“When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep. When I was supposed to sleep, I was silent. When a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it.”

— Susanna Kaysen , book Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

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American writer 1948

Rymin

This quote is from "Pink" by "Rymin" and the original words are in Persian.
Source: https://soundcloud.com/rymiin/pink

“Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading.”

Germaine Greer (1939) Australian feminist author

“I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.”

René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

No source in Hemingway's works has been found. May have originated in a 2000 post to the Usenet group alt.support.depression. link https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/alt.support.depression/wYH4aCNHyp4/_d50yuXTeHsJ
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“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”

Andy Warhol book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Variant: 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.
Source: 1975, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), Ch. 6: Work
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Context: 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. Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.