Quotes of: Sleep Keyword

The loss of one night's sleep is followed by ten days of inconvenience.

Chinese

When you have three daughters, you sleep with the door open.

Korean

Men and women sleep on the same pillow, but they have different dreams.

Mongolian

He who will not prosper in his sleep will not prosper when awake.

Traditional

One hour's sleep before midnight, is worth two after.

Traditional

You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

We are all roamers of vast spaces and travelers in many ages.

Beyond the Wall of Sleep Complete Works

I learned there were lots of realities in the world.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping.

Mary Wilson Little

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Liz Garrison: Go to sleep. Jim Garrison: Godamn it, I've been sleeping for three years.

JFK

When I go to bed at night, I wear a sleeping bag. And for a long time, I wore mittens so that I couldn't open the sleeping bag.

Mike Birbiglia

[Last lines] Trevor Reznik: Right now I wanna sleep. I just want to sleep.

The Machinist

Healthy people sleep eight hours, Wealthy people sleep four hours.

Amit Kalantri

I would have liked to catch hold of sleep at least once, just as I had been resolved to catch hold of death one day, to catch hold of the wings of the angel of sleep when it came for me, to grab it with two fingers like a butterfly after sneaking up ...

Garden, Ashes

sunset and evening star hunching and bending sleeping and slipping virus pneumonia coughing and crying hope in the small things heaven looks brighter aching and falling earth is still darkness slip into sleeping sleepings of death dead now and buried...

On Being a Rat and Other Observations

I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake. What you do...

Metropolitan Life/Social Studies

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 th...

Wide Awake and Dreaming: A Memoir

I wanted to freeze this moment forever, the chimes, the slight splash of the water, the chink of the dogs’ leashes, laughter from the pool, the skritch of my mother’s dip-pen, the smell of the trees, the stillness. I wished I could shut it in a l...

White Oleander

I am so tired; all I want to do is sleep. I want to sleep all the day, from dawn until twilight that every evening comes a little earlier and a little more drearily. In the daytime, all I can think about is sleeping. But in the night I do is try to s...

The White Princess