Sleeping Quotes

Men are vile creatures, really. using women up, casting them aside. Leaving them along and broken, Better to leave them first, isn't it? Better yet to pay them back, and leave them bleeding,Sick and tired of being the one left behind, aren't you? And all the fighting, all the death. I can help you with that. I'd so like to help you.

~ Dance Of The Gods

Walking through a deserted city in the hours before dawn is sobering way beyond the undoing of the effects of alcohol. Every thing is familiar, and everything is strange. It's as if you are the only survivor of some mysterious calamity which has emptied the place of its population, and yet you know that behind the shuttered and curtained windows people lie sleeping in their tens of thousands, and all their joys and disasters lie sleeping too. It makes you think of your own life, usually suspended at that hour, and how you are passing through it as if in a dream. Reality seems very unreal.

~ James Robertson

The night was so balmy that breathing ceased to be a habitual sensation, becoming much closer to something like the gaseous ingestion of a mango, the velvet caress of a hand or the soft skin of a fresh peach. Sleeping, lying down or sitting up, was, on that night, a divine human penitence, a miracle unexpected and unrealized, intuitive and peaceful in a unique opportunity.

~ Ondjaki

With night's Dim veil and blue I will cover my eyes, I will bind close my eyes that are So weary.

~ Adelaide Crapsey

Even when I'm sleeping, I go to places where you are.

~ Crystal Woods

Fucking nightmares.My heart starts to slow down. Glancing down at the floor, I see Tybalt, who is glaring at me with a puffed-up tail. I wonder if he had been sleeping on my chest and I catapulted him off when I woke up. I don't remember, but I wish that I did, because it would've been hilarious.

~ Kendare Blake

Who worries for dying? If I close my eyes tonight, I will either dream, or not, or my eyes will open and I will be here again. And if none of those happen, and I do not wake? Who worries for dying?

~ Roman Payne

Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps.We have time to grow old.The air is full of our cries.But habit is a great deadener.At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing.Let him sleep on.

~ Samuel Beckett

All the means we've been given to stay alert we use to ornament our sleep. If instead of endlessly inventing new ways to make life more comfortable we'd apply our ingenuity to fabricating instruments to jog man out of his torpor!

~ René Daumal

Perhaps that is what I like about these moments of leisurely insight, that come while lying comfortably in the beautiful in-between state of sleeping and waking, dreaming and doing, in which anything is possible and everything is lovely.

~ Kayla Severson

Nothing happened today. I slept. While asleep I dreamed that I was sleeping.

~ José Eduardo Agualusa

Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly insane every night of out lives.

~ William Dement

We live in an era that sleeping with an individual is easier than loving.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

The blood is sleeping. But the desire of feeling my own senses has grown deep, filled with an unstoppable tremendous drive to eliminate the lifeless stuff, which has gotten chained to me and lulled me to sleep.The rivers of my veins start to flow more and more powerful in every unit of time like lava underground!

~ Anna Asche

Sleeping on it didn't make accepting it any easier. It seemed like a really bad dream.

~ Abbi Glines

I have sometimes thought that the reason the trees are so quiet in the summer is that they are in a sort of ecstasy; it is in winter, when the biologists tell us they sleep, that they are most awake, because the sun is gone and they are addicts without their drug, sleeping restlessly and often waking, walking the dark corridors of forests searching for the sun.

~ Gene Wolfe

Stay the night, said the officer, patting a confiscated couch. I'll keep my hands off you. I promise.You have more than hands, said Elie.My feet are safe, too, said the officer. He pointed to a hole in his boots, and they laughed.

~ Thaisa Frank

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.

~ Tupac Shakur

Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.

~ Usher

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

~ Isoroku Yamamoto

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing.

~ Jennifer Love Hewitt

There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.

~ Ben Affleck

I am fed up with men who use sex like a sleeping pill.

~ Toni Braxton

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

~ Mark Twain