Quotes of: Sleep Keyword

If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!

Night Flight

I sleep with the lights on now. Not because I’m afraid of the dark, but because I like to keep the night as far away as I can.

Nightwalkers

Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

The Name of the Rose

He takes a few dazed steps, the waiters turn out the lights and he slips into unconsciousness: when this man is lonely he sleeps.

Nausea

You will stay with me. You will sleep here at my side and you will touch me. I am depressed but not when you stroke my chest.

Obsidian

I make love with a focus and intensity that most people reserve for sleep. 

Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

Seven a.m. on the first day of summer vacation was, to her mind, a dangerous time to be awake. Even God had to be sleeping in.

Luisa Across the Bay

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

The Left Hand of Darkness

I waste so much time sleeping. And time is of all losses the most irrecuperable, for it can never be redeemed.

The Lady Elizabeth

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

A Lion Among Men

How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.

Lady Oracle

I wish my brain had an off switch. Maybe that way I could get some sleep.

The Little Silkworm

Sleep's what we need. It produces an emptiness in us into which sooner or later energies flow.

M: Writings '67-'72

Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun.

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.

Mockingjay

Sleep doesn't come easy when a broken twig conjures images of a hulking mental patient snapping the arms off children, over by the bin.

The Squirrel that Dreamt of Madness

Besides, she was alone and those who drink alone, she decided, had no need of any impediments to the pure act of consumption.

Sleeping Partners

I am stone and steel of your sleeping numbers; I remember all you forget. I will die as many times as you make me over again.

Selected Poems

He looks like an angel, sings like an angel. He found my breaking heart and coaxed it into a new rhythm.

Sing Me to Sleep

If you're only using your bed for sleep, then don't bother waking up.

Sexscopes: How to Seduce, Stimulate, and Satisfy Any Sign

Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.

A Storm of Swords