in partial glory.

~ Fidelis O. Mkparu

Sometimes I wake up and think... 'I was asleep.

~ Rebecca Hurley

One of the most frequent sins of omission is the failure to get adequate rest.

~ James Macdonald

For me, sleep equaled death. How was closing your eyes and losing consciousness any different from death? What separated temporary loss of consciousness from permanent obliteration?

~ Lena Dunham

I decided to stay in bed until noon. Maybe by then half the world would be dead and it would only be half as hard to take.

~ Charles Bukowski

You can’t imagine the white-hot fury someone who can’t sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.

~ Karen Joy Fowler

Are you always so cynical?' said Angelica.'No,' said Katherine. 'Sometimes I'm asleep.

~ Sam Byers

You drool in your sleep- Annabeth Chase

~ Rick Riordan

We both fell asleep wrapped up together with the wolves still lullaby-ing us in the background

~ April Genevieve Tucholke

A beautiful nap this afternoon that put velvet between my vertebrae.

~ Henry Miller

We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course of our existence.

~ Marcel Proust

I’m awake and I can’t sleep. The more I’m awake, the more I see, and the harder to sleep.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

In a while, her eyes felt leaden and she felt sleep overpower her, even as she fought to keep her eyes open. In vain, I tried to churn within her, a little nugget of fear, trying desperately to warn her of impending danger.

~ Deepti Menon

I spent many a charming evening talking and playing with Albertine, but none so sweet as when I was watching her sleep.

~ Marcel Proust

It's just I'd rather sleep through the days so I'll be awake for the nights, when the boys are out.

~ Kerry Cohen

Normally, it takes people about 60 to 90 minutes to reach REM sleep, so they wouldn’t enter this stage during a 20 minute nap. People with narcolepsy often enter REM sleep soon after falling asleep. If a person enters REM sleep in two or more of the five naps in eight minutes or less during the study, it’s highly suggestive of narcolepsy.

~ Julie Flygare

James was sixteen, Cam seventeen, perhaps. She had looked round for someone who was not there, for Mrs. Ramsay, presumably. But there was only kind Mrs. Beckwith turning over her sketches under the lamp. Then, being tired, her mind still rising and falling with the sea, the taste and smell that places have after long absence possessing her, the candles wavering in her eyes, she had lost herself and gone under. It was a wonderful night, starlit; the waves sounded as they went upstairs; the moon surprised them, enormous, pale, as they passed the staircase window. She had slept at once.

~ Virginia Woolf